D.C. hospital fires 11 nurses, 5 staffers for snowstorm absences

The District's largest private hospital has fired 11 nurses and five support staff members who failed to make it to work during the back-to-back snowstorms that paralyzed the region earlier this month.

With Google Buzz, your closest circle of friends is wide open

Google Buzz is the loudest party I've ever been forced to attend. It's not because there are too many people invited but because of all the chatter. I'm following only 40 others. And even if I wanted to follow a few hundred more, my network's too small. But these 40 contacts all have their own fr...

Happy hour just isn't when the boss tags along

I work on a small team where most of us are in our twenties. We work under a lot of pressure and have become pretty close. We go out together after work at least once a week and sometimes spend time together on the weekends. I think of most of my co-workers as real friends, not just work friends....

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The Color of Money: Michelle Singletary on women with a wealthy attitude

A PURSE OF YOUR OWN An Easy Guide to Financial Security By Deborah Owens with Brenda Lane Richardson. Fireside. $15 Except for the occasional special coin or the Martha Washington $1 silver certificate, I always wondered why the face of a woman isn't part of U.S. currency. Then I saw this quote f...

Toil and trouble

An 11.2% drop from December in new housing, plunging to lowest level in nearly 50 years.

GPS capability gives Foursquare social-networking service an edge

So this guy walks into a bar. He looks around, recognizes the bartender -- and whips out a cellphone, launches an app and taps a button labeled "Check-in here." Then he gets a beer. That is a routine occurrence for people using -- make that, playing -- a social-networking service called Foursquare.

10 tips for spending less and saving more

If cheap is chic, then saving is suddenly sexy. America Saves Week, which is just wrapping up, takes on new meaning when the U.S. savings rate, which had dipped into negative territory, headed up to 4.6 percent last year. The savings rate could climb as high as 6.5 percent, according to Allianz...

Ask Kim: Use caution in closing credit cards

Q: I have several cards that I don't use, and I worry that I could get hit with inactivity fees and other new fees if card companies look for ways to make money in reaction to the new credit card law. It seems as though it would be better to close the credit-card accounts rather than have to pay the...

Workers wait on promise of jobs as Obama agenda stalls on Hill

One month after President Obama declared jobs his "number one focus," Congress has been unable to push through a single measure aimed at putting people back to work, as lawmakers haggle over how best to create jobs and how much to spend in the face of soaring budget deficits.

A buyer's market at D.C. area car dealerships

The winds have been blowing, the roads are full of salt, and two fierce congressional hearings this week raised more questions than they answered about automotive safety, auto experts say. Looks like a good time to buy a car.

The Fed should stay out of the bank-supervision business

As the Senate begins to focus on how to fix financial regulation, one of the remaining unresolved issues is what role the Federal Reserve should have in supervising banks.