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Feb.18.2010
The great thing about manuscripts is that, if you are lucky or observant enough, you can often find a mistake or three and correct or acknowledge that you have a mistake before it get's edited. I can say the same of resumes and cover letters, but employers, unfortunatley, aren't as generous in...
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Dec.10.2009
When you lose everything it might seem that loss is all that’s left to identify with. Loss is a situation not a state of mind. Just like you weren’t what you had, you aren’t what you lost. Nor are you what you owe. Indenture isn’t identity. A financial obligation does not oblige you to...
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Sep.14.2009
Where are the bats? The darkness? Why are these two cave-dwelling examples more about urban chic than an honest attempt at starkness?
Daniel Suelo has been described as a “48-year-old hermit from Utah”. Eight years ago he decided to stop using money. For the past three years he has been living in a...
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Sep.01.2009
Long before the economic recession, a commercial sex worker had told me, “Sister, we get food and shelter here, but isn't money important too?" She had been ‘saved’ and was in a remote village but she had got accustomed to the power of money.
The concept of prostitution – an extreme form of...
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Mar.28.2009
Across the United States, companies large and small are cutting payrolls - and one of the first groups getting the ax are employees in supplier diversity positions. Over the last two decades, most large U.S. corporations created departments to nurture relationships with minority and women-owned...
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Feb.22.2009
Although the $787 economic stimulus plan has passed, President Obama made it clear much more remains to be done. For the good of the country, a guest worker program must now become one of the key items on the national agenda.
The U.S. economy is at a tipping point. Very soon, workers idled from...
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Feb.18.2009
Throughout the fall of 2007 and winter of 2008 I've been hearing stories of teachers being laid off in Orange County, Bay Area, Sacramento, Florida, and of small groups of trade unionists fighting to save teachers jobs. I teach at a junior college, and only now this spring have a small number...
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Jan.01.2009
I was going to start this column with “Another year has begun and not a moment too soon” until I realised that I say that almost every year and, come to think of it, so does everyone else too.
It kinda proves that people, for the most part, are optimists and look forward to the future with hope and...
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Dec.10.2008
Few would disagree the economic crisis now gripping most of the world was triggered by Wall Street’s shortsighted greed. In bundling risky sub-prime home mortgages into a class of commercial investment products, the Wall Street smart guys managed to pollute the assets of virtually every major...
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Nov.24.2008
During the campaign, president-elect Obama promised to initiate legislation for comprehensive immigration reform in the first 100 days of his administration. Like most presidents, Mr. Obama will come into office with considerable political capital during the proverbial "honeymoon" period...
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