2010 Data Show Surge in Poor Young Families More than one in three young families with children were living in poverty last year, according to an analysis of census data by the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University.
A marriage of a dream and a scheme Town Clerk Annette Cappy, whose office issues hundreds of marriage licenses a year, began to notice in 2005 there was something decidedly unromantic about some of the couples seeking the licenses.
As an MSNBC Host, Sharpton Is a Hybrid Like No Other At 50 minutes to airtime, the Rev. Al Sharpton, in pinstripes and cufflinks, was sitting in his office at Rockefeller Center, tinkering with Tuesday’s introduction to “PoliticsNation,” his new nightly show on MSNBC.
The Globe and Mail For U.S. workers, the lost decade of opportunity Life was good for Janine Smith. She had a great job and a nice home in the suburbs.
U.S. News & World Report The Real Impact of Babies on Career Success Jamie Ladge knows that people hate hearing that they can’t “have it all.” As a professor at Northeastern University who studies career success, sheâs discovered that one problem with that phrase is that it usually refers to working in a full-time, inflexible environment while trying to juggle the demands of parenthood. But a newer way […]
Trust Law Anti-Corruption Views – Another call for Congress to hold firm on FCPA Almost a year after the U.S. Chamber of Commerce sullied the anti-corruption waters with its misleadingly-titled paper Restoring Balance: Proposed Amendments to the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act (FCPA), two university law professors opposed to any change in the law have countered with a paper of their own. Busting Bribery: Sustaining the Global Momentum of the […]
Fight brews over US anti-bribery law as fines jump The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has put reshaping a U.S. anti-bribery law near the top of its legislative wish list, setting up a battle pitting the powerful business lobby group against supporters of the statute who say it helps fight corporate corruption abroad.
Obama plan could boost state’s recovery President Obama’s jobs plan would provide some $5 billion in payroll tax cuts to Massachusetts workers while providing additional aid to help put thousands of unemployed people back to work, according to an analysis released yesterday by the White House.
Time to raise taxes on the rich According to new data released by the U.S. Census Bureau this week, median household incomes adjusted for inflation declined by 2.3% in 2010 over the previous year. The data also showed that 46.2 million Americans lived in poverty in 2010 — the highest number in the 52 years the Census Bureau has been tracking such […]
Why Happy Employees Equal Happy Investors That whimper you hear is what’s left of the economic recovery. Markets are wobbling, joblessness remains high, consumer spending has slipped, and revised figures show — oops! — the economy didn’t grow from 2007 to 2010, as the government originally reported. Adjusted for inflation, it shrank.
Advocate Senate Addresses Antigay Bullying Epidemic Student anti-LGBT bullying cases âare probably the largest growth area - on the U.S. Justice Departmentâs Civil Rights Division docket, Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez told lawmakers Tuesday.
Nieman Journalism Lab Will BostonGlobe.com give papers a blueprint to avoid Apple’s 30% cut? Getting online readers to pay for news is a challenge, but the new BostonGlobe.com offers hope for newspapers that want to create an app-like experience but control their own distribution.