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Ten Troubling Labor Day Stats 2015
5.1. The official unemployment rate is 5.1 percent, or 8 million people, according to the US Department of Labor. However, this widely reported "official" number overlooks the millions of people...
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Open Letter to Senator Rand Paul
Note to editors: This post is coauthored with authorized HuffPo blogger Kermit Schoenholtz. We read with interest your August 21 Bloomberg View that calls for "a thoughtful congressional discussion of...
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This Labor Day, Stand With Working Women
This post was originally published by Waging Nonviolence. I do not have a job. I haven't had one in years. But, as mom of three little ones, I feel like I am working harder than I ever have before....
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Labor Day 2015: Stand Together and Fight Back
Labor Day is a time for honoring the working people of this country. It is a time to celebrate the accomplishments of the activists and organizers who fought for the 40-hour work week, occupational...
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Corporate Image: The Critical Foundation of Your Brand
Whether you are an organization or an individual, the sooner you realize that you have a corporate image that has to be properly developed and managed, the better off you will be. It is one of two...
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Profit Sharing: Labor's New Opportunity
This Labor Day, American workers want two things: more pay and some concrete evidence that their incomes could rise. According to recent Labor Department data, civilian labor costs rose this past...
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Introducing the Kosher HECM Reverse Mortgage
The kosher stamp on a food means that it has been certified as fit for human consumption. We have long needed a comparable certification process applicable to financial instruments sold to consumers,...
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Trailblazing Women: Angela Lee, Assistant Dean, Columbia Business...
This interview is part of a series on Trailblazing Women role models (Entrepreneurs and Leaders) from around the world and first appeared on Global Invest Her. You have to see what you can be."Does...
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Back to Cash, Back to Basics - Buying Stocks for a Discount
We took the money and ran - now what? As you can see, our Long-Term Portfolio is now swimming with cash as we cashed in our winners and kept the losers. Our losing positions include 24 short put sales...
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On Labor Day: Corporations Deploy Anti-Worker Weapon
Instead of picnicking, Steelworkers in six states will spend this Labor Day picketing the gates of a dozen Allegheny Technologies Inc. (ATI) specialty mills.These 2,200 Steelworkers are not on strike....
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Fall Is the Real Start of the New Year!
Summer flew by again, and the school year has started. Remember when "back to school" signaled the real start of a new year? Back when you moved into a new grade, got a new teacher, a new fall wardrobe...
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8 Ways Leaders Become Better
Leadership still is viewed as central to an organization's success because it is what motivates and inspires the rest of the team to be accountable and productive. For example, in the Deloitte...
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Why Board Leadership Fails
The headlines scream about leadership failure after failure at the world's leading companies, but not a peep is heard ahead of the disastrous events. As big business suffers blows to its already...
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How Long Does It Take to Get a Job?
What can help you find your answer? You try optimism. Whispering under your breath, even in public, "I will get the job. I will get the job. And I will have it by next Thursday." Not working? You try...
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Hurricane Evacuations Will Remain Tough for Many Black New Orleanians
This blog is based on an article in "The Louisiana Weekly" in the Sept. 7, 2015 edition. In the fall of 2005, 100,000 mostly Black residents of New Orleans and surrounding areas found themselves housed...
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Labor Unions: The Folks Who Gave You the Weekend
The celebration of Labor Day is a good time to remember the role that labor unions have played in raising living standards and improving the quality of life for working people in the United States....
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What the CEO of the "New" Google Needs to do Next
This article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. The Google/Alphabet metamorphosis has catapulted Sundar Pichai into one of the highest profile leadership jobs in Silicon Valley. As the new...
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Turnaround Tuesday - Terrible Chinese Data Trumped by Barron's Cover
Stocks could rally 10% by the end of the year! That's the proclamation on the cover of Barron's (owned by Murdoch) this week as they excitedly proclaim that DESPITE market turbulence, Wall Street's...
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Small Business Big Dreams
The current business environment, as canny SME founders would know, is increasingly uncertain and volatile. Complex, twenty-four/seven, a digital hive of data, numbers, and information, it's a case of...
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Have You Figured Out How Much Money You Need For Retirement Yet?
Have you figured out how much money you need for retirement yet? If you answered "Yes", then you're preparing for your post-working years. But even if you answered "No", there's no need to sound the...
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