There will be no avoiding the inflation conversation during the next few months. Prices are going up all around us — lumber (wait, they’re down suddenly), cars, my favorite chicken with mixed vegetables entree from Asia Sushi down the block. As I’ve written before, folks old enough to remember the [Keep reading]
Recent college graduates get a lot of advice from a lot of directions. Mom, Dad, school friends, crazy Uncle Harry, the Internet, Instagram. Get a job, take a European vacation, don’t buy a car, move somewhere new, buy a professional wardrobe, go to grad school, follow your dreams, take that [Keep reading]
The latest sign that America is a youth-obsessed culture? Men as young as their 30s have taken to “getting work done” so they don’t “age out of” their workplaces and careers. I wrote about this for CNBC.com recently. Ageism is one of the factors contributing to Americans’ general anxiety about [Keep reading]
Here’s an excerpt from a story I did for CNBC.com that published this weekend. Click above to read the entire piece. Older Americans struggling to overcome age discrimination while looking for work face a new enemy: their computers. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan recently opened a probe into allegations that [Keep reading]
There’s an epidemic of stuck in America. It shows up in the economic data, of course, but more important, it’s really hitting folks’ lives hard. A new survey by Rasmussen College found that more than half of U.S. adults “say they don’t have significant growth opportunities in their current positions.” [Keep reading]
There’s been a lot of yelling about equal pay in the news lately. It’s a discussion I’d rather not wade deeply into, because boiling national labor data down to a single data point is the place where logic goes to die. Everyone knows there’s a long history of pay discrimination [Keep reading]
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