01/28/2015 - 09:02
There’s a dreamy-eyed notion about American workers. They are entrepreneurs, builders and thinkers who pull the country ahead with can-do and a powerful collective imagination. But beyond the idealism, a dirty truth lingers: only 31.5 percent are “engaged” in their work.
01/16/2015 - 10:27
It comes as no surprise that male protagonists populate every single film nominated for best picture at the Academy Awards this year. A recent analysis shows that men continue to dominate the film industry.
01/15/2015 - 17:32
Women are tough enough. They’re smart enough. But they miss promotions because they are held to higher standards – expected to do more than their male counterparts do, according to a new Pew Research Center study.
01/09/2015 - 18:24
The year’s end has brought about more hiring, a drop in the unemployment rate and hope that a new project will breathe life into American manufacturing. Good news, overall, with one notable exception: Wages remain flat.
01/07/2015 - 14:00
An average of six Americans die of alcohol poisoning each day – and they are not all members of college fraternities or sororities, according to researchers for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
12/17/2014 - 07:24
Americans don't hear much about
Ebola any more. Even so, the disease is still keeping the Centers for Disease Control, the World Health Organization, nonprofits and charities busy.
12/16/2014 - 08:00
Two years ago on Dec. 14, 2012, a mentally unstable man shot and killed 20 first-graders and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Two others were wounded -- all in a matter of minutes.
12/10/2014 - 14:08
Not that there's anything wrong with Taylor Swift making the short list for Time magazine's person of the year. But what about a certain pint-sized Supreme Court justice with an outsized work ethic?
12/05/2014 - 10:05
As House Speaker John Boehner sees it, things are not looking up, even though the government just released numbers that show employers added more than 300,000 jobs in November and the unemployment rate -- 5.8 percent -- remains at
its lowest point in years.
12/03/2014 - 15:00
If the late Harold Gray had created Little Orphan Annie today, she wouldn't be an orphan at all. At least, no one would call her that. She would be Little Foster Kid Annie.