JANUARY 2005

Keep Your Résumé Current

Workers are switching jobs more often than in the past. Among the reasons are changes in technology, changes in demographics and changes in such institutions as unions and international trade.

What Is Driving Oil Prices?

Besides supply and demand, speculation is drawing a lot of attention these days as a cause of higher oil prices..

Wage Gap Widens in District

Over the past 30 years, the gap between what workers at the high end of the scale earn compared with wages at the low end of the scale has widened dramatically. The divide is especially pronounced today in cities.