Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
coming of age One of the largest generations in history is about to move into its prime spending years. Millennials are poised to reshape the economy; their unique experiences will change the ways we buy and sell, forcing companies to examine how they do business for decades to come. Millennials Infographic.
(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File) Last week was the first ever National Adjunct Walkout Day, a grassroots protest to push for fair pay and better working conditions. Protests and teach-ins took place on as many as 100 campuses nationwide, prompting at least one university to create a task force to address labor concerns. It’s little wonder that a national movement has sprung up…
P.S. 116’s principal announced that students will no longer be assigned traditional homework. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Heather Holland KIPS BAY — A public elementary school is abolishing traditional homework assignments and telling kids to play instead — outraging parents who say they may pull their kids out of the school. Teachers at P.S. 116 on East…
Last month I turned in my badge and my iPad at CFO.com, after a year plus slightly less than 6 months. A few days earlier, my then-girlfriend had been downsized from her company in a consolidation. So I’ve been spending some time thinking about the economics of work. The last decade has seen the rise…
William Dudley, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, delivered a speech on Wednesday morning that drove home just how dangerous an investment student loans are for American taxpayers. Speaking at a conference on student loan data, Dudley outlined the consequences of the unique way the U.S. government lends money to people for college. Government student loans…
Photo Charles Constance, 53, has been unable to find steady work. Until recently, he and his 9-year old son, Pablo, lived at a homeless shelter in New Orleans. Credit William Widmer for The New York Times The safety net helped keep Camille Saunders from falling, but not Charles Constance. The difference? Ms. Saunders has a…
While the world’s attention is glued to events in Greece, the real action continues to evolve quietly thousands of kilometers east, in China, where the near record surge in new loans remains unable to offset the dramatic slowdown in shadow banking issuance. And while China’s bubble-chasing, animal spirits have recently reoriented themselves from real estate…
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Published: Monday, February 16, 2015, 10:06 PM Updated: Tuesday, February 17, 2015, 2:49 PM They’re 500 feet apart: the city’s most expensive penthouse and a 50-year-old homeless man swaddled in five blankets. “I just survive,” Deuce said Monday, as he burrowed deeper to escape the brutal cold just half a block…
coins metadata inserted by kblog-metadata At some point Thursday, the title of Jon Ronson’s essay changed from “How One Stupid Tweet Ruined Justine Sacco’s Life” to “How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life.” The change helps, because while “blew up” is figurative language—and thus, obviously not to be taken literally—the statement that Sacco’s life was…
The Education Department trumpeted this week that the nation’s high school graduation rate has reached a record high…of 81 percent. Viewed another way, the data shows that nearly one in five students who started high school in 2009 didn’t graduate four years later. While that’s not a bad stat as far as the U.S. is…