Generally, how much time people get off from work is determined by their companies. This can cover periods that are relatively short, which is generally two weeks, and those that are much longer, at as much as a month. Sometimes the number of years someone has been an employee is taken into account. The national average, according to the BLS, […]
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San Francisco (CNN Business)As America seeks to train workers for the hundreds of thousands of new infrastructure jobs that are being created, it will have to lean heavily on community colleges. But these workhorses of workforce development are facing some infrastructure issues of their own. Pandemic-related declines in enrollment, particularly in hands-on skilled trades courses, have only made things worse […]
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Since 1980, the cost of college, including tuition and fees, has risen by an average of 1,200%. This has priced many students out of the ability to afford higher education unless they take out student debt. That debt has become a burden for many. Student loans taken out in 2020 averaged almost $30,000, according to U.S. News. Student debt in […]
Read moreCommercial landlord reports rebound in shoppers, workers and revellers across Soho, Chinatown and Covent Garden Last modified on Fri 4 Feb 2022 08.31 EST Shaftesbury, which owns swathes of Chinatown, Soho and Covent Garden, said West End crowds were returning despite the Omicron variant, with the prospect of an extended period of uninterrupted trading. The landlord, which owns a 16-acre […]
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Super Bowl LVI, set for February 13 at LA’s SoFi Stadium, will have a decidedly different feel than last year’s edition. For starters, the stadium will be full. A year ago, the game vividly reflected the grueling early phase of Covid, as Tampa Bay’s Raymond James Stadium hosted 24,835 fans, one-third of whom were newly vaccinated health care workers. This […]
Read moreSSP, which operates fast food chains at railway stations and airports, is ‘well positioned’ for summer Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Last modified on Fri 4 Feb 2022 09.55 EST The owner of the Upper Crust sandwich chain has reported a drop in sales as concerns about the Omicron coronavirus variant kept customers at home but […]
Read moreAverage price of home rose to £255,556 in January from December, says Nationwide Last modified on Tue 1 Feb 2022 03.10 EST Britain’s housing market has made its strongest start to the year since 2005, with annual house price growth rising to 11.2%, according to the UK’s biggest building society. Nationwide said the average price of a home hit £255,556 […]
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California-based Blaine Labs Co. is recalling one lot of RevitaDerm Wound Care to the consumer level citing the potential contamination with Bacillus cereus, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said. The product is used as a skin wound antimicrobial. It is packaged in a 1.0 ounce bottle and a 3.0 ounce tube with each labeled as “RevitaDerm Wound Care Gel” […]
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Snap said daily active users hit 319 million, up by 54 million or 20% for the fourth quarter from the year before. It beat on revenue and profit and had a better than expected outlook in sales and users. The shares surged in after-hours trading in a crazy day for social media stocks. Snap shares plunged 24% earlier today in […]
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