If you caught yourself saying, "Thank God 2009 is over!" you may well find yourself saying the same thing when 2010 ends -- but you could well be poorer, older and less employable by that point.
Florida has been hit especially hard by the recession, shedding the highest number of jobs across the country - nearly 17,000 - last November, making it one of the worst-hit states in the nation.
By Stephen Viscusi. Let me start this column by clarifying that HarperCollins, put on the cover of my last book, "Bulletproof Your Job"--- "Amer...
There are quite a few positive things scheduled for 2010. This doesn't automatically mean the president is guaranteed to have a great year, but it certainly sets the scene.
While last year's long unemployment lines seemed to forecast rising crime rates, our city continues to experience its lowest number of homicides since 1967.
Honestly, I'm one of the least talented people you'll meet for learning a new language -- but slowly learning my second language has been a joy every step of the way, mainly because of technology.
I believe that our children and children's children will talk about this time in the future as a distant nightmare.
Outplacement firms specialize in assisting recently laid off people with their job search. They are a great resource and unfortunately not everybody takes advantage of them.
In 2000, increasingly fast Internet connections and cheap storage led to a rapid growth of digital piracy--the theft of music, movies, TV programs, software, video games, books, photos and periodicals.
Before we get all high-and-mighty about the terrible job that security experts are doing, we need to ponder the Politics of Invisibility, and remember that it's easy to criticize what we see.
What we need is not only a rebound in the economy, it's the feeling in corporate America that it's good to employ people.
It is time to move on from the past and embrace the opportunities and challenges that we face this new year: In 2010 the most challenging domestic issue is high unemployment.
It is time, to figure out how to re-invent yourself for 2010. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
The public transportation money in last year's stimulus bill was spent faster and created twice as many jobs as the money spent on highway projects.
Just about everything you'll start hearing come out of Washington will really be about November's midterm election. The gravitational pull of the midterms was already apparent last year, as Republicans marched in perfect lockstep to vote against whatever the president and Democrats proposed, but you haven't seen anything yet. Issue number one will be unemployment, and there are a number of possible scenarios for where we're headed on that front.
As the political punditry prognosticates of Democratic political disaster this fall, it is well to remember that Democrats have a weapon, the importance of which Washington types don't fully understand.
It's time for either some new ideas from across the Atlantic, where "social capitalism" is weathering this storm better than U.S.-style "Wall Street capitalism."
It's a new year, and some, erroneously believe a new decade. What's not new is the stranglehold the banks have on our economy, quietly stashing billions for bonuses while still restricting the flow of credit.
It's time once again for Obama Poll Watch -- our monthly look back at Obama's approval ratings for the previous month.
Wall Street is having a near record year in profits (and soon in bonuses as well). But they aren't making loans. So how are they making all that money?
My investigative report showing the by-passing of ethnic businesses in stimulus-funded small business loans has appeared -- or is scheduled to run -- in 29 publications across the country.
