• Your Year-End Money-Saving Tax Check

    By Erik Sherman, The Fiscal Times

    The holiday season includes some less-than-pleasant traditions: mall traffic jams, email spam, petrified fruitcake – and last-minute tax adjustments. Now that Congress has finally passed (again) the...

  • Telltale Signs You’re in the Wrong Job

    By Marla Gottschalk, Government Executive

    At some point in our work lives, many of us will find ourselves in the wrong job. (I hear of this quite often.) Specific fault can be difficult, and likely futile to assign. However, one day you may...

  • Corporate Perks That Make It Really Hard to Quit Your Job

    By Lucy Maher, CNBC

    Can't find time to have your car washed? Or to get your prescription drugs filled? Employees at a growing number of companies are relying on their employers to handle those errands. San Francisco-...

  • Guess Where Most Skilled Immigrants Are Going

    By Emilio Zagheni, The Conversation

    The United States has always been known as a nation of immigrants and a top destination for scientists and other highly skilled professionals. That ability to attract the world’s most educated and...

  • Some 32,000 private jobs were added in April, exceeding forecasts but still a very modest showing.

    Millennials Rejecting Government Jobs May be Making a Big Mistake

    Despite a surge of interest in the government after President Obama’s first election, federal employment of young people is tailing off and many Millennials bailing out. But in light of an even...