Happiness & Success
Achieving Happiness Through Acceptance of Life
The quest for happiness often leads to frustration, as many fail to realize that the...
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- Written by: Eileen Workman
A new economic model would need to be win/win, far different from the win/lose paradigm under which we’ve been operating.
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- Written by: Thom Hartmann
Forgiving student debt is not a slap at anybody; it's righting a moral wrong inflicted on millions by Reagan and his morbidly rich Republican buddies.
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- Written by: Paul Allin et al
It’s an odd quirk of history that, on the first day of his ill-fated presidential campaign in March 1968, Robert F Kennedy chose to talk to his audience about the limitations of gross domestic product* (GDP) – the world’s headline indicator of economic progress.
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- Written by: Michele Gilman, University of Baltimore
Reproductive health isn’t just about abortion, despite all the attention the procedure gets. It’s also about access to family planning services, contraception, sex education and much else – all of which have also come under threat in recent years.
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- Written by: Sarah Avery, Duke University
Health care workers experienced high rates of potential “moral injury” that are comparable to rates experienced by military veterans, according to a new study.
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- Written by: John Logan, San Francisco State University
As a scholar of the labor movement who has observed union drives for two decades, what I find almost as striking as the victories is the unconventional nature of the organizing campaigns. Both the Starbucks and Amazon-Staten Island campaigns have been led by determined young workers.
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- Written by: Richard Vague
The United States was founded at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and has met with extraordinary business success from the days of its founding. Upon that success was built the broad prosperity of the new nation and the opportunity for great fortunes for the bold.
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- Written by: Veronika Dolar, SUNY Old Westbury
Economists typically focus on the three big macroeconomic variables: gross domestic product, unemployment and inflation.
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- Written by: Scott L. Montgomery, University of Washington
Russia’s war against Ukraine will change the landscape of global energy and its geopolitics in profound ways. Pieces of this terrain have already begun shifting.
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- Written by: Alexander Kurov, West Virginia University and Marketa Wolfe, Skidmore College
There’s a growing bipartisan push to prohibit members of Congress from buying or selling stocks. The shift follows news reports that several senators sold stocks shortly after receiving coronavirus briefings in early 2020 and that at least 57 lawmakers have failed to disclose financial transactions since 2012 as required by law.
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- Written by: Rich Barlow, Boston University
New research finds men’s risk tolerance and overconfidence play a role in the gender wage gap.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, Innerself.com
There have been some standout successes for some countries dealing with this Covid pandemic.
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- Written by: Robert Massa, University of Southern California
Sixteen universities – including six in the Ivy League – are accused in a lawsuit of having engaged in price fixing and unfairly limiting financial aid by using a shared methodology to calculate the financial need of applicants.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, Innerself.com
Millions of Americans have no health insurance and even if the do they live in fear that one illness could bankrupt them.
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- Written by: Jade McClain, New York University
Dickens consciously thought of A Christmas Carol as a message book, which he hoped would deliver what he called a 'sledge-hammer' blow on behalf of ameliorating the suffering of the urban poor
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, Innerself.com
The means to achieve quality healthcare for all is there. All that is lacking is the people's will and demand. But how?
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, Innerself.com
The means to achieve quality healthcare for all is there. All that is lacking is the people's will and demand. But how?
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
We are almost all lucky to have someone in our lives to encourage and motivate us and try to show us the way. But ultimately we have to live the choice.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
We are almost all lucky to have someone in our lives to encourage and motivate us and try to show us the way. But ultimately we have to live the choice.
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- Written by: Sara Savat-WUSTL
An impossible standard is at the root of gender inequalities in the workplace, according to two new studies on inflexibility and discrimination against mothers.
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- Written by: Jackie Cassell, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
The precarious economies of many traditional seaside towns have declined still further since the 1970s when an explosion of cheap holiday flights and package tours to Spain and...
