Topic: The Associated Press
1) The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) is responsible for overseeing the integrity of the accounting processes and accuracy of public companies' financials. As examples of their findings, one SEC attorney spent up to eight hours a day downloading pornography, burning his findings ...
Who is running the country? Political ads are sounding more and more like tabloids headlines. What is the name of your children?s school principal? If the first set of?questions were a?snap, but you are still either Googleing, pondering or working up a ...
The economy may be recovering, but Americans are still guarding their walletsLayaway, once the province of the poor, has gone mainstream. At the Mall of America in Minnesota, shoppers dart in for just one or two things. In New York, socialites do ...
The new Congress that begins in January will confront an economy and a job market that will improve only slightly next year, according to an Associated Press survey of leading economists that found them gloomier than they were three months ago. The ...
Job gains in Midwest ease economic stress to lowest level in 5 months, AP stress map showsManufacturing job gains in the Midwest helped lower the nation's economic stress in April to its lowest point in five months, according to The Associated Press' ...
Recession has scholars renewing their debate about whether bad economy helps or hinders healthDuring recessions, idled factories spew less pollution and fewer people commuting to jobs means fewer traffic deaths. Laid-off workers have more time to exercise and cook for themselves and ...
Not just Dad's recession: Congressional report finds single, working moms hard hit by downturnThey've called it the "Mancession" — a recession that's affected men disproportionately, because of its brutal impact on male-dominated sectors like construction and manufacturing.But that term rings hollow to ...
Economic stress declines in three-quarters of nation's counties in March, AP stress map showsEconomic stress declined in March in nearly three-quarters of the nation's 3,141 counties, according to The Associated Press' monthly analysis of conditions around the country.The gains were due to ...
A new frugality among consumers whose wealth has shrunk is outliving the recessionEven as the economic recovery plods ahead, many American consumers are refusing to come along.They're not spending freely — and they have no plans to.Many of them have steady income. ...
Business HighlightsHigher consumer spending in Q1 still lacks vigorWASHINGTON (AP) — Consumers spent more and helped lift the economy last quarter but not enough to ignite the recovery and drive down unemployment.Spending by consumers rose by the fastest pace in three years, ...
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