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Thorny Logistics Of A Federal Shutdown and How It Affects Agency Employees

January 22, 2018 Editor

From National Public Radio: Hundreds of thousands of federal employees will either be sent home or have been told to not show up to work at all on Monday, as…

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LA Times journalists vote to unionize

January 20, 2018 Editor

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

January 18, 2018 Editor

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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Op-Ed: Should we set up New Deal-style work camps for the needy?

January 18, 2018 Editor

From today’s LA Times: They are sending out emergency calls for shoes, underwear, sleeping garments, household equipment, mattresses, springs and bedding,” a Los Angeles Times story reported from Southern California.…

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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…