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Paid vacation days per year per country
Source: Center for Economic and Policy Research
United States of America
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U.S. workers did not share in the growth of the economy of the last forty years
According to a recent study ((https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA516-1.html)), unlike the growth patterns in the 1950s and 1960s, the majority of full-time workers did not share in the economic growth of the last forty years. Had the income distributions of the three decades
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Management lessons from the covid-19 death spiral
An excellent article from Ed Yong ((https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/pandemic-intuition-nightmare-spiral-winter/616204/, accessed 200911)) begins like this: Army ants will sometimes walk in circles until they die. The workers navigate by smelling the pheromone trails of workers in front of them, while
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We can overcome our empathy deficit
Given our current circumstances after six months of the pandemic, and not being anywhere near a new normal, you would think that we would be sensitive to the realities of the people around us. Well, according to Scientific American, it turns out we're not. (( https://www.scientificamerican.com/
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Good trouble. Necessary trouble.
Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary
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The real future of work. It's not what you think
Despite the increasing need for these workers, home health aides and personal care aides typically earn less than $12 per hour. And they are overwhelmingly women of color, and disproportionately black women: 87 percent of paid adult care workers are women, compared with 46 percent of nondomestic workers, and about
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We witnessed the lynching of a black man
Note: For some reason (probably human error, that is, me) this entry did not post at the determined time, which was weeks ago now. I'm not saying anything new, but I am speaking my mind. I'm sure I will come back to this in later posts.
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Indra Nooyi on how to get more women in the C-suite
Indra Nooyi, former CEO of PepsiCo, in the New York Times: The issue is not women in the C-suite, it’s a leaky pipeline. The pipeline is leaking at the early stages. Because we get enough women coming into the work force in various stages. But by the time
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Of politics and turkey
Frank Bruni in the NYT: Every year around this time, I read about the fraught partnership of politics and turkey. How can a family survive the Thanksgiving meal with a mix of Democrats and Republicans at the table? What if some of the people voted for Trump and others didn’
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Mintzberg: Who Will Fix the US Economy?
Public support should be shifted from protecting large established corporations to encouraging the growth of newer enterprises. And startups should be discouraged from rushing into the embrace of the stock market’s short-sighted analysts and many an established corporation should be encouraged to escape that embrace. At the same
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DC defined
a town full of people steeped in politics but short on substance via The Economist
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I.O.U.S.A. or Don't buy stuff you cannot afford
I.O.U.S.A. is a documentary that explains the national debt. It has been called the Inconvenient Truth of fiscal realities: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_TjBNjc9Bo] The CEPR disagrees with the documentary's numbers. David Walker, the former US Comptroller General, on 60