 The unemployment rate for black workers has been significantly higher than for white workers since government data has been collected. But despite the fact that college graduates fare better in the job market, getting a degree still doesn’t mean black workers catch up with everyone else.
The unemployment rate has been higher for black college graduates than for all graduates for decades, but the gap widened since 2007, according to a new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Res
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Blanton Elementary School kindergarten teacher Amy Collins, left with her class on Monday, August 20, 2012 in Lealman, Florida. (AP Photo/The Tampa Bay Times, Scott Keeler)
Pharrell Williams has reason to be happy. The singer and music producer has had the world’s hottest pop single over the past six months. His “Happy” has been topping the charts everywhere, from the United States to Lebanon and Bulgaria.
If this bouncy ditty keeps selling, Williams might even end up 2014 as happy as Taylor Swift, the most lavishly compensated musical artist in all of 2013.
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 The awful story of Shanesha Taylor is what's wrong with the state of our union: The mother of two from Scottsdale, Arizona got called to a job interview she urgently needed. With no place to leave her two young kids - no neighbors because she's homeless, no co-workers because she's jobless, no paid childcare because she has no money, no free childcare because our government, which at the same time is trying to restrict birth control so women have to have more kids they don't have the resources to care for - she
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This weeks LOL Cats is brought to you by the cold & Canada...
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 Excerpted from "Mindless: Why Smarter Machines Are Making Dumber Humans"
When I first did research on Walmart’s workplace practices in the early 2000s, I came away convinced that Walmart was the most egregiously ruthless corporation in America. However, ten years later, there is a strong challenger for this dubious distinction—Amazon Corporation. Within the corporate world, Amazon now ranks with Apple as among the United States’ most esteemed businesses. Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and CEO, came in second in the Harvard Business Review’s 2012 world rankings of admired CEOs, and Amazon was third in CNN’s 2012 list of the world’s most admired companies. Amazon is now a leading global seller no
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As part of his research for the book, Roose managed to infiltrate a secret meeting of a Wall Street fraternity, known as Kappa Beta Phi. The fraternity’s membership rolls include high powered banking executives, CEO’s, Hedge Fund managers and other Wall Street tycoons. What Roose saw and heard during that event will make your blood boil.
In an except from the book, published online by New York Magazine, Roose describes a scene in which more than 200 of world’s wealthiest financial executives, performed songs and skits mocking the 99 percent and the financial crisis
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