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  • Feb 12, 2018

    Entrepreneurs starting to see opportunities in other people’s food scraps

    Jessica Saturley-Hall, founder of the Upper Valley Compost Company, picks up a bucket full of food scraps in Grantham, New Hampshire. 
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    The Environmental Protection Agency is looking to keep food waste out of landfills. One entrepreneur in rural New Hampshire is pinning her business to that goal.

  • Feb 10, 2018

    Hey, what’s going on in the economy?

    Traders and financial professionals work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange at the closing bell on Feb. 2.
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    Five days of volatile markets, a five-hour government shutdown and one budget bill later …

  • Feb 10, 2018

    Waiting out a down market may be tough for workers headed toward retirement

    All that advice about taking a deep breath, focusing on the long term and not obsessing about the balance in your retirement accounts as the markets take a wild ride sounds a lot better when you’re not headed toward retirement soon. Click the audio player above to hear the full story. 

  • Feb 10, 2018

    Hey, wait. My hamburger just got more expensive.

    The plunge in the stock market this week has been widely ascribed to fears that inflation is coming. But for large parts of the American economy — namely, business — inflation is already here. From car companies to restaurant groups, American companies are paying higher prices for raw materials and ingredients. The Labor Department’s Producer Price Index […]

  • Feb 10, 2018

    Amazon will pilot package carrier service in Los Angeles

    As Amazon expands its logistics operations, it’s inching closer to developing a service that competes with FedEx and UPS. Shares of both package carriers fell today after news of Amazon’s new Shipping with Amazon service was reported in the Wall Street Journal. The company is piloting that service in Los Angeles, delivering some goods sold […]

  • Feb 10, 2018

    What happens when a new technology that is better for the environment also eliminates jobs?

    Longshoremen working on the ship COSCO Denmark at a non-automated terminal at the Port of Long Beach in 2010.
    Photo courtesy of the Port of Long Beach

    A union in California goes up against the rising tide of automation.

  • Feb 9, 2018

    Dan and Dave, and the most famous Olympic ad campaign of all time

    U.S. decathletes Dan O'Brien, left, and Dave Johnson at the Modesto Relays in Modesto, California, on May 16, 1992.
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    It involves Reebok, two decathletes, and one fateful day in New Orleans.

  • Feb 9, 2018

    Business cards are getting weirder

    Even in this digital age, the good old fashioned business card is far from dead. But it is getting weirder.  Some creative networkers and entrepreneurs are using oddball cards with unusual shapes and materials to stand out with potential clients. “What I found is that a lot of young people really love them because they […]

  • Feb 8, 2018

    Farm-to-table comes to a Louisiana jail

    one program that trains Licensed Vocational Nurses who work in rural areas for the state correctional system to be Registered Nurses
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    "Meals and food is the basic way that we show love and respect for one another," said the jail's warden, Catherine Fontenot. "And that’s what we need to show with people who have offended us the greatest."

  • Feb 8, 2018

    Two-year Senate budget deal provides certainty and busts spending caps

    Of course, the Senate deal has to be approved by the House and signed by President Donald Trump. But, assuming that happens, we wouldn’t have to worry about shutdowns or continuing resolutions until the end of fiscal 2019. So what then would a two-year spending plan mean for the federal government?  Click the audio player […]