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Economist predicts business turnaround locally this year
More than 270 Glendale business owners and representatives who were wondering when the economy will pick up again came out on Thursday to hear a local economist forecast cautious optimism for the new year. Robert Kleinhenz, chief economist with the Los...
Tags: Glen Oaks, Employment Opportunities, Google+, Employment, Career and Workplace
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Supervisor calls for 'structural overhaul'
Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich slammed state lawmakers on Wednesday at an economic summit at Woodbury College in Burbank, blaming them for much of the financial stress that has forced local governments to shed jobs and cut services. The...Tags: Economy, Texas, Layoffs and Downsizing, Consumer Confidence, Natural Disasters
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Early Easter leaves Orlando hotels with April hangover
After four months of year-over-year growth, business dipped in April at Orlando-area hotels, likely because of an early Easter this year and the absence of a couple of big conventions in town. Hotels in the Orlando market filled 72.6 percent of their...
Tags: Orange County Convention Center, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Orlando Hotels, Consumer Confidence, Trips and Vacations
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Why the medical device tax needs to stay
The chief drawback of a law as complex as the Affordable Care Act, the health insurance reform measure passed in 2010, is that it provides self-interested opponents a multitude of places to stick a wedge in and hammer away. But you'd be hard-pressed...Tags: Science and Technology, Barbara Boxer, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Invention and Innovation, Politics
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Higher consumer spending will offset sequester cuts, economists say
WASHINGTON -- Consumers will help keep economic growth on track this year, as new projections of their spending indicate it will offset the hit to the recovery from the federal government's automatic budget cuts, a panel of economists said Monday. The...
Tags: National Government, Consumers, Government Debt, Labor Markets, Politics
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Unemployment continues to fall as consumer confidence rebounds
A surging stock market and rebounding housing prices are translating into a robust job market in South Florida. South Florida's unemployment continued its decline in April, dropping a notch to 5.6 percent in Broward and 6.8 percent in Palm Beach County,...Tags: Rick Scott, Land Price, Executive Branch, Unemployment, Consumers
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Caroline Baum: Federal Reserve handicaps race of its own making
Ed Koch, the late mayor of New York City, used to stop residents on the street and ask, "How am I doing?" With next month marking the four-year anniversary of the end of the 2007-2009 recession, the longest and deepest since the Great Depression, it...Tags: Federal Reserve, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Ben Bernanke, Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Money and Monetary Policy
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Md. sheds 6,200 jobs in April, Labor Department says
Maryland employers slashed 6,200 jobs in April, cutting short a string of gains, the U.S. Department of Labor said Friday, as the state began feeling the pinch of federal budget sequestration and cutbacks in consumer spending. But the government's...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Unemployment, Business, Consumers, Moody's Corporation
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'I know it when I see it'
In the 1964 U.S. Supreme Court case Jacobellis v. Ohio, Justice Potter Stewart wrote a concurring opinion he hoped would establish a legal standard that protected every American's right to free speech yet guarded community standards against hard core...Tags: Science and Technology, Humana Incorporated, Political Corruption, Government Debt, Orrin Hatch
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The day ahead in business May 16
Reports: Initial jobless claims for week ended May 11, 7:30 a.m; Consumer price index for April, 7:30 a.m.; Housing starts/building permits for April, 7:30 a.m.; Philadelphia Fed survey for May, 9 a.m.; Mortgage rates for week ended May 16, 9 a.m.;...
Tags: Singapore Airlines, JC Penney Company Inc., Nordstrom, Inc., Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Consumer Confidence
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Initial jobless claims jump to 360,000, most since March
WASHINGTON -- Initial jobless claims unexpectedly jumped to a six-week high of 360,000 last week after declining to a post-recession low this month, the Labor Department said Thursday. The number of people filing for the first-time for unemployment...
Tags: Employment Opportunities, Easter, Unemployment Benefits, Employment, Unemployment Rate
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France tumbles into double-dip recession
PARIS -- Beleaguered French President Francois Hollande suffered a further setback in his attempts to pull France out of its economic slump after official figures showed Wednesday that the country has entered a double-dip recession. Figures released by...
Tags: Francois Hollande, France, European Union, Japan
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