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They work everywhere. They run companies, teach algebra, oversee manufacturing plants and take orders at the local fast-food drive-thru. They're the baby…
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Health and retirement benefits once provided a lifetime link between employers and employees. But as responsibility for these assumed entitlements has…
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Even as mortgage rates fell, Kerry Jantzen gave little thought to buying his own home. That was before he learned that his employer, Chicago-based Bank…
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Since its role in the Enron financial scandal was revealed in 2001, the once-mighty Chicago-based Andersen accounting firm has been reduced to a shell of…
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Margaret Crane, a farm manager for most of her working years, comes from hardy stock and never expected to need much medicine. But the 65-year-old east…
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It’s been a difficult year for Nora Watters and her family. The 38-year-old Decatur woman has managed to find work, but her job with the National Opinion…
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Legislative checklistLawmakers and Gov. George Ryan agreed on a $53 billion state spending plan for the 2002 budget year that begins July 1. They put $460…
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More than a decade after Illinois regulators led the nation in efforts to open local phone service to competition, the future of the $3.6 billion market…