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Natural Perspectives: Rainbow isn't stealing our gold
Some people in town are upset because our trash collection fees may go up.
Like other homeowners, Vic and I got the notice that the city of Huntington Beach is proposing to raise the residential trash collection fees. Vic thought the proposed fee...Tags: California, Natural Gas, Vehicles, Petroleum Industry, Consumers
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The day ahead in business May 23
Reports: Initial jobless claims for week ended May 18, 7:30 a.m.; PMI manufacturing flash index for May, 7:58 a.m.; FHFA housing price index for March, 8 a.m.; New home sales for April, 9 a.m.; Mortgage rates for week ended May 23, 9 a.m.; Natural gas...
Tags: Gap Inc., Shoe Carnival Incorporated, Advance Auto Parts Incorporated, GameStop Corp., Dollar Tree Inc.
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Initial jobless claims drop to 340,000 after one-week spike
WASHINGTON -- Initial unemployment claims dropped back to a level indicating moderate job growth last week after a spike the previous week raised alarms about the labor market recovery. The number of people filing for unemployment benefits for the first...
Tags: Federal Reserve, Employment Opportunities, Unemployment Rate, Labor Markets, Verizon Communications
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Early Easter leaves Orlando hotels with April hangover
After four months of year-over-year growth, business dipped in April at Orlando-area hotels, likely because of an early Easter this year and the absence of a couple of big conventions in town. Hotels in the Orlando market filled 72.6 percent of their...
Tags: International Drive, Orlando Hotels, Trips and Vacations, Travel, Consumer Confidence
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Why the medical device tax needs to stay
The chief drawback of a law as complex as the Affordable Care Act, the health insurance reform measure passed in 2010, is that it provides self-interested opponents a multitude of places to stick a wedge in and hammer away. But you'd be hard-pressed...Tags: Medicaid, Employment Opportunities, U.S. Congress, Dianne Feinstein, Science and Technology
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Higher consumer spending will offset sequester cuts, economists say
WASHINGTON -- Consumers will help keep economic growth on track this year, as new projections of their spending indicate it will offset the hit to the recovery from the federal government's automatic budget cuts, a panel of economists said Monday. The...
Tags: Politics, National Government, Labor Markets, Consumers, Government
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Unemployment continues to fall as consumer confidence rebounds
A surging stock market and rebounding housing prices are translating into a robust job market in South Florida. South Florida's unemployment continued its decline in April, dropping a notch to 5.6 percent in Broward and 6.8 percent in Palm Beach County,...Tags: Employment Opportunities, Stock Market, Unemployment Rate, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Rick Scott
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Caroline Baum: Federal Reserve handicaps race of its own making
Ed Koch, the late mayor of New York City, used to stop residents on the street and ask, "How am I doing?" With next month marking the four-year anniversary of the end of the 2007-2009 recession, the longest and deepest since the Great Depression, it...Tags: Federal Reserve, Dow Jones Industrial Average, New York City, Money and Monetary Policy, Labor Markets
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Md. sheds 6,200 jobs in April, Labor Department says
Maryland employers slashed 6,200 jobs in April, cutting short a string of gains, the U.S. Department of Labor said Friday, as the state began feeling the pinch of federal budget sequestration and cutbacks in consumer spending. But the government's...Tags: Business, Moody's Corporation, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Employment Opportunities, Fort Meade (military base)
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'I know it when I see it'
In the 1964 U.S. Supreme Court case Jacobellis v. Ohio, Justice Potter Stewart wrote a concurring opinion he hoped would establish a legal standard that protected every American's right to free speech yet guarded community standards against hard core...Tags: The Washington Post, U.S. Supreme Court, Washington, DC, U.S. Congress, Insurance
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The day ahead in business May 16
Reports: Initial jobless claims for week ended May 11, 7:30 a.m; Consumer price index for April, 7:30 a.m.; Housing starts/building permits for April, 7:30 a.m.; Philadelphia Fed survey for May, 9 a.m.; Mortgage rates for week ended May 16, 9 a.m.;...
Tags: Singapore Airlines, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Petroleum Industry, JC Penney Company Inc., Consumer Confidence
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Initial jobless claims jump to 360,000, most since March
WASHINGTON -- Initial jobless claims unexpectedly jumped to a six-week high of 360,000 last week after declining to a post-recession low this month, the Labor Department said Thursday. The number of people filing for the first-time for unemployment...
Tags: Unemployment Benefits, Employment Opportunities, Easter, Employment, Unemployment Rate
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