By Bill Conerly, Businomics, Conerly Consulting LLC Consumers continue to increase their savings.  Here’s the recent behavior.  (Note that the first spike, in mid-2008, came from the stimulus checks.) Is the recent run-up of savings the new trend?  Let’s look at more history.

By Sarah Stevens, Human Resources Consultant AmeriBen/EIC Group With the expanded definition of a disability resulting from the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act (ADAAA), Human Resources professionals and managers are often confused on how alcoholism fits within the Americans with Disabilities (ADA) Act, as well as, how to handle employees […]

Social Security Online — Currently, our telephone agents can verify up to five employee SSNs for employers. Beginning fall 2009, Social Security will no longer provide this service. You must use TNEV or SSNVS to verify SSNs. Employees who verify SSNs for their employers must be registered SSNVS users in […]

Barran Liebman LLP Electronic Alert As of June 2, 2009, the federal government has issued yet another delay in the implementation of the new E-Verify requirement for federal contractors. The E-Verify requirement is now scheduled to become effective on September 8, 2009. The details of the new E-Verify requirement were […]

Golden Dragon fires up trade opportunities between China and the US by Kristie Connor, Oregon Entrepreneurs Network Danny Yan, started the Golden Dragon International Trade Corp. in 2004 with the dream of developing a company that will one day be the eBay of international trade for both business and consumer […]

Advertising and Quantitative Analysis: The Trial and Error Economy Comes to Madison Avenue By Bill Conerly, Businomics, Conerly Consulting LLC The New York Times has an article about quantitative analysis coming to the advertising industry.  In the old days, ad agencies labored for months to create the perfect ad–perfect being […]

Why did Eugene Get the State University and Salem the State Pen? Salem Got First Choice By Fred Thompson Oregon Economics Blog When unemployment rates are pushing 12 percent, it’s hard to remember that economic growth and development is not simply about jobs, but that is the case. The sine […]

Timothy Duy Director, Oregon Economic Forum The PMBI tumbled 6% compared to the final quarter of 2008, and is down 16.4% from year ago levels. Highlights of the report include: • Labor markets remain soft. Initial unemployment claims continued to climb during the quarter, while help wanted advertising declined.  The […]