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Duration matters: The longer someone was out of work, the more likely it is that they’ve quit looking. Of the total, 55 percent who were unemployed for more than two years fell into the category; 32 percent of those idle for 13 to 24 months and 34 percent out for seven to 12 months had…
*** CONTENT STARTS HERE *** START END LEDE W/TEXT UNDER FULL-WIDTH IMG The CEO Paying Everyone $70,000 Salaries Has Something to Hide Inside the viral story of Gravity CEO Dan Price. By Karen Weise | December 1, 2015 Photographs by Nathanael Turner From BODY COPY CENTERED It seemed too good to be true. On April 13,…
It was an abrupt and unambiguous declaration to her 226,000 Twitter followers — and her countless more fans. On Saturday, adult actress, writer and entrepreneur Stoya announced on Twitter, “That thing where you log in to the internet for a second and see people idolizing the guy who raped you as a feminist. That thing sucks.”…
There was a lot of confusion about Donald Trump’s meeting with black pastors from around the country. Was it on? Was it off? Was it an endorsement? In the end, about 100 leaders of prominent African American churches came to talk to Trump. He expected an endorsement, but as Larry Wilmore explained on Tuesday’s “Nightly Show,” got…
FILE PHOTO FROM YESTERDAY (Nell Casey/Gothamist) “How about that L train?” has joined the official NYC Exasperation Lexicon alongside other familiar rhetorical questions like “It’s not a big group birthday dinner is it?” and “Is that raw sewage dripping from the ceiling?” This morning the old gal was up to her usual zany antics,…
Recent calls for the removal of Woodrow Wilson’s name from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs finds similitude, if not echoes, in University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Rhodes Must Fall movement which succeeded, as it were, in removing the statue of Cecil John Rhodes from where it had stood on the campus grounds…
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. (Jay Laprete/Reuters) Let’s not mince words: Donald Trump is a bigot and a racist. Some will think this an outrageous label to apply to the frontrunner for a major party’s presidential nomination. Ordinarily, I would agree that name-calling is part of what’s wrong with our politics. Dana Milbank writes…
As the old saying kind of goes, reports of the impending demise of CEO Marissa Mayer at Yahoo are greatly exaggerated. And so are rumors that the board of the Silicon Valley Internet giant is poised to sell off the entire core business. Consider the Wall Street Journal’s reporting last night that there is some…
MANHATTAN — Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to change some of the city’s existing zoning regulations as part of his 10-year plan to create 80,000 new affordable units of housing and preserve another 120,000. The 526-page plan has implications for every neighborhood in New York City. Department of City Planning officials have visited community boards…
Dec. 2, 2015 7:00 a.m. ET Veteran tech site Engadget is getting a face-lift and a new outlook on life. The 11-year-old blog is unveiling a significant redesign of its site on Wednesday amid a move to broaden its focus beyond gadgets and consumer technology and re-establish itself in the crowded tech news space. Engadget,…