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$11,759: The average monthly wage of newly hired Wall Street bankers at the bottom of the recession. View the entire post here: Number of the Week: Bankers Keep Getting Richer

Since the late 1970s there have been more women than men attending college, and a new report expects the gap to grow over the next ten years. But it’s possible the recession may alter that dynamic. View the entire post here: Recession May Cut Into Female College Advantage

By JILIAN MINCER Is it time to get in the game? If you have been sitting on the sidelines since the financial crisis and the stock-market crash, maybe you’re feeling a little bolder now. The economy is looking better. The worst of the layoffs seem to have passed. ...Read More

By SARAH E. NEEDLEMAN In January, David Sullivan was let go from an insurance company. Fourteen days later he started working again — for himself. Mr. Sullivan says he launched a consulting company, rather than a job search, because he didn’t expect to find a new employer given ...Read More

How many years worth of jobs has your city lost in the Great Recession? The Brookings Institution has done a tally in this report . According to the report, the only metro area that has actually gained jobs since the outset of the recession is McAllen, Texas, a ...Read More

By ROBIN SIDEL A new federal credit-card law that takes effect Monday could erase billions of dollars a year in fees and interest charges paid by consumers. But card issuers are already deploying new tactics that could prove costly for even the most cautious cardholder. The law made ...Read More

PepsiCo announced a sizable 2010 share buyback when it issued fourth-quarter results Thursday morning, and such programs are becoming increasingly common among large, cash flow positive companies. Along with earnings per share of 90 cents, the company said it expects to buy back $5 billion worth of its ...Read More

Most U.S. stocks traded in the red Thursday after a less-than-encouraging reading on the job market, but a bullish forecast from Cisco Systems — and word that the network equipment maker will hire as many as 3,000 people this year– helped the company buck the broad-based decline.Shares of ...Read More

The impact of the recession on unemployment is deeper than headline figures suggest, a report suggests. The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) say that 1.3 million people were made redundant during the recession. The study says that is double the fall in employment and equivalent to ...Read More

When our then-22-year-old daughter told us in the fall of 2008 that she intended to move out of our house and live in New York City on her own, we told her it would be tough. She didn’t believe us. Mariana proved us wrong. She not only lived ...Read More