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Movie Theaters Watch Their Audiences Dwindle
Comments (0) | box office, crunching numbers, Film and TV, labor day weekend, movie theater trends, movie theaters, movie ticket sales, movies
(Creative Commons)
The box office hasn't seen a slump like this since 2008.
Read more...Small Business Owners Optimistic But No Plans To Expand
Comments (0) | august, consumer spending, crunching numbers, elections, fiscal cliff, gdp, government regulation, healthcare, Holly Wade, job growth, Long Beach, Long Beach City College, National, National Federation of Independent Business, NFIB, open bookstore, politics, recession, sales, Se Reed, small business, Small Business Development Center, small business sector, small-business optimism index, taxes, Washington D.C.
No meaningful growth in the small business sector, study says.
Read more...U.S. Car Sales Motor Ahead Despite Rising Gas Prices
Comments (0) | august car sales, car sales, crunching numbers, economic indicator, Ford, gas prices, General Motors, honda, National, toyota, toyota prius
August sales figures were at their highest in five years.
Read more...Health Care Job Growth On Track Even With Summer Slowdown
Comments (0) | affordable care act, August jobs report, bureau of labor statistics, California, california hospital association, crunching numbers, economy, governor jerry brown, Health, healthcare, healthcare industry, healthcare jobs, healthcare recruiting, hospitals, jobs, Obamacare
(U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Why experts aren't worried about a slower summer of health care hiring.
Read more...Rising Home Prices Indicate A Market Turnaround
Comments (0) | bank, crunching numbers, Downtown, foreclosure, Henry Cassini, home market, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Michael Izquierdo, mortgage rate, pending home sale, real estate, rising home price, under water
Does the current rising home price indicate a turnaround of the real estate market?
Read more...Online Job Offers Up In L.A. Despite Steady Unemployment Rate
Comments (3) | crunching numbers, employment index, hiring, Los Angeles and Region, Monster, skills shortage, web design
(Monster.com)
Job postings are climbing steadily each month, but L.A.'s unemployed lack many of the most in-demand skills.
Read more...Rising Production Costs, Low Corn Yield Threaten Calif. Dairies
Comments (2) | agriculture, California, crunching numbers, dairies, dairy, dairy farmers, economic downturn, economy, epa, National, renewable fuel standard, usda, Western United Dairymen
(Flickr/Creative Commons)
Nationwide drought hits dairy farmers hard.
Read more...Refrigerated Truckers Work Around High Diesel Prices
Comments (2) | agriculture, California, california agriculture, cheese, crunching numbers, diesel fuel, Minuteman Transport, refrigerated trucking
The price of diesel has shot up in recent months. (Matt Pressberg)
Refrigerated truckers are doubly sensitive to fuel prices.
Read more...Crunching Numbers: Economic Indicators In Plain English
Comments (0) | 2012 election, 2012 Presidential Election, agriculture, crunching numbers, dairy farmers, economy, Election 2012, Housing Crisis, Media, milk, monster.com, Nation and World, oil, Oil Prices, online job offers, presidential election 2012, real estate, unemployment
(Dawn Megli/Neon Tommy)
We examine what those big numbers mean in the real world.
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