The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the Great Place to Work Institute, Inc. (GPTWI) announced the nation’s top 25 small and top 25 medium-sized companies to work for in America. The winners and their rankings were revealed in New Orleans at SHRM’s 61st Annual Conference and Exposition, the largest gathering of HR professionals [...]
Carolinas AGC Construction Barometer(TM) For first quarter 2009, the Carolinas AGC Construction Barometer(TM) posted a modest 3.3% gain due to growing empirical evidence of a slowing rate of economic deterioration in Carolinas commercial construction. The rate of downward change in first quarter was much less severe than the drop in activity experienced in latter 2008. [...]
Consumer Watchdog called upon President Obama to prioritize the purchase of an insurance policy for victims of defective GM vehicles in the company’s bankruptcy over the “cash-for-clunkers” program. Read the letter to the President at http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/resources/LtrObamaReGM.pdf. “The same $1 billion allocated for clunkers could purchase an insurance policy in the GM bankruptcy proceeding to provide [...]
Financial Trust Index Researchers Study Economic and Moral Factors In Strategic Default While the Obama administration’s housing policy has been largely influenced by a study of the Boston housing market during the 1990-91 recession in which homes devalued by approximately 10 percent, new research suggests that a novel phenomenon is at hand in the fallout [...]