Sarah Shemkus is an award-winning freelance journalist, marketing enthusiast, accomplished baker, occasional globetrotter and total nerd (with a particular fondness for spreadsheets). Most recently, she reported on business and real estate for the Cape Cod Times, covering issues that ranged from health insurance reform and immigrant labor to entrepreneurship and tourism.
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Increasing the Minimum Wage: Pros & Cons
Supporters of a minimum wage increase argue it will help America's poor earn more, while providing an economic stimulus. But opponents claim it will end up hurting unskilled laborers. In the heat of a contentious election season, will … Read more...
New Law Helps Find Jobs for Veterans
The VOW to Hire Heroes Act, signed into law in November 2011, calls for the creation of a program that pays for unemployed veterans to receive training in fields where skilled workers are in high demand, as determined by the U.S. Department … Read more...
How the Fall of the Euro Will Affect Us All
Europe. Land of classic artistic masterpieces, of perfect flaky croissants, of crushing debt that threatens to destabilize the global economy. Read more...
May's Unemployment Numbers Show Relief for Hardest Hit States
In Michigan, the jobless rate fell from 10.6 percent in May 2011 to 8.5 percent last month. Nevada's unemployment rate fell from 13.7 percent to 11.6 percent over the same period, and Florida's rate fell from 10.6 percent to 8.6 percent. Read more...
Home Ownership Among Young People Declining
Nationally, the number of homes occupied by owners edged up about 1 percent between 2005 and 2010, according to numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey. The number of units occupied by owners under 35, however, … Read more...
10 Work Lessons You Can Learn from Mad Men
While the expectations for workplace behavior have certainly changed since the 1960s, this season of Mad Men still offered up a few useful lessons for today's ambitious professional. Read more...
Take Harvard and MIT Classes for Free!
Two of the country's premier academic institutions -- the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University -- have joined forces to launch an online education initiative that might just "reinvent education," according to Anant … Read more...
Need a Job? Move to the Midwest
The Midwest continued to be the best place for job-seekers last month, according to data recently released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The states in the center of the country had an average unemployment rate of 7.2 percent in … Read more...
Group Work: Do You Play Well With Others?
In high school, when the teacher announced that the next project would involve working in groups, it was not uncommon for a murmur of discontent to ripple through the room. What if I get stuck with that know-it-all or worse, that really … Read more...
Make Expiring Tax Cuts Work for You
It has been just a few blessed weeks since April 15, when we all emerged from stacks of 1099s and W-2s and declared ourselves ready to forget about taxes for another year. Not so fast. The tax cuts put in place during the previous … Read more...
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