Ne-Yo And Wyclef Headline Black Enterprise/Pepsi Golf & Tennis Challenge Labor Day 2011

Ne-Yo, Wyclef Jean, Hill Harper, Anthony Anderson, Mark Curry and Ledisi will join more than 1,000 of the nation’s top African American professionals, business executives and entrepreneurs in Miami for the Black Enterprise/Pepsi Golf & Tennis...

Meaningless Statistics

The BBC tried to spin it as a positive story: US President Barack Obama’s massive stimulus package has created up to 1.1m jobs, according to the White House. The $787bn (£472bn) package, known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,...

Air Transport Association Projects 3.5% Year-Over-Year Drop in Passengers During 2009 Labor Day Holiday Travel Period

The Air Transport Association of America (ATA), is forecasting that 16 million passengers* will travel globally on U.S. airlines during the eight-day 2009 Labor Day holiday period, spanning Wed., Sept. 2 through Wed., Sept. 9.

Temp Industry’s Success May Cause Managers to View All Workers As Impermanent

Temporary help agencies place nearly 3 million Americans in jobs each day — but the temp industry’s very success may embolden some managers to view all workers as impermanent, jobs scholar Vicki Smith argues in her latest book, “The...

Paid Maternity Leave Still on the Wishlist for Many U.S. Mothers

This Mother’s Day, we reflect on the critical but often overlooked issue of maternity leave. In a selection of 19 countries with comparable per capita income, the United States provides the fewest maternity leave benefits in both length of leave...