America, the Indifferent Almost a third of the way into the program, the latest available figures show that the percentage of United States income going to poor countries remains near rock bottom: 0.14 percent. Britain is at 0.34 percent, and France at 0.41 percent. (Norway and Sweden, to no one’s surprise, are already exceeding the ...
business2blog: Companies Cut Benefits to Gays >> Massachusetts companies, some of which pioneered so-called domestic-partner benefits for unmarried, same-sex partners, said they are now withdrawing them for reasons of fairness: If gays and lesbians can now marry, they should no longer receive special treatment in the form of health benefits that were not made available ...
business2blog: Where the Jobs Are > Cnet maps the top IT-job producing cities. Not a lot of surprises: San Jose, Calif.; Washington, D.C.; Long Beach, Calif.; New York; Chicago; Boston; Oakland, Calif.; Seattle; and San Francisco. I don’t think this map would really surprise anyone. It’s interesting to see the concentration of tech jobs around ...
> PARIS, Oct. 21 – To enforce its new law banning > religious symbols from public schools, the Ministry of > National Education has decided to get tough. > > This week it held formal disciplinary hearings and began > expelling students who violated the law. The goal was to > get rid of those ...
> But what if Brin had stayed in Moscow, and Khosla remained in India, and Wang had gone to university in Europe? That’s the provocative question posed by Richard Florida in “America’s Looming Creativity Crisis,” an article in the October issue of the Harvard Business Review. Florida, a professor at Carnegie-Mellon University, maintains that “the ...
America’s Giving – Scroogish?
Dec
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2004
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