Article Summary: More positive outlook of affluent consumers' financial status corresponded to a 15.9 percent uptick from last quarter in their spending on luxury and high-end goods and services.

It's simple! Everyone needs to put pressure on our public schools in order for them to get better. Not just lip-service pressure, or I-might-pull-my-kid-out pressure, but real flesh-and-blood-offspring pressure. … (I went to school in suburban St …

Notes the newspaper: "Midtown offers Northside access to a different, though still affluent, patient base. In Midtown, it can splash its name across the top of a tower overlooking a district filled with big professional service firms and wealthy …

Right At Home, a 300-office American corporation, has just opened its first Canadian franchise, in the affluent Toronto-area city of Burlington, aiming for a profitable niche between public services and what well-off seniors might want. Mark Goliger …

It's all part of a plan to make neighborhoods take care of their own trash. It's also a way to appear fair and strong-willed for having the guts to dump 1800 to 5000 tons of garbage a day on a wealthy area. In truth, it's a linguistic bait-and-switch …

This more positive outlook of affluent consumers' financial status corresponded to a 15.9 percent uptick from last quarter in their spending on luxury and high-end goods and services. These results are based upon the most recent luxury tracking survey …

In the global financial crisis, Australia was one of just three affluent countries to avoid a recession. Since Labor has been in power, …. Now they save 10 per cent of their income, and the shops and service providers are hurting. The Reserve Bank …

For the youth and high school players who legally are children in the care of adults, assumption of risk does not carry the weight it does when cited by colleges or the pros. There may be many big awards coming. Awards in the millions per player harmed …

While some of this is due to New York's status as the home to a lot of really rich people, it also points to a decline in the middle class, as jobs paying less than $35,000 replaced the jobs the recession stripped away. Given this, income inequality …