Amazon plans to retrain 100,000 employees

  The training, which will be voluntary, expands upon Amazon’s existing programs and initiatives. The idea is to help Amazon (AMZN) employees progress into more advanced jobs or even new positions outside of the company. It will be available to 100,000 workers by 2025, according to […]

Dow hits 27,000 for first time ever

  Futures are pointing at a higher open, with those for the Dow (INDU) are up 0.3%, while those for the S&P 500 (SPX) and the Nasdaq Composite (COMP) are up 0.2%. The Nasdaq closed at a new all-time high of 8,203 points on Wednesday, surpassing a […]

Experimental Ebola treatments effective in lab study

  Prevention who lead the research, said the two treatments were developed based on strains from previous outbreaks and this study was the first to test them on the current one, which researchers are calling the Ituri strain. “It’s vitally important to make sure existing […]

Louisiana braces for weekend hurricane and flooding

  A potential tropical storm brewing in the Gulf of Mexico presents twin troubles for coastal Louisiana and Mississippi — the possibility that the flooded Mississippi River will be lapping at the tops of levees this weekend, and a danger of flash floods like the […]

A New Approach on Housing Affordability

A growing number of Americans are struggling to cope with the high and rising cost of rental housing in the United States. On any given night last year, more than half a million Americans were homeless. Nearly 11 million households managed to keep a roof […]