by Virginia Chen, Dean DeChiaro & Emily Hoerner | Oct 20, 2010 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The United Nations on Wednesday stuck to a prediction that the world population will grow by roughly a third by 2050, underscoring the worries about population growth that have contributed to rising prices of agricultural commodities. The...
by Yewon Kang | Oct 14, 2010 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — Mobile carriers would have to alert consumers before they face overcharges on their phone bills under new rules the Federal Communications Commission considered on Thursday. The proposed rule would require mobile service providers to inform users about...
by Nick Kariuki & Xiaolan Tang | Oct 13, 2010 | Business & Tech
Get the Flash Player to see this content. WASHINGTON — With the enactment of the Small Business Job Creation bill, small businesses like Capitol Hill Bikes are expected to get more tax breaks. The idea is that owners will invest that money into growing their...
by Yewon Kang | Oct 12, 2010 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — State and local schools are bracing for the impact when the money they received from the stimulus package comes to an end next year. Public schools have shed nearly 58,000 teachers and other education workers this year because the economy has not...
by Virginia Chen, Dean DeChiaro & Emily Hoerner | Oct 7, 2010 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — The U.S. government has an addiction with spending money, and it doesn’t seem to be getting better anytime soon. The current national debt, as calculated by the Treasury as a summation of debt held by the public and intergovernmental holdings, is at...
by Yewon Kang | Oct 6, 2010 | Business & Tech, Topics
WASHINGTON — With their economies driving global output, Asian countries are going to press for better representation on the International Monetary Fund board during the weekend’s meetings of the IMF and the World Bank, an expert on East Asia said Wednesday. Homi...
