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Welfare professionals have a term for these persistent welfare cases: the hard to serve. Many have backgrounds that employers shun: weak education, illiteracy, drug and alcohol abuse, mental-health problems and criminal records. Often they also have logistical obstacles, like transportation and child-care difficulties. And, some argue, many of them have the toughest barrier of all: they don't want to do work...
...across the Net. His stock, traded on the NASDAQ bulletin board, is down 66%, to less than $3 a share. All 32 of his employees have stock options. The collapse "hasn't really hurt morale because business is so good, we all know we're here for the long term," he says. Still, at many Net firms, the early-year euphoria of optioned employees is gone. Net investors, many of them day-trading online, have had a comeuppance as well. Losses have driven thousands out of the market...
Rising interest rates helped bring that about. In Wall Street's perverse logic, higher rates, reflecting a robust economy--employment figures last Friday were strong--and the threat of inflation, are seen as negative because they threaten to slow the economy longer term and put off Internet profits further into the future...
...longtime Springer supporter, I'm upset that the media aren't taking his candidacy as seriously as Hillary Clinton's. Hillary has never run for office; Springer was a five-term city councilman and a two-term mayor of Cincinnati who wrestled a bear during his tenure. And while I don't know Hillary's opinions other than on health care and how mental abuse leads to randiness, Springer drops science at the end of every episode. There isn't an issue he hasn't examined. Forget Social Security and child care. This guy has looked into...
DIDN'T YOU JUST SAY NO? The anti-drug program DARE is taught in 75% of U.S. school districts, yet a new study from the University of Kentucky indicates that it has no long-term effect on kids' use of illegal drugs. In interviews with those who completed DARE in 1988, 46% admitted to smoking marijuana and 24% to taking other drugs within the past year. Researchers say programs would be more effective if they focused on kids most at risk...