With the labor participation rate at 50-year lows and millions of Americans no longer counted as unemployed, many Americans are convinced the American Dream is in need of a bailout. But what does that look like? “Radical realism” — not socialism — may very well be the answer.
Oil companies say that demand will never be the same and that refinery cutbacks are necessary to boost sagging profits. Meanwhile, more cash-strapped shoppers are looking to save money and time shopping online. What do these seemingly separate trends have to do with one another? A lot more than you might think. Learn why e-commerce may contribute to increasing fuel prices, inflation and a retail landscape of tomorrow that hardly resembles anything we know today.
Curt Eysink is an unpopular man. Less than three months after assuming his post as executive director of the Louisiana Workforce Commission, he told a panel charged with overhauling the state's higher education system: "We're producing a workforce that we cannot employ in Louisiana." The apparent problem? Too many four-year college grads and not enough low-skill and vocational trade workers. …