Business Stories from April 12, 2015 (Change date)
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Record U.S. capital spending may be bad for marketApr 13, 2015 6:59 am - If you're an American chief executive officer with a couple million dollars to blow, you may want to think twice before using it to expand plants or add equipment. That'...
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The IRS wants to convince millennials it's cool to work thereApr 13, 2015 6:59 am - For the Internal Revenue Service to stay in business, it needs a youth bomb. More than half its employees are over 50 years old. Four years from now, about 40 percent of...
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Workers left on their own as employers drop health benefitsApr 13, 2015 8:12 am - A growing number of Americans are no longer getting health insurance directly from work as companies quit administering benefits, sending about 40 million people to shop...
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Could be summer of roadtrips with cheap gasApr 14, 2015 6:15 am - HOUSTON - Vacations will be a bit cheaper this year with gasoline prices the lowest since 2009. U.S. consumers will pay $1.14 a gallon less this summer than in 2014 and ...
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In cable, it's survival of the fittest as channels drop from the bundleApr 14, 2015 10:40 am - At the Weather Channel, the heavy snow and bitter cold that swept the Northeast this winter was cause for celebration as its wall-to-wall coverage helped lift ratings to...
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Why even top executive women aren't paid as well as menApr 14, 2015 6:14 am - Pay for performance - the concept that corporate executives earn gobs of stock grants when they perform well, but risk them if their company disappoints - should be a gr...
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Using a prepaid card? Avoid getting socked with fees.Apr 13, 2015 12:00 pm - By Jonnelle Marte The Washington Post WASHINGTON - Prepaid cards are growing more mainstream, and not just among the poor. The cards, which initially were viewed as an a...
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Researchers use fake iPhone ads to examine stigmas of race, class onlineApr 14, 2015 6:14 am - Let's say you're in the market for an iPhone, used, online. Consider this ad: "I'm selling my black iPhone 5. It's in great condition and includes all of the original it...
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Transporting legalized marijuana can be dangerousApr 13, 2015 6:59 am - At a farm in the foothills of Colorado's Rocky Mountains, Corey Young tucks his client's marijuana into a shoe box-sized container in an unmarked white van and heads out...
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Svalbard Global Seed Vault keeps backups in case of epic disasterApr 13, 2015 6:59 am - WASHINGTON - It belongs in sci-fi - but it actually exists in reality. On the Svalbard island of Spitsbergen, one of the remotest places on Earth, mostly covered with ic...
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