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    May 13, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Cars, home improvement give April retail sales a boost

    Spring’s arrival late in April gave retail sales a light boost as Americans emerged from hibernation to spend on cars, gardening goods and building supplies.
    Spring’s arrival late in April gave retail sales a light boost as Americans emerged from hibernation to spend on cars, gardening goods and building supplies. From March to April, sales rose a slight 0.1% after declining a revised 0.5% from...

    Tags: Vehicles, Services and Shopping, Economic Indicator, Petroleum Industry, Home Improvement

    2. Apr 17, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Swift, hopeful reaction to immigration bill

    WASHINGTON – An eagerly awaited immigration overhaul from a bipartisan group of senators arrived early Wednesday, an 844-page bill that both the political left and right now see as the best chance in decades to achieve fix a broken immigration system.
    WASHINGTON – An eagerly awaited immigration overhaul from a bipartisan group of senators arrived early Wednesday, an 844-page bill that both the political left and right now see as the best chance in decades to achieve fix a broken immigration...

    Tags: Chuck Schumer, Luis Gutierrez, Illegal Immigrants, Janet Napolitano, Career and Workplace

    3. Mar 11, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Despite sequestration, U.S. cargo volume to increase 2.3% in March

    Cargo volume at the nation's ports is expected increase in March, despite port slowdowns as a result of automatic federal budget cuts, according to a retail group. 
    Cargo volume at the nation's ports is expected increase in March, despite port slowdowns as a result of automatic federal budget cuts, according to a retail group.  A monthly Global Port Tracker released Monday by the National Retail Federation...
    4. Feb 8, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Is another strike looming for the ports of L.A. and Long Beach?

    Bargaining units for a clerical workers' union rejected a tentative labor agreement this week that that ended an eight-day strike that shut down the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach late last year.
    Bargaining units for a clerical workers' union rejected a tentative labor agreement this week that that ended an eight-day strike that shut down the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach late last year. The tentative contract, announced Dec. 4, intially...

    Tags: Shipping Service, Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, Strikes, Career and Workplace, International Longshore and Warehouse Union

    5. Feb 2, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. National Retail Federation applauds tentative ports labor pact

    The National Retail Federation is applauding a tentative contract agreement between the union that represents 14 East Coast and Gulf coast seaports and an alliance of shipping lines, terminal operators and port associations.
    The National Retail Federation is applauding a tentative contract agreement between the union that represents 14 East Coast and Gulf coast seaports and an alliance of shipping lines, terminal operators and port associations. The Federal Mediation and...

    Tags: Walmart, International Longshore and Warehouse Union

    6. Dec 5, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Retailers express relief that L.A.-Long Beach port strike is over

    The nation's retailers are among those most relieved that the 8-day-old strike at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach is over.
    The nation's retailers are among those most relieved that the 8-day-old strike at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach is over. Although the movement of goods to the U.S. from Asia for the holiday season had been largely completed weeks ago, the...

    Tags: Barack Obama

    7. Jan 15, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. What fiscal cliff? Shoppers push up retail sales, prices fall

    <em></em>Economic prognosticators spent the end of 2012 fretting about looming spending cuts and toxic tax increases. Consumers, however, spent it shopping.
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    Economic prognosticators spent the end of 2012 fretting about looming spending cuts and toxic tax increases. Consumers, however, spent it shopping. Retail sales across the nation rose 0.5% to $415.7 billion in December as Americans put fiscal cliff...

    Tags: Vehicles, Services and Shopping, Prices, Economic Indicator, Fiscal Cliff

    8. Dec 5, 2012 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  8. Port strike numbers are out to sea

    Big, round numbers always get people's attention. Numbers such as $1 billion, which has been bandied about as the economic loss per day nationally from the eight-day strike that shut down most of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
    Big, round numbers always get people's attention. Numbers such as $1 billion, which has been bandied about as the economic loss per day nationally from the eight-day strike that shut down most of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. That figure...

    Tags: Lobbying, Services and Shopping, Collective Contract, Media Industry, Strikes

    9. Nov 26, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. White House issues new warning on 'fiscal cliff'

    WASHINGTON -- On the heels of record sales over the Black Friday weekend, the White House warned that automatic federal tax increases set for next year could hurt the rest of the holiday shopping season and would likely crimp consumer spending by about $200 billion in 2013.
    WASHINGTON -- On the heels of record sales over the Black Friday weekend, the White House warned that automatic federal tax increases set for next year could hurt the rest of the holiday shopping season and would likely crimp consumer spending by about...

    Tags: Services and Shopping, Black Friday (shopping), Fiscal Cliff, Consumers, Labor Markets

    10. Dec 28, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Port strike in eastern U.S. averted with 30-day contract extension

    The labor contract covering more than 15,000 dockworkers at 14 Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast ports has been extended for 30 more days, heading off a strike that could have begun as early as Sunday.
    The labor contract covering more than 15,000 dockworkers at 14 Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast ports has been extended for 30 more days, heading off a strike that could have begun as early as Sunday. George H. Cohen, director of the Federal Mediation...

    Tags: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Labor Legislation, Port of Los Angeles, International Longshoremen's Association, Shipping Service

    11. Nov 23, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Weekend Talk Shows for Nov. 24-25: Carl Levin; John McCain; Richard Gere

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    Click here to download TV listings for the week Nov. 25 - Dec. 1 in PDF format This week's TV Movies   -------------------- SATURDAY The Chris Matthews Show What makes great presidents; President Obama’s study of his greatest predecessors. (N)...

    Tags: Richard Gere, Carly Fiorina, Barney Frank, Carl Levin, Fiscal Cliff

    12. Nov 22, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  12. Black Friday shopping hunt for deals starts earlier this year

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    The annual rush to shop this holiday season got underway in earnest Thanksgiving as retailers began early putting out their Black Friday specials and crowds showed up to check out the bargains....
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