Next week is heavy with jobs and employment reports, climaxing Friday with the monthly update of the nation’s unemployment rate. There has been a bit of good jobs news lately, as chain retailers announce tens of thousands of seasonal jobs and temporary staffing agencies report an uptick in demand. Still, nearly half a million Americans [...]
CNBC’s correspondent Maria Bartiromo, senior executive producer Mitch Weitzner, senior producer Wally Griffith and their team won an Emmy from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for their “Inside the Mind of Google” segment. The segment takes viewers into Google’s Mountainview, Calif., headquarters that CEO Eric Schmidt describes as an “extension of graduate [...]
Sometimes you need a break from packages about the jobs market, the residential housing mess and dire industry news. Click through these slides for a sampling of biz feature story nuggets you can dig right into or set aside for a rainy day.
How much do the Green Bay Packers and Lambeau Field impact the local economy? According to a story on PackersNews.com, a study released today states that during last year’s football season the team and its facilities “brought in $282 million in spending in Brown County — which includes $124.3 million in wages — and $15.2 [...]
Veteran financial journalist and author Alan Deutschman has been named Reynolds Endowed Chair in Business Journalism at the Donald W. Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno. Deutschman, 45, has covered Silicon Valley and other business topics for years. He was Fortune’s Silicon Valley bureau chief from 1992-95. He also wrote about [...]
With little more than a month to go before the Nov. 2 general election, you might want to check out the political contributions being made by companies and business leaders in your region. With control of Congress in the balance, spending is up, according to this USAT article quoting the Sunlight Foundation. And a lot [...]
Jerry Hirsch and Marc Lifsher of the Los Angeles Times found that unpaid merchants’ tax bills could help offset California’s budget crisis. Their story starts: “California is owed nearly $1.4 billion by auto dealers, restaurants and other businesses that collected sales taxes from buyers but didn’t pass the money along to the state — a [...]
The largest consumer packaged goods company in the world has committed itself to sustainability through a new series of environmental goals. Procter & Gamble announced a fresh long-term vision this week, an effort that would transform the company’s products and operations. The initiatives include long-term goals like using 100 percent renewable or recycled materials for [...]
The ranks of the nation’s poor rose last year. And weddings for people 18 and older dropped to the lowest point in over a hundred years. That’s according to data released by the U.S. Census Bureau Tuesday. And those nuggets just skim the surface. The Census Bureau released the 2009 American Community Survey (ACS), one [...]
