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Today is a special day, ladies and gentlemen! It’s that magical day that marks how far into a year a woman has to work to make what her male counterparts …

JPMorgan announced this week it will give $1 million to schools to improve higher education courses for United States military veterans.

In a press release, Maureen Casey, the director of military and veterans affairs for JP Morgan, said the money is meant to help veterans make the transition from serving their country in a military capacity to the working world.

A group of leading economists, including seven Nobel laureates, have joined the effort to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.

The Fair Minimum Wage Act – introduced by Rep. George Miller, D-California, and Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa – would increase the minimum wage in a series of steps over three years. The current minimum wage is $7.25.

The nation’s unemployment rate fell to 6.7% in December – but primarily because so many people dropped out of the workforce, according to numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

The 6.7% number is the lowest since October 2008. However, the BLS reported that 347,000 people stopped looking for work. The federal government only counts those who are looking for work but unable to find a job as the “unemployed.”

Consumer spending rose again in November 2013 at the fastest rate since June – the latest in string of good news about the economy.

The U.S. Department of Commerce reported that spending by consumers had jumped by .5% in November after a .4% gain in October. The Commerce Department reported that the gain was driven by consumers buying durable goods such as automobiles, furniture and appliances.

In another sign of the leveling playing field between men and women in the business world, Mary Barra was named this week as the new chief executive of General Motors Company.

She will be the first female CEO at a major, global car company. Barra will replace retiring chief executive Dan Akerson.

According to an article from Bloomberg Businessweek, Barra, 51, started her career on the General Motors factory floor as an intern 30 years ago. In her current job – senior vice president for global product development – Barra manages product development and quality of all GM cars, a position she has held for 22 months.

Starbucks has joined a list of companies that have policies in which they are hiring more veterans. The move comes as an increasing number of veterans are returning to the civilian workforce from duty overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Starbucks, which is based in Seattle, announced that it is willing to hire 10,000 veterans and military spouses between now and 2018.

A new survey finds that 69% of Americans would rather remain jobless than work for a company with a bad reputation.

However, more than half of currently employed employees would go to a company with a bad reputation – if they were offered a substantial increase in pay.

The number of young adults in the Millennial Generation who are attending college has increased in the past five years, according to a recent analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data …

The global unemployment rate is almost three times higher for people without a college degree, according to the latest Education at Glance report from…