Va. Beach gets grant to help prevent foreclosures (Virginian-Pilot)
The Virginia Beach Community Development Corp. and two other organizations in Hampton Roads received federal funds Thursday for counseling families on housing matters and foreclosure.
Christmas Eve work shutdown to spell mobbed malls (USA Today)
Holiday procrastinators are preparing to zoom through picked-over stores, grabbing discounted sweaters and can’t-go-wrong gift cards. If they can get a parking spot, that is. But you won’t hear retailers complaining.
The Visit That Never Ends (Slate)
Readers tell Great Recession stories of moving back home.
Setting an Employee Gift Policy (Inc.)
Here, experts advise on what your employees should know about accepting gifts in the workplace.
America’s most inventive states (Fortune)
These 5 states are innovating up a storm, generating the most independent inventor patents per capita.
