Is now a good time to switch employers? Or is it wiser to stick with your current job and make the best of it? The days in which workers could expect to have one long career at a single company are long gone. In more recent …
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60 and Still Not Out of Student Loan Debt: Seniors Facing $36 Billion in College Loans
Student loan debt is usually thought of as a young person’s problem. Those who earned their degrees in 2010 graduated with what was then a highest-ever average of $25,250 in student loans, and considering that education costs are …
How Companies Misfire on Flexible Schedules for Older Workers
Employers recognize that they need to develop flexible work schedules to retain valued older workers. So why can’t they get it right? A new report identifies four troublesome trends.
Which City Has the Best Job Market?
The U.S. economy has finally started to see some steady, robust job growth — adding more than 220,000 jobs each of the past three months. This is surely good news for the country, but we all know that America is anything but a …
Summer Jobs: Students in Demand Again, But They’d Better Start Now
For the first time in five years students will be competing more against other students than out-of-work adults for summer work, a poll says. Hiring is up, but you need to get started now.
Another Green Shoot: Millionaire Households Rising
Millionaire households in the U.S. are rising again, largely because the mass affluent stayed the course with their stocks during the downturn and are reaping the benefits of the market’s recovery. But frugality also played a big role.
Lawmakers Try to Ban Facebook ‘Shoulder Surfing’ by Employers
Even in a marketplace where people routinely trade access to their personal data for small freebies like online games and coupons, some employers have provoked outrage by demanding to see job applicants’ private Facebook pages. Now, lawmakers are wading into the fray with legislation that would prohibit the practice of “shoulder surfing” …
The Declining Economic Might of the Once Coveted 18-to-34 Demographic
For years, retailers, marketers and businesses of all shapes and sizes have gone out of their way to try to win over that “all-important” 18-to-34-year-old demographic. Now that this age group is broke and facing huge student …
Move Out of Your Parents’ House and Save the Economy
Whatever happened to wanderlust? Over the years, Americans in their 20s have grown less and less likely to move away from their home states. During the recession era, young adults have becoming increasingly unlikely to leave even …
Universities Retool and Boomers Flock Back to Campus
Adults are going back to college to restart their career, switch jobs, launch a second act, or just to have fun learning. But as you might expect, it’s expensive. Here are seven ways one expert says will make going back to campus …
Housing Recovery at Last? Evidence Mounts
While experts continue to warn that housing has not yet hit bottom, a slew of indicators suggest otherwise. The latest is a stellar quarterly earnings report from Home Depot, which is benefitting from hopeful owners sprucing up …
Your Facebook Profile Can Predict Your Job Performance
It can take as little as 10 minutes for someone to go through your Facebook profile and predict how you’ll perform in the workplace.
