Why Being Unproductive Saves a Career
From the New York Times: Debra Suh had been a leader in domestic violence prevention for 16 years when she hit a breaking point about a decade ago. Balancing her…
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Salaried or Hourly? The Gaps in Family Friendly Policies Begin to Close
From the New York Times: More large companies like Starbucks and Walmart are starting to see the value in paid leave and other benefits for parents, including hourly workers, though…
LA Times journalists vote to unionize
From today’s LA Times: Journalists at the Los Angeles Times have overwhelmingly elected to form a union, a first for the 136-year-old news organization that for much of its history…
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Individual Mandate Now Gone, G.O.P. Targets the One for Employers
From the New York Times: Having wiped out the requirement for people to have health insurance, Republicans in Congress are taking aim at a new target: the mandate in the…
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MLK Day 2018, A Time to Reflect on Socio-Economic Injustice In All Forms
In honor of MLK Day, we post a short educational video here with excerpts from Martin Luther King, Jr. and James Baldwin that draw the connection between racial injustice and…
KY Gets OK To Require Work From Medicaid Recipients, Most Already Do
From National Public Radio: Poor residents in Kentucky will have to work or do volunteer work if they want to keep their Medicaid benefits after the Trump administration on Friday…
Strategies to Manage Your Career: From Networking to Balancing Work and Life
From the New York Times Business Section: There is no shortage of books claiming to reveal the secret truth behind successful careers. Then there are all the podcasts, TED talks,…
LA Times Newsroom Votes on Whether to Unionize, Tronc tries to suppress it
Here is an object lesson in why workers at the LA Times newsroom voted to unionize. Below is the “story” that appears in the LA Times about this historically significant…
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Robots Are Coming, and Sweden Is Fine
From New York Times: From inside the control room carved into the rock more than half a mile underground, Mika Persson can see the robots on the march, supposedly coming…
Working During Holidays? Increasingly, More and More of Us Are Working Too
From National Public Radio: It can be a drag but working on the holidays is inevitable for some jobs. A nurse, a cook and a ballet wardrobe supervisor share what…