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: David Korten, YES! Magazine
In rolling back decades of social and environmental progress, will Trump also expose the Great Growth Con? The con promises that economic growth—measured by gross domestic product—will benefit everyone, rich and poor alike.
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- Written by: Mark Gruenberg, Peoples World
Employer associations are predicting a raise in the federal minimum wage will cause employers to lay off workers.
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- Written by: Stanford University
Young people entering the workforce today are far less likely to earn more than their parents when compared to children born two generations earlier, new research shows.
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- Written by: Lance Wallace, Georgia Institute of Technology
Since social scientists and economists began measuring poverty, its definition has never strayed far from a discussion of income.
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- Written by: Kristin Ohlson, Ensia
When federal crop insurance rules stymied Gail Fuller’s attempts to innovate, he knew something had to change.
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- Written by: Stephanie Desmon, Johns Hopkins University
A cancer diagnosis can be a serious financial hardship for many elderly and disabled patients on Medicare, with annual out-of-pocket costs ranging from $2,116 to $8,115, on top of what they pay for health insurance, a new survey shows.
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- Written by: Rachel Harrison, New York University
New research links income inequality with greater civic engagement among young people—particularly among young people of color and those of lower socioeconomic status.
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- Written by: Rachel Harrison, New York University
Teachers communicate with parents based on their racial and immigrant backgrounds—not just their child’s academic performance—research finds.
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- Written by: Nick Buffie, CEPR
A common argument for the decline in employment in recent years is that more workers are dropping out of the labor force to live off public benefits, particularly Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI).
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- Written by: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams
Trump's transition site says administration will 'modernize Medicare'—code for Ryan-style death by privatization
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- Written by: Gillian Kiley, Brown University
In all parts of the United States, the number of neighborhoods that are home to a mix of black, white, Asian, and Hispanic residents is growing.
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- Written by: Lisa Chedekel, Boston University
The two largest soda makers in the US use their sponsorships of health organizations to bolster their image, which helps them lobby against public health bills, a new study suggests.
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- Written by: Boston University
New research finds racial disparities in emergency treatment for certain types of pain, specifically backaches and stomachaches.
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- Written by: Hongyi Li and Anton Kolotilin, UNSW Australia
The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science has just been awarded to Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström for building the foundations of contract theory.
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- Written by: Bill Hathaway, Yale University
Sophisticated eye-tracking technology shows that preschool teachers “show a tendency to more closely observe black students, and especially boys, when challenging behaviors are expected.”
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- Written by: Gerald K. LeTendre, Pennsylvania State University
Most of us know the difference a good teacher makes in the life of a child. Many global institutions working to improve access to education, such as the United Nations, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and Education International agree that “teacher quality” is the critical element in whether or not an educational system succeeds.
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- Written by: Kate Becker, Boston University
New research may explain why American children resist their parents’ instructions to share.
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- Written by: Milenko Martinovich, University of Florida
Gender bias can influence how supervisors view a manager’s long-term potential, a new study shows.
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- Written by: Patrick Ring, Glasgow Caledonian University
Even the Bank of England’s chief economist, Andy Haldane, admits to “not being able to make the remotest sense of pensions”. So what chance has everybody else? Many people find pensions and saving for retirement confusing and worrying.
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- Written by: Elizabeth C. Tippett, University of Oregon
Over the course of four years, at least 5,000 Wells Fargo employees opened more than a million fake bank and credit card accounts on behalf of unwitting customers.
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- Written by: Robert Reich
Imagine a little gadget called an i-Everything. You can’t get it yet, but if technology keeps moving as fast as it is now, the i-Everything will be with us before you know it.
