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...more downbeat message to some shoppers. "It looks more like desperation than inspiration," says retail consultant Burt Flickinger III, managing director of Strategic Resources Group. "It may be a sign that Kmart's spring and summer inventory is not selling through." And Santa certainly isn't going to save Sears and Kmart, retailers that seem increasingly irrelevant in the Walmart/Target/Home Depot world. For example, as Morgan Stanley analyst Gregory Melich writes in a recent equity research report, "Sears Holdings' underinvestment in stores has degraded its ability to withstand the magnitude of the current pullback in consumer spending." (See 10 things...
That is, if Congress will approve the boost in federal funding for two-year schools, up from just $1.9 billion in 2006. Finding the cash to pay for this proposal hinges on Obama's plan to save money by nixing subsidies to private lenders under the Family Federal Education Loan Program. That legislation faces opposition from student-loan companies and some Republicans, who say the shift to direct lending - in which Uncle Sam acts as your loan officer - will cost thousands of jobs and keep colleges from choosing between competing loan programs eager to underbid one another. (Read about...
...Even if corporations can be enlisted in the plan, there may not be enough time to save any classes for this fall. But the proposal has got some teachers thinking. Fred Chavaria, chair of the college's Administration of Justice and Fire Science department, expects four of his classes to be cancelled this fall. He is considering approaching local firemen and police officers' associations - hardly flush with cash - to sponsor endangered classes like Concepts of Law and Terrorism & Counterterrorism. "We're in a crisis," he says, while adding, "I'm not going to take anything from a gun manufacturer." (Read...
Even USA Network's escapist Royal Pains has a class-conscious premise. Idealistic Dr. Hank Lawson gets fired when he chooses to save a young patient's life before treating a hospital board member. He takes a job as a "concierge doctor" to rich summer people in New York's Hamptons, treating everything from hemophilia to deflated breast implants. It's fluff, but with a theme of modern medical feudalism: top docs attending the richest like courtiers. If your hospital waiting room has cable, watch it sometime...
...afraid that [fewer students] will get the vaccine now—especially those who are on the fence about it, or are trying to save money,” she said...