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This Map Shows The Clear Divide Between New York's 'Creative' And Working Class
This is the first post in a series exploring class divides across America's largest cities and metros.Social class, an inescapable presence in American life, influences almost every aspect of our...
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People Need To Learn The Skills That Really Matter
As I finished up my weekly newsletter of NYC's tech events and classes, I thought a lot about some recent conversations I've had with some new entrants into the startup ecosystem--enthusiastic young...
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Here's What We Really Mean When We Say 'Middle Class'
Last week, President Obama went on the road promoting an economic agenda for the middle class. As expected, John Boehner and other Republicans fired back by charging Obama with “squeezing the middle...
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Eating McDonald's Is A Major Status Symbol Overseas
Along the upward journey to middle-class status, a growing number of people around the world are working up quite a voracious appetite. The developing world has fallen big time for all-American exports...
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You Can Get The Wisdom Of Nobel Prize Winner Robert Shiller For Free Online
Yale professor Robert Shiller, one of the three brilliant economists who won the Nobel Prize for Economics Monday morning, will teach you everything you need to know about financial markets for...
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Rutgers Will Offer A Bruce Springsteen Theology Class
Anyone who has listened to much Bruce Springsteen has surely noticed the singer's fondness for Biblical allusions in his lyrics, now Rutgers University is making a study of them.The college in New...
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Class In America: Mobility, Measured
AMERICANS are deeply divided as to whether widening inequality is a problem, let alone what the government should do about it. Some are appalled that Bill Gates has so much money; others say good luck...
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Why Workout Classes Are Finally Catching On With Men
Every fitness goal I met this past year I owe to someone wearing a headset and barking orders over some of the vilest pop remixes ever heard you ever heard outside of an Alvin and the Chipmunks movie....
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For The First Time Ever, Students Can Take Driver's Ed From An iPhone App
Students now have the option of taking an online driver’s education course through an iOS app from Austin-based startup Aceable.Aceable is focused on making required state and federal training courses...
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How To Break Into The Upper Class
The President says the economy is improving, and even a Federal Reserve study released this summer shows an expanding economy. Despite what the numbers say, public sentiment paints a very different and...
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Here's Why Infant Mortality Is So High In The US
A recent working paper from the National Bureau for Economic Research suggests that high infant mortality in the US is a problem that disproportionately affects poor women with infants who are between...
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Google's New Classroom App Lets Kids Turn In Homework With Their Phones (GOOG)
Google has a new app called Classroom, and it allows students to turn in homework assignments using their phones.Classroom could actually be helpful for teachers because it connects to the...
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The American upper class is dying and giving birth to something new
Yesterday's American upper class is becoming part of a new global upper class. The upper income group in the United States still exists, of course, but they are no longer really an American social...
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The most important divide in America today is growing
The most important divide in America today is class, not race, and the place where it matters most is in the home. Conservatives have been banging on about family breakdown for decades. Now one of the...
View ArticleA teacher explains what teachers really do all day
In a speech at a Campaign for America's Future event, National Education Association president and teacher Lily Eskelsen Garcia gave a rousing explanation for what the teaching profession entails.After...
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Modern society may be built on a terrifying legacy of human sacrifice
We may have ritual killing to thank in part for our complex modern society, according to a new study in Nature.Human sacrifice is not a rare or isolated human behavior. It's been done throughout...
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What happened in this city explains why Britain voted for Brexit
Britain is still reeling from the economic and political shock of the EU referendum result.While the nation struggles to get to grips with the consequences of Brexit, many in the UK and around the...
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12 signs you're in the wrong college major — even if it doesn't feel like it
It goes without saying that choosing your college degree is a major decision.It's a choice that likely will impact your entire college experience, not to mention your future career.Some students arrive...
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I learned more from my terrible college jobs than I ever did in class
I got my first "unglamorous" job when I was 16, when I was more than happy to strap on roller skates and skate around Sonic Drive-In for $6.25 an hour.I was incredibly proud when I got hired, relishing...
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The rich really might pay less attention to other people
When some people walk past you, it can feel as though you're invisible to them. Turns out, you may be right.In a small recent study, researchers from New York University found that those who considered...
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