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: Sarah van Gelder, YES! Magazine
Societies tend to become more unequal over time, unless there is concerted pushback. A society that fails to invest in its children, to protect its land and water, or to build a future is courting collapse. The process feeds on itself, growing like a cancer...
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- Written by: Jim Logan-UC Santa Barbara
New research strongly suggests the days of high manufacturing employment in the United States, and just about every other country, are over
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- Written by: Tom Snee-University Of Iowa
Children from low-income families who attend a school that offers free breakfasts do better academically in math, science, and reading, report researchers.
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- Written by: David Spencer, Professor of Economics and Political Economy, University of Leeds
The UK’s employment rate has been at a record high. Figures from the Office for National Statistics show that unemployment in the UK fell by 60,000 between October and December 2015, with the highest number of people in work since records began in 1971.
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- Written by: Steven Pressman, Colorado State University
The U.S. middle class has always had a special mystique. It is the heart of the American dream. A decent income and home, doing better than one’s parents, and retiring in comfort are all hallmarks of a middle-class lifestyle.
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- Written by: Amanda Lee, Professor, School of Public Health and Social Work; School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Queensland University of Technology
To improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nutrition and health we need real community consultation, improved public governance and political will. After years of neglect and a notable absence in last week’s Closing the Gap report, nutrition is finally being recognised as integral to closing the gap on Indigenous disadvantage.
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- Written by: Dariush Mozaffarian, Tufts University
So far, policymakers have tried to reduce costs by tinkering with how care is delivered. But focusing on care delivery to save money is like trying to reduce the costs of house fires by focusing on firefighters and fire stations.
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- Written by: Lowell B. Denny, III, People's World
A number of recent articles in the corporate press around the country highlight the ongoing dilemma the capitalist class faces in dealing with the persistent and rising homelessness problem.
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- Written by: Alison Jones, Duke University
After states suffer significant job losses, college attendance drops among the poorest students of the next generation, a new study suggests.
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- Written by: Julie Davies and Joanne Blake, University of Huddersfield
There is little doubt that the challenging, turbulent and uncertain times faced by the UK’s university sector in 2016 are set to continue well into 2017
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- Written by: Gillian Kiley, Brown University
Government spending on the military yields fewer jobs, dollar for dollar, than spending on domestic programs such as health care, energy, infrastructure, and education, according to new a new study.
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- Written by: AJ Earley
I was beyond frustrated. I felt extremely hopeless. I believed that I had zero options, despite the fact that I could no longer remain in the same physical or mental state. My bills had piled up so much I was about to get evicted. I had to do something. I got into my uninsured car and drove myself back to the E.R.
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- Written by: David Korten, YES! Magazine
This is the real-world economy for a living Earth that we must learn to structure and manage to provide a safe space for humanity.
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- Written by: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams
'Declines in absolute mobility have been a systematic, widespread phenomenon throughout the United States since 1940,' the authors of the new study write.
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- Written by: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams
Ruling against 'zero-rating' prevents 'Big Telecom from exploiting data caps to pick and choose winners and losers online'
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- Written by: Andy Henion, Michigan State University
Teachers don’t just leave their jobs because of low pay and retirement, new research shows. Their perceptions of a broken education system also contribute.
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- Written by: Deirdre Fulton, Common Dreams
'We have got to end the international disgrace of being the only major country on earth not to guarantee healthcare to all people as a right not a privilege.'
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- Written by: Bernard Weisberger, BillMoyers.com
In these pestilent, perilous times, when the very idea of distinction between truth and falsehood is under siege, it’s more critical than ever to keep a sharp lookout for destructive false analogies.
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- Written by: Arun Gupta, YES! Magazine
All along the Pacific Coast, environmentalists are gearing up for an epic fight.
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- Written by: Jean-Noel Barrot, MIT Sloan School of Management
Operating a small business, the backbone of the U.S. economy, has always been tough. But small businesses have also been disproportionately hurt
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- Written by: Paul Buchheit, Common Dreams
The American tax system, in which those with the least pay the most.
