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Over the past decade, some 3,000 U.S. companies have been bought by private-equity firms. Their M.O.? Suck up companies with borrowed money, make them more efficient and then resell, turning a profit in the process. These days, nearly 1 in 10 nongovernmental employees works for a private equity-owned company, and that, says longtime industry reporter Josh Kosman, is a big problem. In his new book, The Buyout of America: How Private Equity Will Cause the Next Great Credit Crisis, Kosman argues that private-equity firms not only pillage the companies they buy, but also put the broader...
Among the projects that FDR's spending paid for was the Current Population Survey, which has measured unemployment every month since March 1940. The process - which aside from computerization and expansion has not fundamentally changed over the years - centers on interviews with a rotating sampling of 60,000 households. Workers are sorted into three categories: employed, unemployed and not in the labor force. To be counted as unemployed, a worker must have "actively looked for work" in the past month - a definition some analysts say is too narrow to capture the breadth of the economic pain. A more realistic...
...It’s just hard because it’s a process and I don’t know what the deciding factor was,” she says.“You have to make them aware that [...] it’s not that they weren’t a good candidate but they weren’t chosen...
...UMRP was founded in 1972 when the college was interested in increasing the number of minority students. According to Banks, 40 years ago the recruitment process was based on word of mouth, which accounted for the homogeneous student body...
...member of the Election Commission makes a statement. The girl starts by presenting a Justice book. She's asking for backup from Kant and Aristotle? We don't really know what's she's talking about. She seems to be saying something about justice in the student election process...