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Washington DC jobs in education may soon pay better than anywhere else in the nation. Union representatives and school officials are currently going over two different salary options, one of which gives area teachers with five years of experience the possibility to make as much as $100,000 between wages and bonuses. The average educator in America receives a salary around $47,600 a year.

That being said, the discussed change in pay may possibly cause DC teachers to lose their tenure. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee believes that the best way to fix the metro’s floundering education system is by increasing teacher accountability. She believes that the current seniority system protects ineffective educators from being fired.

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With the influx of social networking sites among generation Y, employers are beginning to scour potential employees’ profiles as a sort of new-age background check.

According to a Privacy Rights Clearinghouse article by Donald Carrington Davis, social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook have changed the way Americans socialize.

“Employers have begun to tap into these online communities as a simple and inexpensive way to perform background checks on candidates,” he states. “However, a number of problems arise when employers base adverse employment decisions upon information obtained through these online searches.”

Davis says profile searches can lead to unfair employment decisions because of inaccurate, irrelevant or false information. There also is a lack of accountability when searching these sites, tempting employers to make illegal hiring decisions, and employer searches of online sites can violate a potential employee’s right to privacy.

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Throughout America the retail industry is feeling the indirect hit from skyrocketing gas prices and falling property values. With the economy as unstable as it is, people simply aren’t making as many purchases as they would be if the situation was better. Because of this, many retailers in the area have scaled back the number of Baltimore jobs they provide. The lack of available retail positions has made it more difficult for those who specialize in this industry to find jobs.

Although retailers as a whole are suffering, certain areas of the industry aren’t feeling the backlash of consumers’ belt tightening as strongly as others. Those that deal in discount merchandise and goods necessary to daily life continue to stay above water, making these employers the first places someone looking for a Baltimore job in retail should go.

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