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Oil Boom Results in Women Entering a Traditionally Male Work Environment

Dated: 05-21-2012

The oil boom has found lots of takers amongst women, who saw this traditionally, male-dominated profession, as a new avenue for working and ensuring a better world for themselves and their families. Innovative technology and modern techniques, like horizontal drilling, have revealed that lands once thought to be bereft of oil, had unexploited reserves, that [...]


Miami Police Chief Proposes Remedial Measures To Address Police Shortage

Dated: 05-21-2012

The Miami Police Department is depleting, as there are more officers retiring than the ones being recruited to take their place. Slowness in fresh recruitment, however, is not due to lack of financial resources or that they do not have enough applicants, but rather due to archaic hiring practices and administrative delays. Currently the police [...]


Unable Able to Afford Retirement, Seniors Keep Working

Dated: 05-19-2012

Labor department statistics reveal that the elderly working beyond the traditional retirement age of 65 is at a record high. Their rate is soaring, as thousands of older people, on the verge of retirement; seek to boost their retirement incomes. Their number is at its highest, since the department started keeping such records. This means [...]