In honor of the biggest football game of the year, being played this weekend, here are some fun facts about the contenders and their hometowns.
New York City, home of the New York Giants, is ranked first on the list of the nation’s most populous cities, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The Giants have won seven championships overall, including three Big Game wins; the last victory was during the 2007-2008 season over the New England Patriots, their current rival. Home games are played at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.
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The recession changed a lot of things. It changed the way people spend money, the way they save for retirement, the way they invest in stocks. It’s also changed the way companies recruit employees. Gone are the days when companies courted prospective employees, hiring managers offered generous starting bonuses and job seekers could choose from multiple offers.
Since the recession ended in June 2009, companies have been slowly emerging from survival mode and have begun more active hiring. Yet the job market has been forever changed, and job seekers have had …

Have you ever had a friend that claimed to be a model, but you suspected that he or she really wasn’t one? She may have had “model” listed as her job on Facebook, or he may have had dozens of glamour-shots posted on ModelMayhem.com, but you never saw an actual ad campaign or commercial?
Well, your hunch was probably correct, because according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are only 1,200 people in the U.S. who are actually employed as models.
The fact that there are so few working models isn’t all that surprising …

There have been signs of economic growth this month. Earlier in the month we learned that as of December 2011, the national jobless rate was at 8.5 percent, a rate that’s continued to trend down since February 2009.
Yet not all states are created equal when it comes to economic recovery. Some states weathered the recession better than others. And while most states have seen a decline in unemployment post-recession, others have dealt with fluctuating jobless rates. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ recent breakdown of regional and state unemployment …

All eyes were on President Obama last night as he delivered what was potentially his final State of the Union address. One of the central issues discussed in his speech? Jobs. And rightly so.
Though Obama cited recent improvements in the job market – the country has regained more than 3 million jobs in the last 22 months – it’s also clear that we still have a ways to go. After all, 3 million jobs in 22 months comes out to roughly 136,000 jobs per month. Economists believe it will take the …