All Stories from April 5, 2015 (Change date)
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Moms are working later into pregnancies, going back to work earlierApr 07, 2015 6:07 am - WASHINGTON - Last week the Supreme Court handed down a 6-3 ruling making it easier for pregnant women to take employers who discriminate against them to court. As the Pe...
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Minimum wage worker loses job after her story is publishedApr 06, 2015 8:48 am - Shanna Tippen was another hourly worker at the bottom of the nation's economy, looking forward to a 25-cent bump in the Arkansas minimum wage that would make it easier f...
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Sluggish small-business hiring may portend U.S. labor weaknessApr 05, 2015 7:30 am - NEW YORK -- Hiring at the smallest U.S. businesses is moderating, a sign of sluggishness in the economy. Growth has slowed in some indexes measuring employment at compan...
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Jobseekers with criminal records find past is ever-presentApr 06, 2015 8:48 am - Shari Thomas went to prison more than 25 years ago for killing the man who she said had abused her as a child. She used her time there to remake herself, becoming the fi...
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Believe Project: $100 to make rosaries to send around the worldApr 05, 2015 7:20 pm - Today's winner of a $100 bill through the Believe Project is Judy Lamac of Mount Prospect. Here is an excerpt of her suggestion: "I am a member of the Rosary Makers grou...
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Career Coach: To win in the future you need to first imagine itApr 05, 2015 7:30 am - In a recent presentation to a group of chief executives, I was struck by how many of them felt that they were losing their capacity to imagine new possibilities for thei...
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Putting off retirement savings until you make more money is a mistakeApr 05, 2015 2:48 pm - WASHINGTON - People in their 20s have a list of excuses for putting off saving for retirement: Their paychecks are too small. They don't know how long they'll stay with ...
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Cadillac strives to recapture its upscale reputationApr 06, 2015 8:48 am - NEW YORK -- The good times have returned to the U.S. automobile industry, but they seem to have rolled past the Cadillac division of General Motors. Cadillac, founded in...
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Losing a job is always terrible. For workers over 50, it's worse.Apr 06, 2015 8:48 am - WASHINGTON -- At first blush, it wouldn't appear that older workers have it all that bad in today's economy. They got their start long before the economy's Troubles real...
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Constable: Looking for fresh eggs? Get into chicken rentalsApr 06, 2015 6:19 am - The Facebook page of Kellie Burke of Wauconda features three little words not usually seen in the same sentence: Urban Chicken Rentals. "Bring the eggsperience home," sa...