For three years, the National Association of Colleges and Employers has asked graduating seniors if they've received a job offer and if they've ever had either a paid or unpaid internship. And for three years, it's reached the same conclusion: Unpaid ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Despite all the challenges small businesses have faced in the past five years, seven out of ten of entrepreneurs would start their businesses all over again. Not only that, almost half of all Americans are harboring entrepreneurial dreams of their own ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Worry and speculation have consumed investors since Chairman Ben Bernanke spoke to Congress last month about the Federal Reserve's drive to keep long-term interest rates at record lows. On Wednesday, many hope the Fed will settle the confusion.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's exports rose in May at the fastest annual rate in more than two years with the help of a weak yen and a moderate pick-up in global demand, boding well for the government's efforts to steer the economy through market turbulence.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
The survey classifies three types of employees among the 100 million people in America who hold full-time jobs. The first is actively engaged, which represents about 30 million workers. The second type of worker is "not engaged," which accounts for 50 ...
Monday, June 17, 2013
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Monday, June 17, 2013
More than $500 billion wiped off the value of U.S. stocks is providing opportunities for investors who remember that equities tend to rise when the Federal Reserve begins reducing efforts to stimulate the economy. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index, which ...
Monday, June 17, 2013
The award recognizes outstanding high-growth entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence and extraordinary success in areas such as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities, according to a news ...
Friday, June 14, 2013
(MoneyWatch) "Tapering." It is the word on all investors' lips these days, as financial markets around the world gird for the day the Federal Reserve halts its regimen of monthly adrenaline shots for the U.S. economy. Hoping to ease the pain, the ...
Friday, June 14, 2013
Longmont-based DigitalGlobe received approval for $4.4 million under the state's job-growth-incentive tax-credit program in return for creating 505 jobs over the next five years. The nation's leading commercial provider of satellite imagery data ...
Friday, June 14, 2013
Investors said they are concerned by a World Bank report that reduced the expected growth rate for China's economy. They appear even more worried that central banks will cut back efforts to stimulate the economy. Those efforts currently include the U.S ...
Thursday, June 13, 2013
"You were an entrepreneur before we knew what 'entrepreneur' meant," banker-economist Ed Scharlau told Frasca — and more than 200 admirers — at a dinner Wednesday evening celebrating Frasca's accomplishments. It wasn't much of an exaggeration.
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Auto and parts manufacturing jobs are recovering at a faster pace, and some fundamentals have changed from pre-recession days. Motor vehicles and automotive parts manufacturing jobs in the U.S. in 1999-2000, for example, numbered a little more than 1.1 ...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
LONDON — The escalation in the clashes between Turkey's government and protesters could hurt an economy that has become a source of growth and stability in a region hit by recession and unrest. The protests started 12 days ago as a demonstration ...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
“We want this to be a place for all entrepreneurs from any industry,” said Dallas serial entrepreneur Trey Bowles, a co-founder and DEC's chief executive. “What we want to do is help and build businesses.” Other startup communities have taken a similar ...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
LONDON – The escalation in the clashes between Turkey's government and protesters could hurt one of the world's recent economic success stories, spelling uncertainty for a country that has become a source of growth and stability in a region hit by ...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
There are numerous people like Mary who want to explore their entrepreneurial side and have a good idea of what they want to do, but are stumped as to where to start and how to set up the venture. The franchise model was the answer to Mary's prayers ...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Jobs centered on data have been falling into Ana Bertran Ortiz's lap since she finished her electrical engineering Ph.D. in 2007. The jobs all come from her command of statistics, making her a beneficiary of the growing demand by U.S. employers for so ...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Economists seem to agree that China's economy is slowing, but the real question appears to be whether the government is worried enough to offer some sort of policy response. A slate of Chinese data out over the weekend ...
Monday, June 10, 2013
Women are catching up with men in the race for jobs. After trailing men through most of the jobs recovery since 2010, women this year are keeping pace and their unemployment rate has fallen far more rapidly. The Labor Department said Friday that the ...
Monday, June 10, 2013
Twenty-four businesses ranging from financial services and technology to agriculture and manufacturing have been shortlisted for this year's Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year (EOY) awards. Four of these businesses – Datahug, Barracuda FX, Sugru ...
