A significant proportion of Australian workers— about one-fifth—would be prepared to sacrifice between 16% and 33% of their salaries for the right to work from home, which works out at A$12,000 to $24,000 of those workers' ...
Economics & Business
Jan 16, 2024
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Iceland's president said the country is battling "tremendous forces of nature" after molten lava from a volcano in the island's southwest consumed several houses in the evacuated town of Grindavik.
Environment
Jan 15, 2024
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What do children need most? The answer often depends on a person's relationship with the child.
Social Sciences
Jan 13, 2024
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A new book by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign labor historian explores how workers characterize their relationship to their jobs using their own personal mini-narratives, mining that material to ultimately advocate ...
Social Sciences
Jan 9, 2024
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As climate change fuels sea level rise, younger people will migrate inland, leaving aging coastal populations—and a host of consequences—in their wake, a study by Florida State University researchers finds.
Social Sciences
Jan 8, 2024
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A new research study has found that women, and younger workers, are among those most likely to be affected by underemployment, either working below their potential or preference in terms of hours spent in work, the wages ...
Social Sciences
Jan 4, 2024
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Think about your first job. Maybe it was delivering pizza, bagging groceries, bussing tables or doing landscaping work. Did you get enough training to avoid potential injuries? Chances are, you didn't—and your boss or supervisor ...
Social Sciences
Jan 4, 2024
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The idea that we can comfortably manage all the different facets of life—work, family, other responsibilities—is certainly appealing. But in reality, there is no one-size-fits-all solution to work-life balance—especially ...
Social Sciences
Dec 27, 2023
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Once again, France finds itself in the grip of a political crisis. After the pension reform of June, which prompted more than one million people to take to the streets, president Emmanuel Macron's framework immigration bill ...
Economics & Business
Dec 22, 2023
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Canada's current agricultural production model is unsustainable and in desperate need of reform. A range of issues plague the current system, including corporate consolidation, farmland concentration in the hands of non-farmers ...
Agriculture
Dec 19, 2023
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