The poverty rate surged to 14.3 percent last year, the highest since 1994, as the recession took its toll on incomes, the Census Bureau said Thursday.

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The Small Business Jobs Act is expected to finally pass this week, but what will it really do to help entrepreneurs?

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With millions out of work, it's a buyer's market for employees. In the economy at large, wages have risen only 1.7 percent in the past year while corporate profits are up nearly 40 percent.

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From Hewlett-Packard's purchase of 3Par and ArcSight to mining giant BHP Billiton's $38.6 billion takeover bid for Canadian fertilizer firm Potash Corp., companies are ramping up their merger activity. That may be good news for investors and consumers – but workers often pay a price.

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More than 300 companies will be hiring next week at the NBMBAA 32nd Annual Conference and Exposition in Los Angeles. You can register on-site, so find your next job at the year's largest diversity career fair.

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Congress has been under fire to pass legislation to help Main Street. Even though many small businesses are struggling, here is a handful of companies that are growing.

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Prepping for job interviews is the subject of plenty of coaching and advice. But when job interviews turn to juggle-related topics, some questions can catch interviewees completely unprepared.

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Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said China needs to allow a "significant, sustained" rise in its currency as lawmakers called for the U.S. to toughen its stance on the yuan.

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In a difficult environment for economic forecasting, consensus is disappearing and the debate on the likelihood of a second recession has polarized thinking.

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Tuition hikes are making college increasingly unaffordable. In the search for solutions, some schools are thinking outside the box.

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Leaders and supporters of historically black colleges spoke out on Wednesday against a National Science Foundation proposal that would merge three grant programs for minority-serving institutions into a single new program that would also allow awards to majority-white institutions.

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Don't forget to team up with State Farm® and MLB® to support NBMBAA. You could win a trip for 2 to the 2010 MLB® World Series® ! Visit the site, choose the National Black MBA Association as your charity, play the Go To Bat game online and swing for the fences. The more home runs you hit, the more entries you’ll get in the weekly drawing.

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The other day I was talking to Hugh Thompson, adjunct professor of software security at Columbia University and founder of consultancy People Security, about his research related to online privacy and he mentioned how easy it can be to hijack someone's e-mail account. So, I challenged him to try to steal mine.

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This week, Microsoft will officially unveil Internet Explorer 9 and make it available to the general public. It is, without question, the most ambitious browser release Microsoft has ever undertaken, and despite the beta label it is an impressively polished product.

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An enterprising manager walks into Steve Jobs' office and lays out his plan for Apple's future. "It's simple," he says. "Step one, stop giving employees bonuses. Step two, save money by doing away with our Quality Assurance process. Step three, pad our earnings in order to drive up our stock price. What do you think?"

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Terry Kennedy realized his dreams of becoming an entrepreneur and getting out of the rough Compton, California environment where he grew up.

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America’s recovery will be much slower than that from most recessions; but the government can help a bit.

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Once upon a time, America’s most wealthy people barely felt the ups and downs of the economy. Over the past few decades, though, the roller-coaster ride has become more extreme for them than for any other income group, according to a new paper by two Northwestern University economists.

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It's your last chance to attend this year's can't miss professional development and career networking event in Los Angeles.

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Many people, including engineers, teachers, bankers, museum workers and public relations aides, are concluding that they need to return to school, often years after receiving their degrees.

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Don’t expect state governments to contribute to economic growth again for a decade. The fact is, most state and local governments face an overwhelming challenge – one that will mean belt-tightening and limits on spending for years to come.

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Christine O’Donnell, the newly minted Republican Senate candidate from Delaware, may turn out to be every bit as unelectable as Karl Rove predicted she will be. But O’Donnell and her ideological allies already have succeeded in one of their aims – shaking up the Republican Party in ways that quite likely will matter long after the November elections.

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In the early 80s, corporate America got tired of Japan Inc. kicking its butt all over the place and decided to get quality. My company, Texas Instruments, made a big commitment to quality by sending every engineer to a week-long Juran training class.

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In this excerpt from his new book Power: Why Some People Have It – And Others Don't, author Jeffrey Pfeffer tells about one man's indulgences in the perks of power, and the devastating withdrawal when it was taken away.

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One promise of tablets and e-readers is that everything we read that can be held in our hands, not just books and web pages, could end up moving from static paper to a dynamic screen. Some restaurants are already taking the plunge, handing out iPads instead of menus.

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Tyler Perry joins James Cameron on the Forbes list of famous males who earn the biggest bucks.

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