College of Business and Economics
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| Here’s how many Whatcom County jobs offer annual salaries of $100,000 or more | Whatcom County also trails the national average in terms of adding six-figure salaries. Between 2015-2018, the percentage increase of that salary level rose 79.7%; the national average increase for the same period was 84.6%. One factor for Whatcom’s slower increase is that this area has… |
2020-03-09 | |
| Coronavirus is taking a toll on the Puget Sound-area economy, but how bad could it get? | Hart Hodges, an economist at Western Washington University and director of the Center for Economic and Business Research, said he will be watching for a similar dynamic among consumers. “If people do not go out to eat as much, restaurant owners and wait staff [will] see a drop in revenue… |
2020-03-09 | |
| Campus coronavirus update: March 4 | 2020-03-04 | ||
| Whatcom residents describe racism, and how to be an ally | Learning to be an ally is particularly important at a time when FBI crime statistics and several recent surveys have shown that hate crimes … |
2020-02-18 | |
| Whatcom bankruptcies continue to drop, but are residents still financially stressed? | If household debt is rising in Whatcom County, that is something to monitor, said Hart Hodges, director at Western Washington University’s Center for Economic and Business Research. More debt can work if income is going up so that it can be serviced appropriately, and that can be a sign of… |
2020-02-14 | |
| Western Named a 2019-20 Top Producer for Prestigious Fulbright Scholarships | 2020-02-10 | ||
| Western Students to Provide Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Through April 15 | 2020-02-06 | ||
| How-To Tuesday: Using MABEL | 2020-02-04 | ||
| WWU Again Receives Classification as a Carnegie Community Engaged University | 2020-02-03 | ||
| Is private insurance really at odds with universal health care? | “[T]here is no private insurance coverage or out-of-pocket payment for basic health care services in Canada, which distinguishes Canada’s health care system from those of other high-income countries,” said Globerman, who is a professor emeritus at Western Washington University and a senior… |
2020-01-29 |