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The Best Cities For Jobs 2013 Joel Kotkin Contributor America’s New Manufacturing Boomtowns Joel Kotkin Contributor America’s Fastest- And Slowest-Growing Cities Joel Kotkin Contributor Wall Street’s Hollow Boom: With Small Business And Startups Lagging, Job Recovery Unlikely Joel Kotkin Contributor … Continue reading →

More than three-quarters of union members who had been scheduled to work Tuesday did so, said Dianne Klein, spokeswoman for the UC office of the president. Hospital officials said they expected a similar turnout Wednesday. “The [union] leadership is engaged … Continue reading →

James Cash Penney had a dubious name for a department-store entrepreneur, sounding more like a fictional character from a capitalist comic book. For decades, the eponymous company he founded in 1902 lived up to the superheroic promise of his handle, … Continue reading →

In a news release, McDonnell said Amazon will create a Herndon area office “to support engineering and services for commercial and government customers of AWS cloud services.” The jobs are expected to pay an average of at least $100,000 a … Continue reading →

Ford Sees Record U.S. Profit While Europe Bleeds Joann Muller Forbes Staff There’s a tradition among U.S. automakers to shut down factories for two weeks in early July for what’s called the model-year changeover — that’s when routine maintenance is … Continue reading →

The US government’s price-fixing lawsuit against Apple goes to trial next month in New York. Ahead of its court date, the US released emails that purport to show Apple was the “ringleader” in a scheme to set artificially high ebook prices with … Continue reading →

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is out with a new study of the labor market for college grads, and lurking within it is a factoid that I imagine will have a long and fruitful life bouncing around the … Continue reading →

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Nonetheless, the company is still growing and will continue to hire people as needed, said two people who had knowledge of its plans but were not authorized to speak publicly. In a statement Tuesday, ESPN said, “We are implementing changes … Continue reading →

Haraz N. Ghanbari/Associated PressJamie Dimon, the chief executive and chairman of JPMorgan Chase. TAMPA, Fla. — Jamie Dimon, the nation’s most powerful banker, appears set to hold onto his title of chairman after JPMorgan Chase’s shareholders defeated a proposal to … Continue reading →