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Perfect attendance: Not just for school anymore
May 12, 2005
Companies are trying to crack down on chronic absenteeism with a time-tested formula of carrots and sticks. From the Work and Family Desk, Sandy Hausman reports.
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Health Consolidation
May 12, 2005
There's an urgent call for Americans to embrace the use of electronic medical records. Helen Palmer tells us why. Then, commentator Saj Nicole Joni advocates for another change taking place in hospitals and doctors' offices around the country.
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The recruiting within
May 11, 2005
Attracting teachers to inner-city schools has long been a challenge for many school districts. But officials in Broward County, Florida, may have come up with a solution: Recruit inner-city high school students and pay their college expenses. From the Work & Family Desk, Dan Grech reports.
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E-Commerce Buzzwords
May 10, 2005
Consumers and online businesses have a new problem to grapple with: a scam called pharming. Curt Nikisch reports. Then, there's another term that's becoming more common now among Internet retailers. It's called long-tail. Commentator Tom Standage of the Economist Magazine explains.
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Ameritrade merger
May 9, 2005
E-Trade's in talks about a possible merger with rival Ameritrade. The price tag... more than $5.5 billion dollars. Sounds like a perfect marriage. If the two companies got together, they'd barely even have to change the letterhead. But there's more to it than just cutting down on printing costs, according to reporter Dennis Berman of the Wall Street Journal:
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Post foster care
May 9, 2005
May is National Foster Care Month. The foster care system is supposed to care for children who are abused or neglected or whose parents can't care for them. But a recent study of foster care alums finds many end up hurt by the system that was supposed to protect them. And once they turn 18, they're on their own--often without the skills they need to fend for themselves. The damage takes both an emotional and economic toll. Marketplace's Hillary Wicai reports from the work and family desk:
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NYSE liquidity
May 9, 2005
The planned merger between the New York Stock Exchange and the electronic trading firm Archipelago is being challenged in court. A retired broker named William Higgins--who owns an exchange seat--says he and other seat owners should be getting more cash out of the deal. He's accusing NYSE execs of "grossly undervaluing" the exchange. Meanwhile the man behind the deal--NYSE chief John Thain--said today the lights on the exchange's famous floor won't be going out anytime soon. Marketplace's Bob Moon has that story:
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The Week on Wallstreet
May 6, 2005
Time to check the week on Wall Street with stockbroker and business analyst David Johnson in Dallas.
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Mother's Day Shopping at Goodwill
May 6, 2005
Bought your Mother's Day gift yet? Or is that on your to-do list this weekend?Commentator Jeanette Woods skips the mall and the florist. For her, a different kind of place hits the spot.
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The "Buzzword": Pump and Dump
May 6, 2005
Life is hard enough without having to decipher everything. Each week, Sound Money brings you a word or a phrase that has bubbled to the top of the news. For instance - "PUMP AND DUMP." You hear it, you see it, but do you really know it?
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