As a leading provider of research on labor markets, people and performance, ADP today announced the biggest trends that could impact the workplace in 2019. Looking back at the state of the labor market according to the monthly ADP National Employment Report and quarterly Workforce Vitality Report, the U.S. workforce experienced historic gains in 2018. …
The U.S. housing market showed signs of cooling in many of the nation’s largest metros this month with inventory increases outpacing the rest of the country, listing prices slowing and price cuts increasing. In contrast, smaller, more affordable markets continued to see price gains, according to realtor.com’s November housing report released today. During the month…
GRC – Growth, Risk, and Compliance – has fast become the most important movement in business management. Organizations across different industries are implementing GRC solutions to improve overall management, compliance levels, and risk management. One major overlooked factor in the growth of GRC is the advancements in technology. While GRC solutions may seem similar to…
President Trump has said from the beginning that his tariffs were designed to get trading partners back to the table and to hammer out deals that benefits all parties. One of the first areas of focus was with Canada and Mexico. We are now seeing the fruit of that labor. House Ways and Means Committee…
FlyersRights.org has released 20 detailed passenger complaints of in-flight sexual assaults made to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), obtained pursuant to Freedom of Information Act requests, and posted them on its website at: https://flyersrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/DOT-Sexual-Assault-Records.pdf. Paul Hudson, president of FlyersRights.org and a former counsel to the NYS Crime Victims Board, noted, “These complaints show in…
Arkansas and Missouri will increase their minimum wage as a result of midterm election initiatives, and additional ballot measures are in the works in other states for 2020. By studying minimum wage increases in a global context, more can be learned about the health implications minimum wage increases pose for low-income populations in the…
Almost three quarters of retail consumers in the UK (those with liquid assets between £0 and £3,918) do not pay off their credit card balances in full each month, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. By contrast, less than a third of mass affluent consumers (those with liquid assets over £39,177) revolve their…
Access to bank loans for small businesses climbed last quarter signaling strength and optimism in the economy, according to the latest Private Capital Access Index (PCA Index) from Dun & Bradstreet and Pepperdine Graziadio Business School. Fifty-five percent (55%) of surveyed businesses reported successful financing with a business bank loan, a record high since the…
For many Americans, Thanksgiving weekend is a time to anticipate and look forward to the gift giving of the holiday season. For approximately 14,000 employees of GM and their families (and the many businesses that derive their income from them), that gift planning was dampened by the news that the auto maker were making numerous…
The PNC Christmas Price Index predicts True Loves will need to have more money on hand to fill the stockings on the mantle this holiday shopping season. To purchase the gifts included in the classic holiday song “The 12 Days of Christmas,” it will cost 1.2 percent more than it did in 2017, according to…
A divided Congress probably means the status quo will reign on regulation. This is a mixed bag from a free-market perspective. President Trump made some positive reforms upon taking office, but they were via executive order, and can be easily overturned by a future president—Congress needs to pass legislation to give reforms any staying power….
United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May recently announced a tentative deal for the UK’s exit from the European Union after a 2016 national referendum ended in a vote to leave the EU. In the wake of the announcement, two cabinet ministers – Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab and Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey – resigned…
By the Price of Business of Business show, Media Partner of TTUSA. James Talerico, Jr. who is a contributor on the Price of Business and a leading business consultant with Greater Prairie Business Consulting. Recently he was on the Price of Business show with Kevin Price discussing the paradigm shift in business from “recruiting” to…
By the Price of Business show, Media Partner of The Times USA. Kevin Price, host of the Price of Business show, recently interviewed New York Times best selling author, Peter Schweitzer, about a new report released by the Government Accountability Institute. The Institute’s mission is to hold government agencies accountable. According to its website, the…
By the Price of Business Show, Hosted by Kevin Price. The Price of Business is a media partner of this site. Meeting expert Mamie Kanfer Stewart, founder/CEO of Meeteor and co-author of Momentum: Creating Effective, Engaging and Enjoyable Meetings visited The Price of Business Show to speak with host Kevin Price about how to keep your meetings on track.Too often meeting…
By Marion McGovern, Special for The Times USA I am proud to be part of the leadership team of the Myers-Briggs Company that made the effort to become a Certified B Corporation. Not only did we do all of the necessary work to become certified by B Labs in a way that makes us accountable…
Today the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a landmark case brought by the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s (CEI) Center for Class Action Fairness (CCAF) challenging an unfair class action settlement in which lawyers and their hand-picked universities and pet causes got millions while class members got nothing. “The Supreme Court has an opportunity to stop…
The New Center—an organization focused on creating the space for a political center in America – today launched its website and an accompanying policy paper entitled “The Immigration Debate: The Poison Affecting Our Politics.” The New Center grew out of an unlikely partnership between Brookings Institute Scholar Bill Galston and Weekly Standard founder Bill Kristol….