Monday, June 10, 2013
Some analysts expect the Fed's next move to rein in its stimulus could come at the central bank's September policy meeting, which would give the central bank the chance to view three more monthly jobs reports and ensure the recovery stays on track.
Friday, June 07, 2013
According to psychologists, many successful people, including entrepreneurs, suffer from "imposter syndrome," the belief they don't deserve their success. Sooner or later, they think, someone will recognize them as the frauds they think they are ...
Friday, June 07, 2013
The euro zone's political leaders must stick to their timetable for building a banking union, or risk undermining still "fragile" confidence in the currency area's future, Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny said Friday. Speaking at a conference in ...
Friday, June 07, 2013
Jobs jitters: Investors turned their focus to the job market early Thursday. The government said initial claims for unemployment benefits totaled 346,000 in the week ended June 1, down 11,000 from the previous week. Friday brings the government's ...
Thursday, June 06, 2013
Federal Reserve Governor Sarah Bloom Raskin said regulators must complete new international capital rules because delays may be harming financial institutions by leaving them unsure how to plan for the future. “Lending decisions and funding plans today ...
Thursday, June 06, 2013
The economy must add more than 365 thousand jobs each month for three years to lower unemployment to 6 percent. Consequently, economists expect second quarter growth to be below 2 percent despite the recent euphoria generated by surging home ...
Thursday, June 06, 2013
TOKYO — In a bid to give a second wind to his drive to kick-start Japan's economy, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe laid out a wide-ranging growth strategy on Wednesday that he said would beat deflation, increase personal incomes and reboot an economy ...
Wednesday, June 05, 2013
Many college officials are cheering as the job offers come in for their graduates. "At both the graduate and the undergraduate level, we're seeing higher salaries, we're seeing earlier offers, and we're seeing better acceptance rates than we've seen in ...
Wednesday, June 05, 2013
In its second quarterly report of 2013, the UCLA Anderson Forecast says that despite the United States' "improvement in both GDP and key economic sectors, the overall growth falls short of the rates required for the national economy to truly recover ...
Wednesday, June 05, 2013
He hasn't yet graduated from high school, but Sean Burris is already airborne with his first business venture: Classic Jet Tours. Fueled by his passion for vintage jet airliners from the 1950s and '60s, the 18-year-old has organized two charter flights ...
Monday, June 03, 2013
Foster City's budget will be balanced next year but a couple of recent big events will cause the city to realize a structural deficit starting in fiscal year 2015. The city lost its largest sales tax producer, Life Technologies Corporation, as the ...
Monday, June 03, 2013
The biggest economic news of the past week was the release of the inflation number for April. The sight of easing consumer prices in the midst of what seems to be a general strengthening of the economy brought to mind an expression that was often used ...
Monday, June 03, 2013
It still pays to earn a college degree. That is, if you get the right one. Georgetown University published a report Wednesday that looked into this dilemma. "The labor market demands more specialization. So, the game has changed," says Anthony ...
Sunday, June 02, 2013
Over the past 60 years, financial services' share of the economy has exploded from 2.5% to 8.5% of GDP. Even if you believe, as we do, that financialization is not a healthy trend, the sector boasts a high number of relatively well-paid jobs that most ...
Friday, May 31, 2013
Students play their instruments in front of protesters at a rally outside the School District of Philadelphia headquarters on North Broad Street before a public meeting by the School Reform Commission. (MICHAEL S. WIRTZ / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER) ...
Friday, May 31, 2013
Interstate 5, before last week's bridge collapse over the Skagit River on the south end of town, was the great pumping arterial source of economic life here. It brought Canadians, shopping for furniture or clothes. It brought day-tripping outlet mall ...
Friday, May 31, 2013
The decision follows announcements by major tech firms, including Apple and Lenovo, planning to add U.S. manufacturing capacity after more than a decade in which the flow was almost exclusively in the other direction - with millions of jobs going to ...
Thursday, May 30, 2013
The report didn't significantly alter the picture of the U.S. economy. We know from the GDP report, as well as other government data, that consumer spending picked up in the first quarter, but job growth continued at roughly the same pace as in the ...
Thursday, May 30, 2013
The current debate over national economic policy has drawn to standstill in recent months, amid falling unemployment, budget deficits, and the sundry scandals that have consumed much of Washington. But just because the problems of unemployment and ...
