Coloradans will work two days fewer this year than last to earn enough money to pay their taxes, according to the latest results of an annual analysis of income and tax statistics. Taxpayers nationwide won’t be quite as fortunate and will have to work three more days in 2011 than they did in 2010. Tax […]
A monthly measure of business conditions in Colorado continues to rise even as prospects for job growth improve. The Business Conditions Index rose 2.5 points in March to 59.6 on stronger readings for new orders, production and sales. “Our surveys over the past several months indicate that the region will add another 60,000 jobs by […]
U.S. payrolls continued to grow in March as the unemployment rate edged down to its lowest level in two years. According to the latest Department of Labor estimates, nonfarm payrolls increased 216,000 and the monthly unemployment rate slipped a tenth of a percent to 8.8 percent. That’s the lowest jobless rate since March 2009. Labor […]
Here’s a preview of a breaking story that will appear in the next edition of The Business Times. The full story will be available on April 7 when the print edition hits the news stands, and online later that day. Efforts are under way to hire executive directoras at both the Fruita and Palisade chambers of […]
Scott Fasken, vice president of Colorado Document Security in Palisade, has been elected president-elect of the National Association for Information Destruction (NAID). Fasken was elected during the national convention of NAID, an international trade association for companies providing information destruction services. Fasken will assume the presidency in 2012, becoming the first person from a rural […]