Unemployment rate decreases to 7.8% in September; payroll employment rises by...
THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- SEPTEMBER 2012 The unemployment rate decreased to 7.8 percent in September, and total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 114,000, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics...
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The Explosion in Mobile Audiences and a Close Look at What It Means for News The era of mobile digital technology has crossed a new threshold. Half of all U.S. adults now have a mobile connection to...
View Article16-Year Truancy Research Project
BATON ROUGE – The LSU Office of Social Service Research and Development, or OSSRD, in the LSU School of Social Work, has determined it will end its 16-year involvement with the Truancy Assessment and...
View ArticleSub-Committee Looks at Career Services, Graduation Rates
BATON ROUGE – The third meeting of the Student Experience Sub-Committee of LSU’s Transition Advisory Team took place on Wednesday, April 3, at the LSU Energy, Coast and Environment Building. The...
View ArticleWhat Is Drugged Driving?
“Have one [drink] for the road” was once a commonly used phrase in American culture. It has only been within the past 25 years that as a Nation, we have begun to recognize the dangers associated with...
View Article66% Percent of Small Business Owners Use Mobile Technology | Constant Contact...
For those wondering if small business owners are actually using mobile technology for their business, the answer is a definitive “yes,” according to new survey data from Constant Contact®, Inc.. Of...
View Article36 sunken vessels scattered across the U.S. seafloor could pose an oil...
NOAA presented to the U.S. Coast Guard today a new report that finds that 36 sunken vessels scattered across the U.S. seafloor could pose an oil pollution threat to the nation’s coastal marine...
View ArticleIneffective Communications
High-level, executable communications strategy is essential to reducing financial risks, study says NEWTOWN SQUARE, PA, 22 March 2013 — According to the 2013 Pulse of the Profession™ In-Depth Report:...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Assets Owned by Millionaires
Just what assets do millionaires own? Let’s look at the data from the IRS’ estate returns computed during 2007-2009 for those decedants who were under 70, married at the time of their deaths and had a...
View ArticleWhat Distinguishes You as a Leader & Innovator?
350 ACTIONABLE IDEAS from Participants Distinguishing Qualities At registration for the event, we asked each participant to… Name one quality that you believe distinguishes you as a LEADER and...
View ArticleResults from 11.5 Year Study on Type 2 Diabetes
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View ArticleHOW TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLINICAL TRIAL
Do you have diabetes, high blood pressure, or just want to learn how to live a healthier life? Pennington Biomedical Research Center invites people of all ages and backgrounds to participate in the...
View ArticleDisruption in Video Delivery: Report from Rider Research
This report is a prediction of disruptive technologies that will shape digital media and video delivery in the next 10 years. Produced by Rethink Research* in association with Rider Research, this 63...
View ArticleIf You Want to Raise Prices, Tell a Better Story
Ask a CEO if they want to spend a pile of money on an analysis of their company’s story, and they’ll probably throw you out of their office. But if you tell them that you have a powerful insight that...
View ArticleBest Business School Rankings – $53,400 Per Year at #1 Harvard
A career in business starts with finding the MBA program that fits your needs. With U.S. News‘s rankings of the top business schools, narrow your search by location, tuition, school size, and test...
View ArticleTracking Happiness, A New Self-Test
Harvard Business Review has created a new test to track what makes you happy. Some of their research has uncovered that people are more happy went focused on the present then when they are...
View ArticleFrom Big Data to Big Insight
Is it possible to draw useful and actionable insights from the analysis of big data. This article tells the story of how the New York Times used data to begin to figure out what was driving traffic and...
View ArticleYour Nice Boss May Be Killing Your Career
Over a twelve-month period I have gathered data from 1,000 managers about their experiences at over 100 companies including Apple, Cisco, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Novel, and Symantec. I wanted to...
View ArticleThe Top Dining Trends Of 2013
SEATTLE, Dec. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – Urbanspoon, the leading mobile restaurant discovery application, today released the Top Dining Trends of 2013, a look at the biggest dining trends of the year,...
View ArticleThe 100 Best Jobs of 2014
All jobs aren’t created equal. In fact, some are simply better than the rest. U.S. News 100 Best Jobs of 2014 offer a mosaic of employment opportunity, good salary, manageable work-life balance and job...
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