News tagged with workforce policy
Dieting for dollars? More US employees trying it
(AP) -- How much money would it take to get you to lose some serious weight? $100? $500?
Jun 01, 2010 |
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Hours worked by physicians have decreased steadily in last decade
After remaining stable for 2 decades, the average hours worked per week by physicians decreased by about 7 percent between 1996 and 2008, according to a study in the February 24 issue of JAMA.
Feb 23, 2010 |
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Hiding true self at work can result in less job satisfaction, greater turnover
Hiding your true social identity -- race and ethnicity, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation or a disability -- at work can result in decreased job satisfaction and increased turnover, according to a new study from Rice ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 31, 2012 |
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A wake-up call for manufacturing
(Phys.org) -- U.S. factories produce about 75 percent of what the country consumes, but the right decisions by both business and political leaders could push that to 95 percent, say University of Michigan researchers.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
May 24, 2012 |
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Social security: Fixing the glaring gap for women
(Phys.org) -- After a lifetime of lower wages and time out of the labor market for caregiving, women typically receive less from Social Security than men, with millions of widows and women of color falling into poverty in ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 14, 2012 |
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Middle class woe
the American middle class has been battered by the loss of well-paying jobs for the 70 percent of the workforce without a college degree and failed by would-be protectors in government and private institutions, said panelists ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
May 01, 2012 |
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Report: Arizona's Latino education gap could lead to state crisis
New data and projections point to a future fiscal and economic crisis for Arizona unless the state’s Latino educational attainment gap is addressed in a concerted and sustained manner, shows a report released by Morrison ...
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May 01, 2012 |
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Historian turns detective to solve film mystery
Dr. Harry Bennett, Associate Professor of History at Plymouth University, has spent years researching the bizarre tale and a book recording his work – titled The Nazi, The Painter and the Forgotten Story ...
Apr 24, 2012 |
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Apple's squeeze hits phone companies, competitors
(AP) -- Apple is set to report another record quarterly profit on Tuesday, continuing the relentless string of results that's made it the world's most valuable company. Those profits don't come out of thin air: A range of ...
Apr 23, 2012 |
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Federal spending on clean tech dives, report says
A report released Wednesday by scholars at the Brookings Institution and the Oakland, Calif.-based Breakthrough Institute warns that federal spending on clean technologies is drying up, with little sign of additional help ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Apr 19, 2012 |
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Educated women do more paid work than in the 1970s
The time diaries of working age men and women in the UK reveal that women in the 2000s who went to college or university spent more time doing paid work and did less housework compared with similarly educated ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 17, 2012 |
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Sales-tax collection likely in Amazon's future
When word emerged that Amazon.com Inc. was hunting for new warehouse sites, leaders in this business-friendly Southern state rolled out a welcome mat of tax breaks to lure the Internet retailer.
Apr 08, 2012 |
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