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…
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In win for #VotingRights, Federal Court Rules NC Electoral Map Unconstitutional
From the New York Times: A panel of federal judges struck down North Carolina’s congressional map on Tuesday, condemning it as unconstitutional because Republicans had drawn the map seeking a…
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…
Icelandic Companies Required By Law to Show They Pay Men, Women Fairly
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…
Why We Should Disagree More at Work
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…
Why the U.S. Spends So Much More Than Other Nations on Health Care
From today’s New York Times: The United States spends almost twice as much on health care, as a percentage of its economy, as other advanced industrialized countries — totaling $3.3…
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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…
Automation Could Displace 800 Million Workers Worldwide By 2030, Study Says
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,…