According to a new survey from CompareCards.com, nothing stresses Americans out during the holiday season like shopping. Nearly two-thirds of Americans agreed with the following statement: Shopping is the most stressful part of the holiday season. That doesn’t mean that Americans hate to shop, though. In a wide-ranging series of questions about their views on…
With an estimated 270 million Americans viewing their smartphones about 14 billion times per day, the smartphone continues to reign supreme as consumers’ preferred device for online actions, as well as for controlling and monitoring many daily activities, according to Deloitte’s U.S. edition of the “2018 Global Mobile Consumer Survey.” This year smartphone penetration rose…
By the Price of Business Show, Hosted by Kevin Price. The Price of Business is a media partner of this site. You Don’t Have to be Mean to Be in the Black Which company owner are you? Company Owner #1 was really liked by his employees. His employees should like him. Employees had no controls over how…
Kevin Price, Editor at The Times USA, considers new ways to commemorate Veterans Day in a recent article for Medium…
Meredith Corporationtoday announced an agreement to sell the FORTUNE media brand for $150 million cash to Fortune Media Group Holdings Limited, wholly owned by Chatchaval Jiaravanon. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval and is expected to close in 2018. Mr. Jiaravanon is affiliated with the Charoen Pokphand Group (www.cpgroupglobal.com), an international conglomerate with businesses…
AAA projects 54.3 million Americans will journey 50 miles or more away from home this Thanksgiving, a 4.8 percent increase over last year. The 2018 holiday weekend will see the highest Thanksgiving travel volume in more than a dozen years (since 2005), with 2.5 million more people taking to the nation’s roads, skies, rails and…
There is simply no refuting that modern technology is altering whatever. Hell, simply check out what it has actually done to the Internet and online gambling. And, take a look at what innovation has done for the vehicle and manufacturing industry. Basically, modern technology has actually transformed many locations of life for lots of people….
The first book in its genre, Genius Weapons: Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Weaponry, and the Future of Warfare (Prometheus Books, November 6, 2018) by Louis A. Del Monte, delineates the new arms race between the United States, China, and Russia to develop genius weapons, weapons whose artificial intelligence greatly exceeds human intelligence and the destructive force…
Most professionals feel confident testing the employment waters, even from their current office, research suggests. In a survey from global staffing firm Accountemps, 78 percent of workers said they would feel at least somewhat comfortable looking for a new job while with their present company. More than six in 10 respondents (64 percent) indicated they’d…
On Monday, Bernie Sanders showed why he has avoided debating Lawrence Zupan, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate. Sanders also refused Zupan’s request for an additional debate. Sanders was frustrated and bewildered during much of the debate, unable to answer directly most of the questions asked, according to sources. The contrasts between the two Senate…
Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants are among the fast growing fields in the healthcare industry. Increasingly, both of these professionals are doing roles that were exclusively for MDs and ODs. This has been due to many factors, including: There’s a need for more medical professional access, particularly with our aging population in the US. NP…
By Daphne Michaels, Special for The Times USA Here is some advice that may save you a lot of anguish on your path to success. Be aware of hidden ravines of self-doubt along the way. Self-doubt can be crippling — it can keep you up at night second guessing yourself; it can undermine your plans…
ADP has released a reports that points to continued job growth in the United States. This, in spite of concerns about stock market volatility and the problem of protectionist trade policies. Private sector employment increased by 227,000 jobs from September to October according to the October ADP National Employment Report®. Broadly distributed to the public…
Adding radiation therapy or surgery to systemic therapy for stage IV lung cancer patients whose cancer has spread to a limited number of sites can extend overall survival time significantly, according to new results from a multicenter, randomized, controlled phase II study. The findings were presented last week at the 60th Annual Meeting of the…
Many Americans are afraid that they won’t be able to get health insurance if the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is repealed because they have a pre-existing condition. They forget that millions of Americans had their insurance cancelled for not meeting ACA requirements. Whatever condition they had went instantly from being covered to being “pre-existing,” states…
Several groups have decried the mass killing at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council The Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council (MJAC) is shocked and outraged by the horrendous act of terror committed inside the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Saturday. The attacker, who was apprehended by law enforcement, killed at least eleven people and injured six…
Cyberlitica, Inc, a provider of Dark Web monitoring and cyber awareness services, announced today that its research team has discovered that at least 25 states’ confidential voter registration databases (including those from Florida, Georgia, Texas, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania) are openly for sale on the Dark Web. Additional states…
President Trump must urge lawmakers to return from the campaign trail and address the glaring loopholes in our asylum and immigration laws that are being used to promote an organized assault on our nation’s border, according to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). Ignoring the current crisis to focus on reelection would amount to a…
A new report released today by the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (ILR) shows that the cost and compensation paid in the U.S. tort system totaled $429 billion—or 2.3 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP)—in 2016. Despite those numbers, the study shows that the system delivered only 57 cents of every dollar…
The following statement is from the Alzheimer’s Association: Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor continues to demonstrate her leadership in the face of adversity, today bravely announcing her diagnosis of dementia, possibly Alzheimer’s. In all aspects of her life Justice O’Connor has been a transparent leader, and being forthcoming about her diagnosis is another…
According to a new survey from Ally Invest, the online trading and automated investing arm of Ally Financial Inc., nearly two-thirds of survey respondents (65%) say they find investing in the stock market to be scary and/or intimidating, up from 61% in a similar survey during the same period last year. Fear is highest among…