Archive for March 14th, 2008

Some of you think that I and other financial reporters have been full of too much doom and gloom. If we just, like Anna in "The King and I," just whistled a happy tune, there would be no recession.

Details of Washington, D.C's. new law requiring all city businesses to provide paid sick leave to their employees were finally released this week, clarifying the last-minute amendments to the legislation that will exempt recent hires and certain classes of workers, as well as allowing hardship exceptions for employers.

More Americans than ever before are being audited, as the Internal Revenue Service is working hard to collect every single greenback it can. The total number of individual returns audited last year increased 7% from 2006, shooting to 1.38 million from 1.29 million.