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Recession Briefing 8.10: Dirty Jobs are in Demand

What you need to know today to survive and thrive in the recession.

People who have been out of work for months are lining up for jobs at places they once considered unthinkable: slaughterhouses, sewage plants, prisons. (Associated Press)

Growing numbers of new college graduates — or, more often, their parents — are paying thousands of dollars to services that help them land internships. (New York Times)

Economists don’t see much relief for unemployed teenagers in a recession that has trimmed hires and pulled many adults into the scramble for jobs typically held by teens. (Wall Street Journal)

Five months ago, MSNBC.com began what is one of the most unusual experiments in online journalism to date: it ensconced itself in one city in Indiana and documented how that city grappled with the economic downturn. (New York Times)

The recession has put a kink in the plans of a San Francisco nonprofit that recycles human hair scraps to clean up oil spills. (Wall Street Journal)

Widespread — if somewhat unscientific — indicators of a recession include sales for movie tickets, neckties, and lipstick. Here are ten such indicators of bad times ahead. (Huffington Post)

Investment banks are having to re-position themselves following an industry meltdown. Here’s a look at how Wall Street banks’ ads have evolved over time. (The Big Money)

Crisis it may be, but there are ways to profit in business during a downturn, if not in real financial returns, then in building the company for tomorrow. (Los Angeles Times)

After more than a year of recession, sex isn’t selling any better than anything else. From Internet pornography to strip-club lap dances to Playboy magazines, business is hurting. (Chicago Tribune)

The first of several new series attempting to squeeze ratings lemonade from the country’s economy of lemons, Mark Burnett’s Shark Tank arrived yesterday on ABC with a timely premise: Five self-made billionaires offer their own personal stimulus packages for average Americans with promising business ideas. (Hollywood Reporter)

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