NEW YORK -- U.S. stocks ended higher Tuesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average logging a new record close, after the price of oil slumped to a 14-month low, raising hopes falling energy costs will boost consumer spending and moderate any slowdown in the economy.
NEW YORK -- U.S. stocks rallied Tuesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average on track to close at an all-time high, after the price of oil slumped to a 14-month low, raising hopes lower energy costs will boost consumer spending and moderate any slowdown in economic growth.
NEW YORK -- The Dow Jones Industrial Average punched through to an all-time high Tuesday as a drop in the price of oil to a 14-month low raised hopes that lower energy costs would serve to boost consumer spending
Companies are starting to get creative when it comes to filling jobs, looking to hire people who may be underemployed, sometimes disabled, or luring back retirees by offering flexible hours.
A few weeks ago I had an experience - one that I will remember for a lifetime. Along with several dozen teachers, I flew aboard a jet aircraft as it went through a flight profile designed to produce authentic weightlessness - the kind space travelers experience - albeit in small, bite-sized chunks.
As in Barry Lopez's book "Arctic Dreams," "the landscape forms the mindscape, and the mindscape forms the landscape." For identity purposes, our Native children must interpret the modern world with equivalent perception from within our Yupiaq world.
For 42 years, Agnes Crosson has lived in the same three-bedroom house in Quincy, Mass., where she is often visited by her 14 grandchildren. Heating her high-ceiling home has become increasingly expensive for the former social worker.
Working moms can catch a break at some Chicago-area companies, according to Working Mother magazine's annual list of the top 100 places for mothers to work.
