Snyder then ended collective bargaining rights and employee status for almost 26,000 child-care workers belonging to the United Auto Workers and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Schools in Highland Park and Pontiac …

The rise in demand for public services is expected to push more affluent Indonesians toward private sector medical care, seeking either faster or higher quality service. This business opportunity has not gone unnoticed. At the end of last year, Lippo …

The affluent are behind much of the growth in retail and food service spending, since for every dollar a middle-class household spends at retail, the affluent spend $2," Danziger said. "These findings point to a strong back-to-school shopping season …

The plan, among other things, would provide security for broadband infrastructure, encourage a reduction in the costs of deploying infrastructure, use the regulatory bodies to ensure better performance levels of broadband services and use existing …

Instead, they must travel high into the Appalachian Mountains for “Project Appalachia,” a weeklong service trip to Kingwood, W.Va., where the teenagers help the less fortunate by working on their homes. The event is organized by Catholic Charities USA …

Now that Manhattan real estate is increasingly out of reach to middle- and upper-middle-class residents, immediate peripheries are developing in the image of affluent Manhattan and its professional commuters. … In Union City, for example, MyFoxNY …

Like the stock, Penney's bonds, long since fallen deep into junk status with a CCC- rating, have taken it on the chin as the store group's sales have plunged amid a disastrous pricing and marketing strategy and a failed attempt to appeal to the more …

The Australia-PNG regional resettlement arrangement and the “no advantage” policy are based on the incorrect assumption that asylum seekers come to Australia because it's an “easy” entry point into the affluent Western lifestyle via established people …

Public defecation, violent drunken fights, drugs, and prostitution-all things residents say was the unfortunate reality in their affluent Norfolk neighborhood of Ghent. “This guy had a two by four and he was just beating another homeless man,” said …