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Stimulus package to create 400,000 jobs: Think-tank (Canada.com)

A one-year fiscal stimulus package worth almost $33 billion that bolsters employment-insurance benefits, municipal infrastructure, training and post-secondary education, and promises to create more than 400,000 jobs, is being proposed Tuesday by an economic think-tank.

Aging workers find help locating new jobs (The Springfield News-Leader)

When Ann Fahr, 59, was looking for a job this summer, she felt dated. "It's different than it was when we looked for jobs when we were younger. A lot of it is done online and a lot of seniors don't know how to do it online," Fahr says.

No Steve Jobs or big announcements expected at Macworld (Contra Costa Times)

Apple prognosticators don't expect new product lines to be announced at Macworld, given that Jobs isn't scheduled to be there to cast his marketing spell -- company senior vice president Phil Schiller will take his place on the big stage. Also, the conference comes at a time the nation is mired in its worst recession in decades, not an opportune time to launch new gadgets.

College offers free semester to those hit by downturn (The Tribune-Democrat)

Laid-off workers are getting some help training for new careers at Pennsylvania Highlands Community College. Cambria County residents who have lost jobs because of economic conditions are eligible for free tuition for one full semester, college President Walter Asonevich said Monday.

Ira Goldstein, 80, was a pioneer in computer programming (Orlando Sentinel)

Ira Goldstein, one of the architects of the world's first large-scale air-defense network and a pioneer of the computer system that led to the creation of the Internet, died Dec. 23. He was 80.