Last week’s Employment Situation report from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics got the predictable amount of attention, especially since it showed no real improvement in the nation’s 7.6 percent unemployment rate. Analysts have been parsing the meaning of this report, especially the decline in workforce participation (meaning that fewer people say they are looking [...]
With 2014 less than nine months away, not to mention the nation’s expanding medical problems driven by demographics and lifestyle, the health care beat will always be fertile territory for the business journalist. In addition to the story ideas related to the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care act outlined in this recent blog [...]
How is biomedical research driving jobs, business start-ups and technology in your market? News this week of President Obama’s proposed $100 million funding for a ‘brain-mapping initiative“ might prompt you to take a look at how biomedical research may be driving jobs, business start-ups and technology in your market. Here’s a link to the White House [...]
We seem to be whisking through 2013 at a fast clip, and among other things that brings us closer to 2014 and near-full implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA), otherwise known as Obamacare. If you haven’t tackled a health-insurance or health care story in a while, some recent headlines [...]
Recent high-profile bankruptcies like that of imaging giant Kodak and Twinkie-maker Hostess Brands got me wondering about the state of bankruptcy five years after the 2008 financial crash that led to recession and a very slow recovery. While overall bankruptcy stats are down, it turns out there still are more than 1.3 million filings a year. [...]
Amid the doom and gloom of sequestration, a pending jobs report that likely will be tepid at best and more foreclosure scams, it’s nice to get something warm and cuddly in the business pages for an occasional change. And since we’re in the midst of the national Professional Pet Sitters Week, slated for March 3-9 [...]
The widely reported story about the California retirement facility whose staff refused to perform CPR on a dying resident – despite the exhortations of a 911 dispatcher — probably has quite a few members of your audience wondering what they’ve signed up for, or not, in terms of services at retirement, assisted living and nursing [...]
From the impending federal budget cuts to quirky cruise ship stories to rising sales of big-ticket items like cars and homes, 2013 has been a robust year for business news. Some days the options for meaty stories are a feast for reporters, and many good ones get put aside. Here are a few ideas and resources [...]
News last week that Yahoo! will be withdrawing work-from-home privileges from employees this spring is a good peg for taking a look at the prevalence of telecommuting among your audience’s employers. Some Internet pundits wonder if the Yahoo! ban on telecommuting is a back-door way of prompting resignations in lieu of layoffs; others point out [...]
