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  • Commentary: Gen Z, don't make yourself hard to employ and easy to fire

    01/29/2023 3:49:19 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 57 replies
    Channel News Asia ^ | 27 Jan 2023 | Allison Schrager
    For any young worker who needs to hear this, your power in the labour market won’t last and quietly quitting could be setting you up to get loudly fired, says for Bloomberg Opinion.NEW YORK: Every generation faces a sceptical reception in the labour force. Baby boomers were called self-centred, Gen X was lazy and millennials were considered entitled. For Gen Z, it’s the same - but different. When I was at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week, there was the normal buzz about economic conditions and climate change. But everyone I spoke with mainly wanted to...
  • Is the economy creating a lost generation?

    12/09/2012 9:21:05 PM PST · by MinorityRepublican · 25 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | Sunday, December 9, 2012 | Robert Samuelson
    This is not a good time to be starting out in life. Jobs are scarce, and those that exist often pay unexpectedly low wages. Beginning a family — always stressful and uncertain — is increasingly a stretch. The weak economy begets weak family formation. We instinctively know this; several new studies now deepen our understanding. When the labor market operates smoothly, it creates an economic escalator. Just out of high school or college, young workers typically switch jobs frequently until they find something that fits their talent and temperament. Job changes often mean higher pay; people move to advance themselves....
  • 90 Pregnancies At One Memphis High School

    01/14/2011 8:49:30 AM PST · by markomalley · 78 replies
    Chicago Tribune ^ | 1/14/11 | Bonny Kinney
    About 90 students at a Memphis High School are either pregnant, or have been recently. The startling news was confirmed by a high ranking city official and comes as the community plans to roll out a new initiative to help combat the problem. However, one Frayser High School graduate says teen pregnancy is not a new problem for the school. "When we would come back from summer break, there would be a thousand people pregnant. We were like, what's going on?" joked Alicia Williamson, who graduated from Frayser in 2004. "There were a whole lot of bellies. You had to...
  • World remembers sacrifice of World War I lost generation

    11/11/2009 2:56:52 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 6 replies · 713+ views
    AFP on Yahoo ^ | 11/11/09 | Rory Mulholland
    PARIS (AFP) – Former foes France and Germany held a joint World War I Armistice Day ceremony for the first time as events around the globe Wednesday honoured the millions killed in the conflict. President Barack Obama, speaking at a ceremony in the United States, hailed "the brave men and women of this young nation, generations of them, who above all else believed in and fought for a set of ideals." In London, Queen Elizabeth II led tributes to the war dead, including the growing number of soldiers killed in Afghanistan. But the last British veteran of the 1914-18 conflict...
  • Constance E. Cook, 89, Who Wrote Abortion Law, Is Dead [Assumes Room Temperature at 89]

    01/24/2009 10:53:22 PM PST · by Arthur McGowan · 36 replies · 1,253+ views
    New York Slimes ^ | January 24, 2009 | NYT Obituaries
    New York woman goes to meet Satan, her lord and master.
  • Baby Boomers Have Destroyed the World

    12/31/2008 5:10:07 PM PST · by AmericaSpeaksInk · 69 replies · 2,269+ views
    America Speaks Ink ^ | December 31st, 2008 | C. Rich
    Inevitably, at the end of, and the beginning of each year we are all subject to some “year in review” served up right to us through the dysfunctional eyes of some baby boomer. Their constant comparisons to everything from the sixties and, in the strangest way, always telling us that our hard times today just aren’t anything compared to some bizarre year they pull out of their tuckus from the sixties. I’m so sick of these people. The baby boomers are the most self absorbed, dysfunctional group of malcontents that have ever been created in the history of the United...
  • Rallies Mark Roe V. Wade Anniversary

    01/22/2006 12:30:40 PM PST · by wagglebee · 30 replies · 559+ views
    My Way News ^ | 1/22/06 | JUSTIN M. NORTON/AP
    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Thousands of abortion opponents shouldering signs with slogans such as "Peace Begins in the Womb" marched in protest of the 33-year-old Roe v. Wade decision, while abortion rights supporters along the march route waved clothes hangers and shouted "Bigots go home." The dueling protests - marking Sunday's anniversary of the Supreme Court decision - reflected the growing tension at a time the makeup of the high court is about to change with Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement. "It's a crucial time," said abortion rights supporter Carol Norris, 43, who joined the counter-protest in San Francisco Saturday....
  • States Step Up Fight on Abortion

    01/22/2006 12:33:26 PM PST · by mdittmar · 5 replies · 368+ views
    latimes.com ^ | January 22, 2006 | P.J. Huffstutter and Stephanie Simon
    INDIANAPOLIS — Taking direct aim at Roe vs. Wade, lawmakers from several states are proposing broad restrictions on abortion, with the goal of forcing the U.S. Supreme Court — once it has a second new justice — to revisit the landmark ruling issued 33 years ago today.
  • Expressing yourself is not part of your job

    03/15/2005 11:59:58 AM PST · by Willie Green · 111 replies · 3,893+ views
    The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | Tuesday, March 15, 2005 | Mike Seate
    The kid at the checkout counter obviously had other career plans. His arms were covered with thick, black Celtic tattoos, designed like the crosses you might see atop ancient gravestones in the British isles. On his index finger, he wore a long, chrome implement of some sort, an articulated armored glove that looked like either a prop from an all-night Dungeons and Dragons tournament or a leftover from Stevie Nicks' fall collection. As he began pulling items on the electronic conveyor belt toward the scanner at his cash register, he absent-mindedly poked me in the wrist with his miniature lance,...
  • The Lost Generation: 30 Years of Roe v. Wade

    01/19/2003 11:47:36 PM PST · by prezhz · 4 replies · 148+ views
    Renew America ^ | January 20 | Hans Zeiger
    THE LOST GENERATION: 30 YEARS OF ROE V. WADE by Hans Zeiger In a sad sort of way, I am blessed to have survived the year 1985. That was the year I was born, and the year that 1.6 million of my fellow American citizens were murdered in abortion clinics. 1985 was the year that more abortions were performed than in any other year before or since except 1988 and 1990. Numbed by the widespread cultural acceptance of abortion, I lack the emotional regrets that old soldiers do when they reflect on their friends lost in battle. But the year...