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MLK Day 2018, A Time to Reflect on Socio-Economic Injustice In All Forms

January 15, 2018 Editor

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…

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KY Gets OK To Require Work From Medicaid Recipients, Most Already Do

January 13, 2018 Editor

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…

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Strategies to Manage Your Career: From Networking to Balancing Work and Life

January 9, 2018 Editor

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,…

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LA Times Newsroom Votes on Whether to Unionize, Tronc tries to suppress it

January 5, 2018 Editor

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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Icelandic Companies Required By Law to Show They Pay Men, Women Fairly

January 4, 2018 Editor

From today’s National Public Radio: Starting this week, companies in Iceland are required to demonstrate that they pay male and female employees fairly — without gender discrimination. Failing to do…

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Why We Should Disagree More at Work

January 3, 2018 Editor

From Harvard Business Review: When I worked as a management consultant, I had a client that I thought of as difficult. Let’s call her Marguerite. She and I didn’t see…

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Robots Are Coming, and Sweden Is Fine

December 28, 2017 Editor

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…

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Working During Holidays? Increasingly, More and More of Us Are Working Too

December 26, 2017 Editor

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…

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Automation Could Displace 800 Million Workers Worldwide By 2030, Study Says

December 22, 2017 Editor

From today’s National Public Radio: A coming wave of job automation could force between 400 million and 800 million people worldwide out of a job in the next 13 years,…

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In Cutting taxes, the Economic Odds and Historical Experience Are Against Trump

December 22, 2017 Editor

From today’s New York Times: When President Trump adds his distinctive signature to the tax bill, he will also be making a huge bet that the Republican strategy of deep…