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Thread By Thread – Gloria Travers & The North Street Band
When love begins to unravel, do you walk away or pick up the thread? “Thread By...
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- Written by: Matthew Mayhew, Associate Professor of Higher Education, New York University
Demand for innovation is at an all-time high. Innovation is now recognized as being key to economic growth strategies in the United States, Canada and countries in the European Union.
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- Written by: Marcus Harrison Green, YES! Magazine
These south side Chicago “explorers” had never seen anything comparable to the legendary Union League Club. The esoteric artwork, luxurious decor, and dapper club members were a far cry from the neighborhood where the group of African American teenagers grew up. And there was no mistaking the reaction on members’ faces: There goes the neighborhood.
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- Written by: Alison Jones-Duke University
America’s children are starting to recover from the worst effects of the Great Recession, although some ill effects remain, a comprehensive study on child well-being reports.
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- Written by: Toby Walsh, Professor of AI, Research Group Leader, Optimisation Research Group, Data61
Intelligent machines are good at some jobs that were once done by humans. Recent alarmist headlines this week claim artificial intelligence (AI) will put half of us out of work.
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- Written by: Jacqueline Kelly-McHale, Associate Professor of Music Education, DePaul University
Classrooms are becoming more diverse. So, why is music education focused on Western music?
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- Written by: Deborah Bach, University of Washington
Health disparities are common in developed countries, including the United States, but at what age those inequities take root and how they vary between countries is less clear.
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- Written by: Yessenia Funes, YES! Magazine
A public health researcher explains why life expectancy in the United States is falling, and it has to do with income inequality rising.
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- Written by: Dean Baker, CEPR
The next Administration should make reducing work time a major focus. In addition to mandated paid sick days and paid family leave — proposals that have received some welcome attention thus far on the presidential campaign trail — policymakers should go much further and enact measures aimed at shortening workweeks and work years.
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- Written by: Patrick Ercolano, Johns Hopkins University
Increasing poor families’ income can significantly improve their children’s psychological well-being, according to new research.
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- Written by: Sarah Avery, Duke University
Women cardiologists often earn less than men—even when taking into account the different types of work they do—a new study suggests. Further, the ranks of women cardiologists remain disproportionally small compared to those in medicine overall.
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- Written by: Sarah van Gelder, YES! Magazine
A "Jubilee" initiative in Cincinnati aims to wipe out the debts of the city's poorest people. Theologian Walter Brueggemann explains the idea's biblical foundations.
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- Written by: Paul Krugman, New York Times
No doubt surprising many of the people watching the Democratic presidential debate, Bernie Sanders cited Denmark as a role model for how to help working people. Hillary Clinton demurred slightly, declaring that “we are not Denmark,” but agreed that Denmark is an inspiring example.
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- Written by: David Morris, On The Commons
The Supreme Court twisted a 1925 law to undermine the interests of citizens, employees and small business. Companies, of course, hire arbitration firms that rule in favor of companies.
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- Written by: Ellen Brown
Pope Francis’ revolutionary encyclical addresses not just climate change but the banking crisis. Interestingly, the solution to that crisis may have been modeled in the Middle Ages by Franciscan monks following the Saint from whom the Pope took his name.
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- Written by: Karen Finney-UC Davis
Economists have tallied up how much it will likely cost to care for all Americans with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) this year: $268 billion. In 10 years that number is expected to climb to $461 billion, but they say it could top out at $1 trillion if ASD prevalence continues to increase.
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- Written by: Heather R. Lee The Journalist Resource
Virtually every American community has Chinese restaurants — and the story of how this came to be is fascinating and highly revealing about the often unintended impact of U.S. immigration rules. This ethnic food industry started to grow rapidly in the early 20th century, at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was pervasive.
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- Written by: Cat Johnson, Shareable
Health insurance for freelancers can be expensive. When employed by a company, health insurance is generally covered, but strike out on your own and you find yourself paying several hundred dollars or more per month for minimal coverage. As freelancers are expected to make up fifty percent of the U.S. workforce by 2020, one can’t help but think there has to be a better way—and there is.
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- Written by: Laurel Thomas Gnagey University Of Michigan
For a new study, researchers measured telomere length of poor and moderate-income whites, African-Americans, and people of Mexican descent in Detroit neighborhoods to determine the impact of living conditions on health.
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- Written by: Dean Baker
The push for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is reaching its final stages as the House of Representatives will soon take the key vote on fast-track trade authority which will almost certainly determine the pact’s outcome
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- Written by: Araz Hachadourian, YES! Magazine
The USDA is putting $31 million behind a program that helps low-income families take home twice the veggies, and local farmers make twice the money.
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- Written by: Ralph Nader
President Barack Obama and his corporate allies are starting their campaign to manipulate and pressure Congress to ram through the “pull-down-on-America” Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade and foreign investment treaty between twelve nations (Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States and Vietnam).
