Five Ways You Can Encourage Your Family to Save Money Soaring gas prices and worries about the economy make most financial matters anything but fun right now. But it still helps to take a lighter approach to money issues when you can.
Single Parents Face Special Financial Challenges It's tough enough to plan for the financial future in a traditional two-parent family. The task is even harder for families headed by one parent.
Freddie Mac Moves Toward Issuing Stock Mortgage financier Freddie Mac took a step toward issuing common and preferred stock to help bolster its balance sheet Friday when the Securities and Exchange Commission accepted its registration statement filed earlier in the day.
What's Next for General Motors? General Motors Corp. this week announced that it is taking some tough cost-cutting medicine that will fundamentally change how it does business. The moves are designed to help the auto giant survive through the industry's monumental changes.
AAU Junior Olympic Games No need flying to Beijing to witness greatness. Get an eyeful of top competition at the largest multi-sport youth event in the nation, the 2008 AAU Junior Olympic Games, coming next week to metro Detroit.
State Universities Join Forces to Fund Tech Startups Michigan's 15 public universities are launching a new economic innovation initiative with an aim of raising $75 million to create 200 Michigan startup companies.
UM Named a Great Place to Work The University of Michigan has been named one of the 2008 Great Colleges to Work For by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Podcast: Chrysler Moves into Hybrids In an "Automotive Insights" report, WWJ Newsradio 950's John McElroy talks about Chrysler's new hybrid SUVs.
Podcast: Making a Difference In a "Making a Difference" report, WWJ Newsradio 950's Bill Stevens talks with a retired eduacator helping out young women lead better lives.
Podcast: Russell Industrial Center Thousands of commuters drive by Detroit's Russell Industrial Center, visible from I-75 in Detroit, every day. Many don't have a clue about what is going on behind the walls of those old buildings.
The Internet--a private eye's best friend
Private investigator explains how he can find almost anything out about anyone using the Internet, cell phones, cameras, and video cameras in a world where privacy is just as good as dead.
India's outsource giants feeling the pinch
Infosys, Tata, and Wipro blame global economic conditions, with the former warning the new quarter may be difficult too, as companies postpone decisions on outsourcing.
Facebook sues German rival
Social-networking giant, which launched its own German language version earlier this year, asserts that StudiVZ simply replaced Facebook's "blue color scheme with a red one."
This Week's Newsletter
Daily Dash - July 18, 2008 Many depositors who flocked to withdraw money from California's IndyMac Bank this week suddenly were faced another problem: Where will their money be safe?
Daily Dash - July 17, 2008 General Motors Corp. this week announced that it is taking some tough cost-cutting medicine that will fundamentally change how it does business. The moves are designed to help the auto giant survive through the industry's monumental changes.
Daily Dash - July 16, 2008 A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling about age discrimination in the workplace, an aging workforce, and an increasing number of layoffs in the face of worsening economic conditions all are creating an environment ripe for a surge of age-discriminationlawsuits, many business leaders say.
Daily Dash - July 15, 2008 Half of advertising and marketing executives polled has said a colleague has tried to make them look bad on the job. Even more – 70 percent – say the correct response for that kind of sabotage is to directly confront the offender.
Daily Dash - July 14, 2008 According to the Tampa, Fla.-based Institute for Business & Home Safety, at least a fourth of all businesses that close because of a disaster – such as a fire, flood, tornado or massive equipment failure – never open their doors again.
Where is the talent for our new economy? Our “back to the future” economy must be fueled by a more highly trained and educated workforce. Therein lies one of our greatest challenges. You see, the downsizing of manufacturing operations in some of our largest corporations coupled with the offshore movement of low-skilled jobs have created a tremendous public misconception that technical fields like engineering, and even the sciences, are no longer good areas for intellectual and career pursuit.
2 Opportunities to Participate Regular readers of CEO Corner are familiar with the 2-1-1 On the Go! program launched by the Downtown Detroit Partnership (DDP), working with the United Way of Southeast Michigan, to seek out the homeless and offer them the opportunity to gettheir lives back together.
Nurturing the entrepreneurial culture Everyone is well aware of the economic challenges facing Michigan and the Great Lakes Region in general. The massive loss of manufacturing jobs in the region has painted an image of pessimism about the region and has destroyed the hopes of many whohave been tied exclusively to an old economy.
IT help close to home If you’ve ever had to call an IT specialist on an 800 number to solve a problem you’re having with your computer, there’s a good chance the person on the other end of the line has been talking to you from another part of the world.Unless, that is, you are an employee of Wayne County.
Don't Take Voting for Granted Like many others, I’ve been following this year’s presidential race with considerable interest. It one of the most exciting in memory. Also like many Americans, I have at times taken for granted the freedoms and rights that we have in this country. I’ve been a consistent voter since I became old enough to vote but, frankly, I didn’t give it that much thought.
Serving the Community One of the secrets of our success at Strategic Staffing Solutions (S3) is that we never rest on our laurels. No matter how well we do in a given effort, we always believe there are ways to improve and we seek to identify ways we can improve. We apply that philosophy to our business activities and to our community involvement activities as well.
Cynthis J. Pasky: Community Involvement and Charitable Giving It takes much more than a strong bottom line to make running a business a truly rewarding experience. Financial success, if it is not coupled with a strong commitment to community involvement, can be a very hollow success.
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