Nevada’s Job Program is causing talent to get hired faster, reducing the time on unemployment benefits. It could transform the nationwide employment program. Instead of searching out idlers not looking for work to take away benefits, Nevada sends them to a career center focusing on matching their experience with an opportunity or funding recertification or training. Can the talent shortage disrupt our industry’s impediments to hiring, The 3...

Wall Street M&A and mega-deals are back—billions and billions of dollars’ worth of them. Happy Days are here again! In the fray is Mondelez, with its $6.7-billion revenue line of products like Oreos, Ritz Crackers and other Baby Boomer favorites. The transaction actually marked my favorite deal so far this year. The company is acquiring Tate’s Bake Shop, which makes chocolate chip cookies out of Southampton, NY. And the price tag of $500...