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A new study has found that Baby Boomers are happier in their jobs – but also more stressed out.

The study, from PayScale, a company that compiles data on compensation and workplace issues, found almost 78% of Baby Boomers report having high job satisfaction. That is slightly better than Generation X (72%) and Generation Y (66.4%).

However, the study also found that almost 68% of Baby Boomers reported high job stress. That was more than Generation X (65.5%) and Generation Y (about 60%).

About 75% of female entrepreneurs are upbeat about their businesses, and 79% said their business was not impacted by the government shutdown.

A new Cox business survey showed women business leaders are concerned about the national debt ceiling not being raise. About 56% said in the survey that another recession is likely unless Congress finds a compromise and agrees to raise the debt ceiling.

A new poll finds that many workers suffer from the “Sunday night blues” – that feeling of dread about returning to the workplace on Monday morning.

The Monster.com poll found that only 22% of workers did not experience feelings of anxiety and dread as their weekend ends and they prepare to return to work on Monday morning. Almost half of the people surveyed – 47% – characterized their Sunday nights as “really bad.”

Google is turning its might toward solving a mystery that has confounded mankind for millennia – and it’s enlisting the chairman of Apple to help unlock the genetic puzzle. The …

Men are trailing behind women in regaining jobs lost in the Great Recession, partly because men dominate industries that have not added back the jobs cut during the economic downturn.

Women, on the other hand, have regained all the jobs lost during the Great Recession. They’ve actually surpassed those pre-Recession employment figures – in the August federal jobs report, 68 million said they were employed, more than the 67.9 million who reported having jobs in December 2007.

By MARY PATRICK New studies by a division within the federal Department of Education could be the first in a wave of information that changes how educators approach teaching students. …

The number of young adults in the Millennial Generation who are attending college has increased in the past five years, according to a recent analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data …

The number of middle-aged job seekers in the United States who have found full-time employment has gone up, with more than 48% of those between the ages of 50 and …

An eye-opening 83 percent of alumni with a masters in finance degree claimed that they feel secure or very secure in their positions, according to a…

A new PWC report has joined other studies in highlighting the growth and benefits of mHealth, the practice of moving health technology onto mobile…