Thursday, May 30, 2013
BERLIN (AP) — The European Union moved away from its focus on tough austerity Wednesday when it gave France, Spain and four other member states more time to bring their budget deficits under control to support their economies. Unveiling a series of ...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie got some chuckles last May when he called the Legislature's chief budget officer, David Rosen, "Dr. Kevorkian" for challenging his flashy revenue projections and the economic outlook he used to justify them. "Why would ...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
A housing-fueled economic recovery and an improving employment picture are boosting retail prospects in the Sacramento area, according market researcher Marcus & Millichap. Noting that home sales have surged to 2005 levels, a second-quarter 2013 ...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
WASHINGTON — Five months into his improvisational second term, a sluggish economy and severe jobless rate seem to have vanished from President Obama's agenda. That is, if he had a substantive second term agenda to begin with. He certainly didn't ...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
While some women may actually be working on the most physical jobs on a rig -- the roustabouts or roughnecks that muscle drill pipe into place and perform other manual tasks -- Rigzone President Paul Caplan thinks nearly half the women in the oil ...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
AUSTIN — A group of unions, education groups, disability rights activists, social-justice interfaith groups and health care providers and advocates said Monday that lawmakers at best deserve middling to poor marks for their two-year, $197 billion ...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said in an interview Thursday that House Republicans will “get to the bottom” of an array of White House controversies, while emphasizing jobs as their public message. “The Congress has the responsibility to get to ...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
"Web developer has really taken off as a career for computer-savvy job seekers who either are self-taught or took a few college-level courses but didn't graduate, and who are comfortable enough with their skills to make a meaningful contribution," Lee ...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Saving For Your Children's College Fund On A Budget. Northwestern Mutual Contributor, Northwestern Mutual. comments, called-out. By Tim Devaney and Tom Stein. Watching your children hit milestones and mark life's achievements is one of the greatest ...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
(TOKYO) — Japan's central bank says the world's third-biggest economy is “picking up” as demand recovers in other countries and remains resilient at home, though the trade deficit widened in April, for the tenth straight month. The Bank of Japan ended ...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Elizabeth Kneebone, co-author of the Brookings Institution book, said that across the nation, the suburban poor fall into two basic camps: either lower-income families who moved into the suburbs, or longer term residents who have slipped down the ...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Massachusetts lawmakers are considering deep cuts in funding for a youth summer jobs program even as teen unemployment remains near record levels. The program, called YouthWorks, helped more than 5,000 young people from low-income households ...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Including the bridge planning money, Inslee vetoed a dozen sections of the transportation budget Monday, including a provision for an audit of State Route 520 that Inslee said duplicated work already being done, and a study of guardrails that Inslee ...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
It went largely unnoticed at the end of last week due to the Obama scandalpalooza, but the Congressional Budget Office's score of President Obama's budget was released on Friday afternoon. The short summary is that a combination of tax hikes and ...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
LONDON (MarketWatch) - For months, European central bankers have been warning of dislocation between financial markets and the real economy. No one has paid much notice, with equities proceeding to new highs on hopes of ever-more central banking ...
Monday, May 20, 2013
Poverty is growing faster in the suburbs than anywhere else in the United States, soaring 64% over the past decade. That was more than twice the growth rate of the urban poor population, according to the Brookings Institution, which released a book ...
Monday, May 20, 2013
Over the next few weeks, thousands of young men and women in the Sacramento region will receive diplomas signifying their transition from high school to college or from institutions of higher learning into the work world. At California State University ...
Monday, May 20, 2013
Students in Jefferson County would spent six to eight more hours in the classroom next year under the superintendent's budget proposal. The number of early-release days would decrease to five in 2013-14, down from nine this school year, Superintendent ...
Monday, May 20, 2013
The state Senate released a $20.58 billion proposed budget late Sunday night that would eliminate class-size limits for the youngest public school students, move the State Bureau of Investigation to a department the governor's appointee controls and ...
Monday, May 20, 2013
That first summer job is often a rite of passage for many teens. It's the signal that you're on your way to adulthood, and it's also a method for earning money to pay for activities, interests or to stash away for post-secondary schooling. However, the ...
Monday, May 20, 2013
