Money and Computing
A Pew Survey Asks Will Google Make Us More Stupid or More Intelligent?
"The kind of deep reading that a sequence of printed pages promotes is valuable not just for the knowledge we acquire from the author's words but for the intellectual vibrations those words set off within our own minds. In the quiet spaces opened up by the sustained, undistracted reading of a book, or by any other act of contemplation, for that matter, we make our own associations, draw our own inferences and analogies, foster our own ideas." more »
CBS's New Reality Show, Undercover Boss, and An Original, Jack Coleman
"My job duties require I wear the designated Hooters Girl uniform.My job duties require that I interact with and entertain the customers. The Hooters concept is based on female sex appeal and the work environment is one in which joking and entertaining conversations are commonplace.I do not find my job duties, uniform requirements, or work environment to be offensive, intimidating, hostile, or unwelcome." more »
The Three Faces of Work-Family Conflict
"If the United States continues on its present course, it will face a united Europe that has made great strides toward providing family-support laws and institutions — and less developed countries where work-family conflict for professional-managerial and often even middle-income families is muted by the availability of extremely cheap domestic labor. To ensure the United States provides quality care for the next generation of workers, while at the same time utilizing effectively the human capital of its mothers, fathers, and all caregivers, we need to get serious about work-family public policy." more »
The Pew Research Center's New Economics of Marriage: The Rise of Wives
Among married adults at each education level, men had larger household income increases than did women. Those who gained most of all were married male college graduates, whose household incomes rose 56%, compared with 44% for married female college graduates. more »