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The Holy Trinity Of Startup Success: Purpose, Culture, Reward
By Trevor Blake Last time I looked, there were 19,200 book titles available for purchase at Amazon under the category “Organizational Behavior.” I checked out a few of the top sellers and found a familiar pattern. Not one is written by an author … Continue reading
Will Ware be stuck with the bill?
By David Sirota Louisville sophomore Kevin Ware’s injury today in the Midwest Regional finals of the NCAA tournament will likely be remembered alongside Joe Theismann’s career-ender as one of the most tragically gruesome in sports history. But that’s not the … Continue reading
16 Giant Corporations That Have Basically Stopped Paying Taxes — While Also Cutting Jobs!
March 18, 2013 |By Paul Bucheit Outside the stadium our nation’s kids and seniors and low-income mothers may be dealing with food and housing cuts, but on the corporate playing floor new low-tax records are being set again this year. … Continue reading
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Tagged business, economy, money, poverty, tax, Tax cut, United States
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On the Politics of ‘Scandal’
By Ken Tucker I freely admit I was late to the wackadoodle political party that is ABC’s Scandal, now hurtling toward a second-season finale on a TV screen near you. After all, it was created by Shonda Rhimes, who managed … Continue reading
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Tagged entertainment, Kerry Washington, politics, Scandal, Shonda Rhimes, television, Tony Goldwyn
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Reince Priebus: Republican Party ‘Believes Marriage Is Between One Man And One Woman’
By Will Wrigley Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, said the party’s platform on gay marriage has not changed despite the massive effort spearheaded by the RNC to make the party more inclusive. “I know our party believes marriage … Continue reading
CIAs Gus Hunt On Big Data: We Try To Collect Everything And Hang Onto It Forever
By Matt Sledge NEW YORK — The CIAs chief technology officer outlined the agencys endless appetite for data in a far-ranging speech on Wednesday. Speaking before a crowd of tech geeks at GigaOMs Structure:Data conference in New York City, CTO … Continue reading
Senator: Should hourly minimum wage be $22?
By Kim Peterson What if U.S. workers were paid more as the nation’s productivity increased? If we had adopted that policy decades ago, the minimum wage would now be about $22 an hour, said Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) last week. … Continue reading
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Tagged business, economy, Elizabeth Warren, income, Massachusetts, minimum wage, money, politics, Senate, twitter, wages
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Despite progress, diversity hiring in sports media still poor
by Richard E. Lapchick Editor’s note: This story is revised from the print edition. Of all the racial and gender report cards produced by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida, the most … Continue reading
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Tagged african american, APSE, employment, ESPN, latino, media, NFL, race, Richard Lapchick, sports, United States
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Dispatch From Brooklyn: Fraying Patience With NYPD’s Protection
By Jamilah King, Monday, March 18 2013 It’s a Thursday night and East Flatbush is fuming. New York City police officers are stationed at every corner for miles along Church Ave., which is this Brooklyn neighborhood’s main thoroughfare. Traffic clogs … Continue reading
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Prevent Another Steubenville: What All Mothers Must Do for Their Sons
by Kim Simon When Max was just a few months old, I sat cross-legged on the floor with him in a circle of other mothers. The facilitator for our “Mommy and Me” playgroup would throw a question out … Continue reading →