“This is public property.” “(With sarcasm) I know, that’s a really good one… I’m communication faculty and I really get that argument..but you need to get out.” Yesterday, a Missouri professor called for “muscle” to remove a journalist from a public place on campus where protesters had gathered, and the scene [Keep reading]
“They called her a pig.” Every legend has its origin myth, and I was lucky enough to hear Ralph Nader’s myth on Saturday. It might as well be the origin myth for fairness in modern America. The setting was a speech at the opening of a museum in Northern Connecticut [Keep reading]
WASHINGTON — It’s been an amazing couple of days, running around trying to find the Pope. I got closer than I ever imagined I would. I hope you saw my Sophia Cruz story already. There were plenty of other images from the past 24 hours that I think are [Keep reading]
Hate meetings? You might want to share this story with your boss or coworkers. For CNBC.com, I set out to understand the reason for what I’m calling “meeting inflation” in today’s workplace. It’s partly technology’s fault, partly society’s fault…you’ll see what I mean. But get used to it: as I [Keep reading]
One of Heidi’s biggest fears is growing old with credit card debt, but it sure looked like she was headed that way last year. That’s why Heidi took a second job. The 41-year-old, who lives near Pittsburgh, has about $30,000 in credit card debt. Right now Heidi — who asked [Keep reading]
Steve and Jennie Silha ended up in debt the way a lot of young couples do: They had children. Steve, 44, is a realist, and says the problem was pretty simple. “It really came down to the fact that we decided that my wife would be a stay-at-home mom, but [Keep reading]
Their marriage had a less-than-ideal start. She had $20,000 in debt. He was about to lose his home, and the bank wouldn’t negotiate. He also had a student loan, a car loan and some credit card debt. When she moved to Cleveland to be with him, she’d be unemployed. He’d [Keep reading]
Do student loans help students or colleges? A new paper published by the New York Federal Reserve makes a clear, and depressing assertion: Federal student loans and grants are often simply gobbled up by schools through tuition inflation, leaving the students no better off. More dollars chasing the fewer goods [Keep reading]
Making environmentally-friendly consumer choices is hard. Really, really hard. It’s great and even inspiring that people think as hard as they do about the planet, even when the individual choices they make might not be as beneficial as they believe. (Yes, this story will talk about plastic grocery bag taxes, [Keep reading]
Remember when you used to get statements from the Social Security Administration about your earnings credits and the estimated benefit you would receive at retirement? Those went away during a federal budget crisis back in 2011, only to be partially restored last fall. They are now sent every five years, when [Keep reading]
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