Profiling the Winners of the 2016 Renewal Awards
Today, we put up a new project page on The Atlantic, collecting together a series of profiles on the winners…
Business
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters How Earnings Influence a Woman’s Decision to Wed
A new study suggests that as their wages increase relative to men’s, female workers become less likely to marry.
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You Can't Control Tears
This reader makes the most important distinction, I think, in the debate over crying at work: I…
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Is It Okay to Cry at Work? Cont'd
Olga, in a video accompanying her article about shedding tears at work, talks with colleagues around the office and ends…
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters The Art—and Absurdity—of Extreme Career Hopping
It’s not any harder to imagine a Federal Reserve Chair Kim Kardashian now than it was two decades ago to imagine a President Donald Trump.
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Phil McCarten / Reuters Life as an Undercover Union Organizer
For two years, the writer and labor advocate James Walsh got jobs at casinos to help their employees unionize.
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Alexandre Meneghini / Reuters Guerrilla Marketing: How Cubans Work Around a National Ban on Advertising
In Havana, advertisers worry about attracting too much attention.
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Startups Creating Jobs in the United States, Around the World — and Now in Cuba
Let’s get back to some positive news — actually, let’s connect the positive news I’m about to give, to the…
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Marriage Will Not Fix Poverty, Cont'd
Becca wrote a piece last week digesting a new report from the Center for American Progress on the statistical relationship…
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Keith Bedford / Reuters Can Big Data Help Measure Inflation?
A new database tracking online purchases and prices might provide insight beyond traditional government statistics.
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Library of Congress The Role of Highways in American Poverty
They seemed like such a good idea in the 1950s.
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Jason Reed / Reuters A Mystery of Our Time: The People Who Enjoy Commuting
They’re out there.
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Michael Haegele / Corbis Lean In to Crying at Work
Looking down on people who cry at work is sexist. It’s time to bring back the noble art of public weeping.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters The Fed Holds Steady
The U.S. Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged at its March meeting, but hinted that a rate hike is on the horizon.
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Jeff Roberson / AP Racial Segregation Is Making Americans Sick
How housing discrimination causes stress and shortens lifespans
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Mike Segar / Reuters Why Tech Is the Leading Industry on Parental Leave
Etsy is the latest company to offer extremely generous paid leave—a policy many of its peers are using to attract and retain highly-skilled employees.
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Alan Diaz / AP Saving Spanish in Miami
Fifty years ago, hundreds of thousands of Cubans immigrated to the southern tip of Florida. Now, the city has to teach a new generation how to thrive in a bilingual economy.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters The Unfortunate Consequences for Men Who Work Part-Time
When men haven’t worked many full-time jobs, they have “a lower level of commitment.” When women haven’t, it’s just what’s expected.
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Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters Americans Think CEOs Make a Fraction of What They Actually Do
“In many parts of the country, it is incomprehensible that anyone can earn this much money,” said one researcher.
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Justin Renteria The Art of Marketing Marijuana
How to make pot seem as all-American as an ice-cold beer
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Marco Goran Romano CEOs Behaving Badly
What a chief executive’s golf game and handwriting say about his compensation—and his leadership