Neighbors Abandon Their House?
No problem! Hire Green Genie to spray paint their brown lawn green. It lasts for up to three months and is “great for curb appeal.”
Twenty Somethings Do the Darndest Things
Hire the duo behind
iwearyourshirt.com, to wear your company's t-shirt for one day. The two will make videos while wearing the shirts, and share the clips through YouTube and other outlets. Last year the founder made $87,000.
Haiku Resignation
Former CEO of Sun Microsystems, Jonathan Schwartz, became the first Fortune 200 leader to
tweet his resignation—with a haiku poem: “ ... Financial crisis/Stalled too many customers/CEO no more.”
Mind Your Own Business
Junior Achievement and the U.S. Small Business Administration have put together a website designed to guide enterprising teens through the steps of starting their own business.
Source: mindyourownbiz.org
Teen Angst
The unemployment rate for 16–19 year olds is 26 percent, the highest for this age group since 1948, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 2007, unemployment was 15 percent.
Source: U.S. News & World Report
The Recession’s Over? Says Who?
The National Bureau of Economic Research is widely recognized as the arbiter of starting and ending dates of U.S. recessions.
Source: Brookings Institute