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Over the past four years, the number of million-dollar homes in the US has doubled. In 19 American towns, 100% of residences are now worth at least seven figures. Those findings come from real-estate listing company Trulia, which included properties not currently listed for sale in its calculations. Hanalei CDP, HI 100% Rolling Hills city,…
Some millennials may never get to experience the joys of playing bocce and telling kids to get off their lawn, as 12 percent of Americans between the ages of 20 and 34 expect to work until they die. A study, released on Tuesday by workforce solutions company Manpower Group and conducted by surveyor Reputation Leaders, found…
Photo Hannah Kloepfer, an actress and writer, testing shower heads at Pirch, a SoHo store selling luxury home fixtures that is set to open to the public on Saturday. Credit Yana Paskova for The New York Times Someone closed the wide glass doors and pulled the curtains — for privacy — and Hannah Kloepfer did…
.post-info .has-bugs .single-featured-image Tuesday, April 14, is the 19th annual Equal Pay Day. The day is a symbolic representation of the gender pay gap: The average woman would have had to work all last year and into April this year to earn as much as the average man did in 2014 alone. But speaking in…
Gender disparities in income are greater in many white-collar U.S. professions than blue-collar and don’t lend themselves to legislative remedies Dr. Anne Montgomery, left, says her pay has lagged behind that of husband Dr. Glen Stream, center, because of trade-offs for her family. ‘To get back up to speed takes a while,’ she says. PHOTO: SANDY HUFFAKER…
From a purely aesthetic standpoint, I love tiny houses. My own apartment is a little over 300 square feet, most of which is taken up by a Murphy bed. The idea of building an entire free-standing structure where every appliance and piece of furniture can fold into something else is very appealing. And for decades…
Number of mothers in the U.S.: 43.5 million Percentage of people in the U.S. who celebrate Mother’s Day: 84 Percentage of private sector workers without access to paid family leave: 88 Number of weeks new parents can take off under New York’s recently passed paid leave law: 12 Average out-of-pocket cost per week to employees…
The national suicide rate is at its highest in nearly 30 years. Why? (Photo: Silvia Sala/Flickr) So much for a country built on boundless optimism. More Americans are committing suicide now than at any other time in the last 30 years, according to a new analysis by the National Center for Health Statistics. The NCHS…
Rarely a day goes by where I don’t hear some politician or pundit claim that the American Dream has become unattainable for too many. It’s also a common theme in my Facebook feed. Sometimes the culprit is student debt. Sometimes it’s static wages, or the disappearance of pensions and manufacturing jobs. Sometimes it’s how predatory…
Happy Equal Pay Day! Facebook and Microsoft just announced that their companies have closed the wage gap; both have announced that they pay all employees the same wages for the same work. Let’s give them a firm pat on the back for catching up to the Equal Pay Act of 1963, shall we? Only 53 years and the tech industry finally…