Department store chains continued to battle to lure customers to the mall, whilce other retailers are thriving - particularly with online saies. Here are eight retailers whose survival may very well hinge on how well they do this holiday season as Black Friday and the upcoming holiday shopping frenzy quickly approaches. (USA TODAY)

Using data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), Newsweek has ranked the 50 U.S. states and D.C. by how expensive they are to live in compared to the national average. They have added the average income and purchasing power. (Newsweek)
 

According to the 2018 Women in the Workplace Report, women's representation in the corporate world has not improved over the past several years. Here are seven eye-popping facts from the survey. (The Muse)

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said this week that based on the results of the Woomen in the Workplace 2018 report, women remain vastly underrepresented at every level of corporate America. It's only worse for women of color. (The Wall Street Journal)

Intel Corp has increased the ratio of women and African-Americans in its workforce after three years of a high-profile effort to improve diversity, the U.S. microchip maker said in a report released this week.  (ChannelNewsAsia)

The United Kingdom's lead negotiator believes that a deal on Brexit negotiations could be reached by Nov. 21. Raab said "a great deal of progress" has beeen made in recent weeks. (Bloomberg)

The Chinese currency - the yuan - is flirting with the 7 mark against the US dollar, a level it hasn't seen since the 2008 global financial crisis. (BBC)

For more than a century, Harvard University has relied more heavily on case students rather than the traditional lecture-centered approach to learning. Those who praise this method say it requires students to master the material and puts the focus on practical examples. But a growing group of critics say women are insufficiently represented and many vital entities, including unions, are downplayed. (Financial Times)

The Institute on Teaching and Mentoring recently celebrated 25 years of promoting access and equity in the teaching profession of higher education. Racial minorities have long been underreprsented in higher education, and there is a growing disproportion to the number of students of color to faculty and administrators. (Diverse Issues of Higher Education)

Vote With Me is a new app that touts itself as having the ability to provide information about the elections in your state's district. But there's a feature on the app that has some calling it too invasive: the app pulls the voter registration and voting record of anyone in your phone contacts. (Business Insider)

Partnerships between companies, community colleges and universities are growing in America as the need to prepare workers for new technologies at all levels for new becomes more critical. (<i>The New York Times</i>)

Immigrants are responsible for founding 55 percent of unicorn startups, startups valued at more than $1 billion, in the U.S., according to research by the National Foundation for American Policy. Immigrants or their children are also responsible for starting 216 companies-43 percent-of the 2017 Fortune 500.
(Inc.)
 

The unemployment rates for Black and Hispanic workers continue to be high in comparison to White workers. In the third quarter. (Diverse Issues in Higher Education)

A new report created by the Center for Financial Services Innovation sayd only 28 percent of Americans can be conidered financially healthy, and only 45 percent of the people surveyed have enough to cover three months of living expenses. (Fast Company)

Nearly five months after General Motors warned that President Donald Trump's tariffs could lead to layoffs, the company is offering buyouts to some 18,000 employees. (Fortune)

In what is now considered the tightest labor market in almost 50 years, retailers are having a tough time finding workers at a time they're needed most: the holiday season. That means retailers are having to offer more incentives to lure workers. (CNN)