CSBJ Daily

Employer costs for employee compensation in private industries in the Western region of the United States were $28.70 per hour during March.
Costs were highest in the Northeast at $30.56 per hour, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, and lowest in the South at $23.90 per hour.
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Being a journalist isn’t always easy, especially when it comes to relationships. To do our jobs we have to get to know people; but, we also have to maintain our integrity.
And since we’re not machines, we also need to have friends and loved-ones in our personal lives. But sometimes the lines get way more blurred […]

Ever wonder how savvy your are about avoiding phishing scams and bogus Web sites? McAfee SiteAdvisor has a simple 10 question test to help you determine your ability to spot a scam.Just for the record, I managed to answer nine of the 10 questions correctly. Must be all that spam that shows up in my […]

It appears that the conventional wisdom about new cars losing a good chunk of their value the minute they’re driven off the dealer’s lot doesn’t hold up to real-world scrutiny, at least according to a story I came across while browsing Foxnews.com.Driving the Lemon Myth off the Lot kinda makes me wonder who started advocating […]

Interesting story from the Atlanta Journal Constitution about how non-smoking ads are backfiring. It appears that rather than decreasing teen smoking, the ads are actually encouraging rebellious behavior — such as smoking.

Interesting Junk Science story today on Foxnews.com about the Low Carbon Economy Act, or as the author, Steven Milloy, calls it “The Trillion Dollar Giveaway and Wealth Redistribution Act.”I’ve never really bought into the whole “global warming” frenzy — especially given how cold things were last winter. My theory, for what it’s worth, is […]

The Church of Rome’s Los Angeles Archdiocese agreed to a $660 million mega-bucks payout over the weekend to settle more than 500 cases of alleged clergy abuse.From a business model perspective, this can’t be good. I’d always thought that organized religion, and the Catholic Church in particular, had done a remarkable job through the years […]