Special Reports

Child care: It's everybody's business
Children listen to music at the Cape Cod Children\'s Place in Eastham. Photo by Julia Cumes

Child care: It's everybody's business

There is growing recognition that working parents are leaving the Cape because they can’t find or afford day care. Some businesses, like Seamen’s Bank, are investing to keep their employees.


  • Hot jobs: Health care and finance among the best fields

    With a July 2007 unemployment rate of just 4.1 percent, the Cape has more than held its own in 2007 – more than one full percentage point below the state average.

  • Barnstable County Wages and Salaries

    To view or download a PDF listing a variety of Barnstable County wages and salaries, click here.

  • The New Cape Cod

    Six seismic shifts in the economic landscape that could determine your business success in 2007 – and beyond.

    Note: Cape Business is holding a series of seminars on on how your business can adapt and grow in the New Cape Cod. To learn more, click here.

  • The SCORE on startups: Marie Forland

    Part of our series on three baby boomers who established new businesses – with the indispensable help of retired executives. Marie Forland moved from beauty products in Beverly Hills to spiritual cards on Cape Cod.

  • The SCORE on startups: John Walsh

    Part of our series on three baby boomers who established new businesses – with the indispensable help of retired executives. Falmouth entrepreneur John Walsh is building a global business based on renewable energy.

  • The SCORE on startups: Bill Bohlin

    Part of our series on three baby boomers who established new businesses – with the indispensable help of retired executives. After a long career on the road, Bill Bohlin enters retailing for the first time – advised by a veteran buyer from Macy’s and Bloomingdales.

  • What Cape Codders get paid

    Who does what, for how much? For a listing of Cape Cod jobs and associated salaries, please click here.

  • Orleans to be first ‘Wireless Village’ on Cape Cod

    Forward thinkers will be looking to the east in the coming months to see how the Orleans Chamber of Commerce and the Cape Cod Technology Council develop plans to make the Lower Cape hub the Cape’s first wireless community.

  • Leadership lessons from Cape Cod Five’s CEO

    Cape Business will interview many of Cape Cod’s most prominent business leaders during the coming year for our recurring Inside Leadership feature. We launch this series with Dorothy Savarese, CEO of Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank.

  • Hot jobs - and those that are not

    Hot professions on the Cape in 2005

  • Quick, I need a bookkeeper

    A panel of four experts to analyze what’s hot and what’s not

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