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...Where money does matter is in training costs. New York City will pay about $25,000 to attract and train each of its fellows, including paying for each recruit to earn a master's in education. In this year's budget, Levy requested $50 million to expand the program. Cities including San Jose, Calif.; Denver; Baton Rouge, La.; and Kansas City, Mo. will have fast-track programs by the end of the year. Critics say that money would be better spent on bonuses to retain teachers already on staff, a fifth of whom leave the profession after three years...
...course for sustained moderate, healthy growth. Actually, that still appears true. Economists surveyed by London's Consensus Economics are predicting that U.S. gross domestic product will grow less than 2% in 2001 - down from a blistering 5% last year - but they expect European Union economies to expand by roughly 2.6%, off only slightly from last year's 3.2%. But try telling that to investors: last week Europe's bourses fell right alongside the Dow and the NASDAQ. London's FTSE 100 index lost 6%, while the Paris cac 40 fell 5% and Frankfurt's dax closed down 7%. And that...
...complacency - and there seems to be plenty of that to go around. Buoyed by the recent good news, Britain's Labour government plans to increase its spending. In Germany, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has come under fire from business groups angry at the government's moves to expand labor rights, which they say will cut into already weakening economic growth. The government is standing by a forecast of at least 2.6% growth this year, but the Federation of German Banks dropped its expectation down to 2.2%. Germany is more vulnerable to the U.S. downturn because it tends to have...
Last week government officials finally admitted what everyone else has known for a long time: Japan is in a deflationary spiral. This is where it gets dangerous. Companies aren't investing, so they don't expand, so unemployment rises, so people put off spending, so prices decline, so people save their money because they figure things will cost less in three months or a year than they...
Broadband growth figured to be limitless. Given that every business and every household is moving online, data transmission has been expanding at phenomenal rates. But as phone companies and Internet service providers sprang up everywhere, capacity raced light-years ahead of demand. So the price for using the pipes tumbled, hobbling the telcos' ability to expand and to buy more gear. "Never in the history of industry has the sheer number of competitors been so underestimated and misunderstood," says former AT&T Broadband president Leo Hindery. "And never have the implications of technology advancement been so misunderstood as well...