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Blog Post Archive
John Feather, PhD: The Big Question That Comes With Getting Older
Who will care for you when you get old? If that's a scary or uncomfortable question, you are in good company. Most people don't want to think about their long-term care needs and when they do, they tend to have major misperceptions of what it costs and what the government will pay for.
Raymond J. Learsy: Energy Exports Are Good! But!
Cheerleading the argumentation for exporting our newly developing bounty of natural gas, Mr. Joe Nocera regales us in his recent New York Times Op-ed "Energy...
Leah Eichler: How Women Hold Themselves Back in Business
While women are equipped with the necessary skills to perform well as leaders, they are not exercising the ability to self-promote. The issue lies, in part, with a woman's confidence or lack thereof. Women tend to "self-select out."
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Ph.D.: The Beckham Effect
Even his biggest fans would admit that the principal reason underlying David Beckham's career success is his exceptional ability to self-brand, to stand out from the crowd and permanently capture people's attention. So, what is the recipe for the Beckham Effect? There are three key ingredients.
Susan Buchanan: Jackson Avenue Heats Up Near The Port Of New Orleans
(This article is published in "The Louisiana Weekly" in the May 20, 2013 edition.) New Orleans resident Barbara Risin has lived in the first block...
Shanna B. Van Ness: Goal Set: Strive for Career Security vs. Job Security
Understanding the difference between advancing your career versus maintaining a job is essential for professional sustainability in any organization.
Rayanne Thorn: Jobseekers: Understanding the Candidate Experience
There has been a significant amount talk about the candidate experience for the last several years among those responsible for hiring or those who are part of the hiring process. It is an ongoing discussion that never seems to yield a very good answer but always stirs up a bit of a response and then fades quickly to black.
Dr. Peggy Drexler: The Breadwinner Complex: Are Women Apologizing For Earning More Than Their Husbands?
While men seem to welcome the existence of dual income households, and marriages marked by (mostly) shared responsibilities, there's a hitch: The guys still want to be the primary breadwinner. That is, she can bring home the bacon, so long as it's not all of it.
Mary Buffett: Reflections of a Modern Thailand
There is an urgency to make things happen in Thailand -- a sense that some of the past political disruptions may be a thing of the past. They have moved far beyond the "domino that refused to fall" during the Cold War.
David Macaray: Boycotts Rarely Work the Way We Hope
The question: How do we insure that Bangladesh textile factories are safe? The answer: You get yourself an incorruptible, on-site champion of industrial safety.
Mary Manning Cleveland: Grover Norquist is Right to Oppose Internet Sales Taxes
As most of us know, sales taxes are "regressive." That is, when sales taxes are "passed on," they fall harder on poorer customers than on richer ones.
Ian Thompson: Momentum Continues to Build for Narrowing ENDA's Religious Exemption
ENDA's religious exemption, which would extend far beyond churches, synagogues and mosques, effectively gives a stamp of legitimacy to anti-LGBT discrimination that our civil rights laws have never given to discrimination based on an individual's race, sex, national origin, age or disability.
Mark Steber: Is Your Tax Refund Less Than Expected?
Unfortunately, there are many reasons this could happen, and even worse, it happens to many taxpayers each year, causing surprise, confusion and frustration.
Bruce Kushnick: ALEC & Your Communications: Part 1: How AT&T, ALEC and the Other Communications Companies Created Model State Legislation to Harm You
The incumbent phone companies were supposed to compete with each other for wireline/broadband services as each merger to make these companies larger was based on commitments to compete out of region. Now it's all one, big, happy fam...
BJ Gallagher: Yoga Wisdom at Work: Finding Sanity Off the Mat and on the Job
Here in Los Angeles where I live, many folks have adopted yoga clothes as their daily attire for running errands, walking the dog, shopping, meeting friends for coffee or lunch, and more. But beyond the fashion trend, what does it mean to live a yoga lifestyle?
Carol Hartsell: How To Write A Thank You Letter
You hold in your hands a letter. Not an email, not a Facebook message, not a DM. An actual, physical missive. It is an epistle, of the ilk our fathers and their fathers once wrote. In short, this is a real "brick and mortar" affair you are looking at.
Edwin D. Hill: Stand With Low-Wage Workers
We have everything to gain by supporting men and women who are putting a human face on the statistics about growing inequality in America. We all lose because the polarization of wealth threatens our economy and our democracy.
Rep. Gwen Moore: GOP 'Cost-Benefit' Bill Benefits Wall Street and Costs Americans
Republicans again have it all wrong as they bring to the House floor the SEC Regulatory Accountability Act, or the so-called SEC "cost-benefit" bill. The bill seeks to not only undo Dodd-Frank, but all financial market regulation past, present, and future.
Jonathan Valania: The Corporations Have Won: Comcast, SCOTUS and the End of Class Actions
A study recently found that the Roberts Court is the most business-friendly of any court in at least the last 65 years. More alarmingly, the top two justices most likely to vote in favor of big business -- out of all justices since 1946 -- are Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.
Anuraag Girdhar: Your Severance Package: One House
This is economic jargon which indicates that a rise in homeownership causes a more than proportional rise in unemployment -- a truly startling finding.