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Should you factor retirement into your career goals?
By Susan Ricker When you’re searching for a job, the primary focus is usually on finding employment, not preparing for retirement. But should your career goals include what comes after you’re done working? Depending on where you are in your … Continue reading
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Tagged business, career, finance, Financial plan, Retirement, saving
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Why Jobs Go Unfilled Even in Times of High Unemployment
By Amy Sullivan Skills for America’s Future, a policy initiative run out of the Aspen Institute, was created in 2010 as a spin-off of President Obama’s Jobs Council and was originally led by longtime Obama supporter Penny Pritzker. With Pritzker now … Continue reading
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Tagged Aspen Institute, employment, job training, jobs, skill, unemployment, United States
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Fast-food workers uniting to strike on Aug. 29
By Jonathan Berr McDonald’s, Burger King , Wendy’s and their rivals can sell food inexpensively because they pay their workers low wages. That unpleasant economic reality will confront diners in eight cities later this month during a work stoppage organized by a … Continue reading
Sanjana Hattotuwa – Using citizen journalism to bear witness to violence
From 2011, stirring and powerful presentation.
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Tagged cellphones, cellular, citizen jounalism, Egypt, facebook, Groundviews, social media, Sri Lanka, technology, Tunisia, twitter, violence
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Building a New Racial Justice Movement
By Rinku Sen This week, the nation will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom with events in Washington, D.C., and many other cities. A hot summer of race news—Moral Mondays to preserve voting … Continue reading
Memo to police: No, you’re not making us feel safe!
By Brittney Cooper Since a federal judge ruled last week that the NYPD’s use of stop-and-frisk techniques was unconstitutional, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and police commissioner Ray Kelly have staunchly defended this law enforcement tactic, continuing to credit the practice with … Continue reading
A question of civil rights? Federal role shaped by decades of cases before Trayvon Martin
By Associated Press Almost as soon as George Zimmerman was pronounced “not guilty” in a Florida courtroom, the cry went up. The U.S. government must get “justice for Trayvon,” insisted protesters angry about the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager … Continue reading
California to force-feed hunger-striking prisoners
By Al Jazeera and The Associated Press A federal judge has approved a request from California and federal officials to force-feed inmates participating in an ongoing hunger strike now entering its seventh week if necessary. The process, which prison officials … Continue reading
Mass incarceration does injustice to millions of American children
By Michael Leo Owens Reform criminal justice now. That was the core message US Attorney General Eric Holder delivered recently to the American Bar Association and our nation. He declared that “too many Americans go to too many prisons for … Continue reading