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Analysis: Little sign Abe can shake up Japan's inbound FDI
ReutersTOKYO (Reuters) - Japan risks missing, yet again, an opportunity to use foreign investment to help fuel sustained economic growth that has eluded it for the last two decades. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged to make Japan "the world's easiest country...Tags: Medical Specialization, United Kingdom, Nursing Homes, Japan, Tokyo (Japan)
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Obama administration needs to change the conversation
By WILLIAM P. HOJNACKI I am very disappointed in the way that the Obama administration is dealing with the Republicans in the ongoing discussions concerning the federal budget. The administration has, once again, allowed the Republicans to set the agenda...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Labor Markets, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Government, Politics
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GBAD election: 8 candidates, many options
The Idaho StatesmanWill we build that new multisport stadium? A new convention center? Will we expand the existing Boise Centre? Something else? None of the above? Eight candidates are vying for three available seats on the five-member Greater Boise Auditorium District...Tags: Arts, Baseball, Economy, Business and Finance, Arts and Culture, Investments
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Is working remotely on the way out?
Joyce Lain Kennedy - Careers NowDEAR JOYCE: I'm a single mom working from home three days a week. I can afford a sitter two days a week. I understand that Yahoo and Best Buy ended their policies of allowing employees to work out of the office. Maybe I'm overreacting, but are we seeing...Tags: Joyce Lain Kennedy, Google Inc., Financial Aid, Conservation, Environmental Issues
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OPINION: Community can only wait, worry about outcome of faceoff at GE
Erie Times-News, Pa.The high-stakes faceoff between GE Transportation and the union representing its Erie production workers creates a sensation of being swept along by events even for those of us whose livelihoods aren't directly in play. We know how critical GE's...Tags: Job Layoffs, Layoffs and Downsizing, Employees, Tom Corbett, Career and Workplace
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Do your patriotic duty: Ask for a raise
Los Angeles TimesThe downturn we call the Great Recession officially started in 2007. But after spending the last two years talking to people who lost jobs, homes or savings during the official recession, I'd argue that the trouble actually started decades earlier....Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Employees, Finance, Career and Workplace, Prices
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Letters: America's well-paid workers
Re "Go ahead, ask for a raise," Opinion, May 14 Barbara Garson's argument rests on the claim that from 1971 to 2007, worker productivity soared while inflation-adjusted worker well-being barely budged. This premise is faulty. Garson uses wages...Tags: Employees, Career and Workplace
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Caroline Baum: Federal Reserve handicaps race of its own making
Ed Koch, the late mayor of New York City, used to stop residents on the street and ask, "How am I doing?" With next month marking the four-year anniversary of the end of the 2007-2009 recession, the longest and deepest since the Great Depression, it...Tags: The Wall Street Journal, Services and Shopping, New York City, Money and Monetary Policy, Ben Bernanke
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President's remarks at Ellicott Dredges
Remarks by President Barack Obama this afternoon at Ellicott Dredges in Baltimore, from the White House. THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Baltimore! (Applause.) Well, it is wonderful to see all of you. Give Duncan a big round of applause for the great...
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Japan PM sets targets in latest growth strategy tranche
ReutersTOKYO (Reuters) - The latest tranche of Japan's growth strategy will aim to triple infrastructure exports and double farm exports by 2020, as well as boost private investment, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Friday. The government will set a target for...Tags: Lobbying, G8, Japan, Labor Markets, Litigation and Regulation
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COLUMN - The radical force of 'Abenomics': Kaletsky
Reuters(Anatole Kaletsky is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) By Anatole Kaletsky May 17 (Reuters) - The 3.5 percent gross domestic product growth announced by Tokyo on Wednesday suggests that Japan may be the fastest-growing economy in the...Tags: Lobbying, Apple iPad, Economy, Business and Finance, Money and Monetary Policy, Japan
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Can pricey software streamline U.S. Steel?
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteU.S. Steel is spending hundreds of millions of dollars installing powerful software intended to help it manage its business more efficiently, a project that began in 2007 and that chairman and CEO John P. Surma says won't be completed until 2016....Tags: Computers and Software, Services and Shopping, Employment, Employment Opportunities, Companies and Corporations
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