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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: Veronika Dolar, SUNY Old Westbury
Economists typically focus on the three big macroeconomic variables: gross domestic product, unemployment and inflation.
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- Written by: Scott L. Montgomery, University of Washington
Russia’s war against Ukraine will change the landscape of global energy and its geopolitics in profound ways. Pieces of this terrain have already begun shifting.
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- Written by: Alexander Kurov, West Virginia University and Marketa Wolfe, Skidmore College
There’s a growing bipartisan push to prohibit members of Congress from buying or selling stocks. The shift follows news reports that several senators sold stocks shortly after receiving coronavirus briefings in early 2020 and that at least 57 lawmakers have failed to disclose financial transactions since 2012 as required by law.
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- Written by: Rich Barlow, Boston University
New research finds men’s risk tolerance and overconfidence play a role in the gender wage gap.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, Innerself.com
There have been some standout successes for some countries dealing with this Covid pandemic.
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- Written by: Robert Massa, University of Southern California
Sixteen universities – including six in the Ivy League – are accused in a lawsuit of having engaged in price fixing and unfairly limiting financial aid by using a shared methodology to calculate the financial need of applicants.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, Innerself.com
Millions of Americans have no health insurance and even if the do they live in fear that one illness could bankrupt them.
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- Written by: Jade McClain, New York University
Dickens consciously thought of A Christmas Carol as a message book, which he hoped would deliver what he called a 'sledge-hammer' blow on behalf of ameliorating the suffering of the urban poor
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, Innerself.com
The means to achieve quality healthcare for all is there. All that is lacking is the people's will and demand. But how?
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, Innerself.com
The means to achieve quality healthcare for all is there. All that is lacking is the people's will and demand. But how?
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
We are almost all lucky to have someone in our lives to encourage and motivate us and try to show us the way. But ultimately we have to live the choice.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
We are almost all lucky to have someone in our lives to encourage and motivate us and try to show us the way. But ultimately we have to live the choice.
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- Written by: Sara Savat-WUSTL
An impossible standard is at the root of gender inequalities in the workplace, according to two new studies on inflexibility and discrimination against mothers.
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- Written by: Jackie Cassell, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
The precarious economies of many traditional seaside towns have declined still further since the 1970s when an explosion of cheap holiday flights and package tours to Spain and...
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- Written by: Terri Friedline, University of Michigan and Ameya Pawar, University of Chicago
About a quarter of census tracts with a post office don’t have a community bank or credit union branch, suggesting postal banking could provide a financial lifeline to the millions of Americans without a bank account, according to our new research
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- Written by: Adriana Cadena
I grew up in a poor, undocumented family. I was lucky — we got our legal residency, I got an education, and now I have a good job. But no one should have to count on luck.
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- Written by: Chelsea Davis, Iowa State University
Vulnerable populations in small towns face significantly more public health risks than statewide averages, finds new research in Iowa.
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- Written by: Greg Larson, Yale University
With stronger complementarities in home production among spouses, highly educated people increasingly marry other highly educated people, while less-educated people increasingly marry other less-educated people
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- Written by: Janet Greenlees, Associate Professor of Health History, Glasgow Caledonian University
In May 2021, virologist Angela Rasmussen reflected how “if the last 18 months have demonstrated anything, it’s that we would do well to remember the lessons of past pandemics as we try to prevent future ones”. This includes ensuring we come out stronger.
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- Written by: Robert Reich
Maybe it’s wishful thinking to declare the pandemic over in the US, and presumptuous to conclude what lessons we’ve learned. So consider this a first draft.
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- Written by: Robert Danisch, Professor, Department of Communication Arts, University of Waterloo
The modern research university was designed to produce new knowledge and to pass that knowledge on to students. North American universities over the last 100 years have been exceptionally good at that task.
