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...translate their maternal skills (negotiation, time management) into corporate argot. Mom Corps, a staffing company that pairs women with white collar jobs that have flexible hours, in February surveyed its 500 most recent registrants: 63% said the economy was driving their decision to look for work. Five percent said they joined because their spouse was laid...
According to Pesaturo, subway ridership dropped 2.9 percent in January...
National Free Applications for Federal Student Aid are at three million for the 2009-2010 school year, an increase of 20 percent over the same processing period last year, according to a release by the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators on Friday. The government’s direct student loan program is also up by $7 billion this academic year, according to NAFSAA. The increase in applications for financial aid at Harvard maps with the national increase in FAFSA applications. This year, the number of financial aid applicants increased from 73 to 78 percent of the undergraduate population...
...Jerome R. Picca, co-owner of Small Plates. “Talking to a lot of my friends who either own restaurants or manage restaurants or are thinking of opening a restaurant, what they’re talking about is that their sales are down from 20 to 50 percent.” He said that the biggest casualty has been high-end restaurants, particularly ones that opened recently and have not had time to develop loyal customer bases.Small Plates’ opening coincided with the beginning of the recession in late 2007, unfortunate timing that the tapas restaurant...
Since the financial crisis hit Russia late last summer, more than 1.5 million Russians have lost their jobs and the ruble has lost a third of its value. On Friday the State Statistics Service reported that the annualized inflation rate had jumped to 13.9 percent - a four month high. The government predicts that the economy will shrink by 2.2% this year while the cost of buying an average monthly basket of food for an adult male in January was $61.34, up from $53.53 a year earlier. (The average monthly salary in Russia is $490.51, according to state figures...