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Staying Focused on Best Practices

As massive job cuts have forced many companies to reorganize and reprioritize spending, the diversity budget is taking its share of hits across industries. Nearly half of the 452 respondents to a recent Society for Human Resource Management poll said their discretionary HR spending had decreased in the past year, and 39% said they had cut spending on training unrelated to the core business, including anti-harassment and diversity training. Ten percent of respondents said they had reduced spending on initiatives that targeted diversity recruitment, and 12% predicted that diversity-related recruitment efforts would be cut. “If diversity truly is a key strategic objective of a corporation, then it should be treated like any other key strategic initiative of the corporation,” says Joe Watson, CEO of StrategicHire, an executive search firm in Reston, Virginia, and author of Without Excuses: Unleash the Power of Diversity to Build Your Business (St. Martin’s Press; $24.95). “That is a test in many ways to show whether a company’s rhetoric matches its reality.” We’ve looked at two companies that are working to continue efforts to make diversity a business imperative to grow their bottom lines.

Cutting Back to Get Ahead

Daron Pressley enjoyed a six-figure salary and an extravagant lifestyle. That’s not to say money management wasn’t important to him.

What The Debt Ceiling Debate Means To Your Financial Future

If President Obama and congressional leaders don't reach an agreement to increase the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling by Aug. 2 then the United States will wind up becoming a deadbeat nation unable to meet its obligations for the first time in history.

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