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Her job description says Madeline Adams is a social worker. But lately she's begun volunteering for tasks she never had before at the St. Louis marriage counseling agency where she works: planning events, ordering supplies, stocking shelves. She estimates she's put in hundreds of hours of unpaid overtime work.
Salary freezes, bonus reductions and unpaid furloughs have surged in recent months as companies try to survive without layoffs, and a new survey found many businesses intend to keep the cost-cutting measures after the recession eases.
Tourism industry leaders in Hawaii coping with the sharp downturn in business travel are seeking help from a native son — President Barack Obama.
A non-profit housing advocacy group said Monday it will protest at the homes of those it calls "financial predators" — investors and banking executives it says are balking at helping struggling homeowners refinance their mortgages.
Hundreds of people trying to save their homes from foreclosure flocked to a Connecticut hotel ballroom Saturday to meet with counselors about ways to refinance their mortgages amid the nation's housing market meltdown.
New power line construction is more likely in the mid-Atlantic states and the Southwest after the government on Thursday said it was pushing ahead with a plan to expand and modernize the electric grid in those areas.
President Hugo Chavez's government is taking its battle against U.S. "imperialism" into Venezuelans' dictionaries, urging state phone company workers to avoid English-language business and tech terms.
Energy officials announced Tuesday they will re-examine a decision to declare a large swath of the mid-Atlantic and two Southwest states a priority area for new power lines — a nod to those fighting proposed lines in their communities.
Countrywide Financial Corp., the nation's largest mortgage lender, said Tuesday it will begin calling borrowers to offer refinancing or modifications on $16 billion in loans with interest rates set to adjust by the end of 2008.
A Pennsylvania senator vowed Tuesday to block re-nomination of a government energy board chief until the Bush administration scales back its push for new high-voltage power lines in his state.
Avoiding alligator attacks is more about common sense From a distance, it's the eyes that first catch your attention. The reflective globes seem to hover above the water like they're autonomous. But the body they're attached to is not to be trifled with.
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