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This week, Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW) and other women’s organizations met with Vice President Biden and other Administration officials about the importance of equal pay to the economic security of women and their families. Additionally, the White House hosted a call on Women and the Economy to reinforce the importance of passing the Paycheck Fairness Act (S.
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White House Backs Paycheck Fairness Act
The Minnesota Women’s Consortium , the state lead of the Minnesota Elder Economic Security Initiative (MinnEESI), has been busy these past few months planning a forum on the economic security of older women in the state. This week all of their hard work came to fruition and the Minnesota Women’s Consortium co-hosted the forum with the Office on the Economic Status of Women (OESW). Advocates and experts in aging from across the St
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MinnEESI Update
Although the current unemployment rate still hovers at around ten percent, the Senate last week failed to end debate and pass a measure to extend unemployment insurance (UI) and other workforce development provisions on behalf of the millions of Americans still out of work.
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More than 1 Million No Longer Receive Unemployment Insurance
On the 15th June 1920, three black circus workers were attacked and lynched by a mob in Duluth, Minnesota. Rumors that six African Americans had raped a teenage girl gave rise to a mob of five to ten thousand locals
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Postcard of the Hanging
The Urban Institute is holding a series of forums this summer on Social Security, including one last week called “The Future of Social Security: Solvency, Adequacy & Equity, and Work” ( Click here for information on the July forum). Panelists, including Virginia P.
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Doomsday for Social Security isn’t the Truth
Unlimited data plans are currently used by Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile. When you buy a smartphone, you have two plans, voice and data, and at the moment (on those networks), only the former is variable.
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Say Goodbye to Unlimited Smartphone Data Plans: Verizon to Fall Soon
Three new task lights made by the company Humanscale debuted at the NeoCon trade show this week in Chicago, each of them highly-efficient, LED-powered machines made from supersustainable recycled aluminum. Element 790 (above), for example, uses just seven watts of power while outputting the equivalent of 90 watts of incandenscent light. Although one LED bulb in the Element 790 will get you 60,000 hours of light, if that’s not enough, Humanscale’s LEDs can be easily replaced, unlike other LED lights on the market
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Three New LED Lights by Humanscale Are Smart, Bright, Efficient
Asked at Fast Company’s Most Creative People event last week about how she asks others to take risks, (RED) CEO Susan Smith Ellis offered a one-word answer.
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How (RED) CEO Susan Smith Ellis Tapped Damien Hirst to Raise Millions for Africa
It seems obvious: flying short distances is less efficient than taking the train. We never expected an airline executive to admit as much, but JetBlue Chief Operating Officer Rob Maruster surprised us all at the recent “Airports: 21st Century Makeovers For The New York Metro Region” conference when he noted that high-speed rail often makes more sense than flying.
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JetBlue COO Thinks Flying From New York to Boston Is a Waste
E3 has concluded, the press events passed and the booth tours finished. Microsoft and Sony both are turning to their respective motion controls to extend the life of this generation of their video game consoles, and each revealed new games and hardware. Now that the dust has settled from the showdown, which platform came out the winner from this year’s game extravaganza?
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Microsoft’s Kinect vs. Sony’s PlayStation Move: E3 Showdown
Cigarette manufacturers, beware: the FDA won’t stand for any creative workarounds to its ruling requiring companies to remove descriptors like “light,” “mild,” and “low tar” from cigarette packaging. The New York Times reports that the FDA is opening an investigation into Altria Group, the maker of Marlboro Lights, because of notes on packaging that read, “Your Marlboro Lights package is changing, but your cigarette stays the same,” and “In the future, ask for Marlboro in the gold pack.” The FDA’s letter to Altria warns the company against its latest misleading tactics: By stating that only the packaging is changing, but the cigarettes will stay the same, the onsert suggests that Marlboro in the gold pack will have the same characteristics as Marlboro Lights, including any mistaken attributes associated with the “light” cigarettes. Although the onsert includes some disclaimer language, Congress found that disclaimers have been ineffective in eliminating mistaken beliefs regarding “low tar” and “light” cigarettes.
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FDA Calls Marlboro Out on Creative Marketing of "Light" Cigarettes
What would the zombie classic Night of the Living Dead look like as a mash-up of mixed-media scenes from today’s creative visionaries? Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated, a collaboration between 150 artists and animators, attempts to answer the question using sock puppets, oil paintings, CGI, hand-drawn animation, and everything in between
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Night of the Living Dead, Reimagined by Today’s Artists
Meet Justin, the space robot . He’s clever, agile, wired to a human for control (of the robot, not the human) and he’s a possible solution for fixing orbiting satellites in the post-Shuttle era.
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Space Robot Can Repair Ships or Bring Satellites to Fiery Doom
With the Red Bull Air Race coming to New York City this weekend, I was offered an opportunity to fly in one of the aerobatic planes that will be zipping along the Hudson and buzzing the Statue of Liberty. The idea is to get a feel for the high speeds and intense G forces pilots experience as they negotiate a track that one veteran flyer said was designed by a “bumble bee in a jam jar.” As I ride out to Linden Airfield in New Jersey, I casually ask my contact about crashing.
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Danger Zone: What It’s Like to Fly in Red Bull’s Aerobatic Plane
Apple ‘s iPhone 4 has now been manhandled and fondled and talked about endlessly … but in the days before its launch we’ve still not seen one in action in the wild… until today.
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Leaked iPhone 4 Enables First Hands-On Review
This week I’m attending the Design Management Institute conference in San Francisco again. The conference is Re-Thinking…The Future of Design , and the conversations on stage are focused on tracking how design thinking is making a difference in business.
This post was written by Matt McDermott for Planet Greet, and a follow up to a post earlier this week on the differing impact of Cap and Trade on socio-economic classes. In practice a cap and trade program for carbon emissions is a pretty complex thing, no doubt about it.
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Cap and Trade: It’s Not That Complicated
A new interactive feature lets you follow trending topics on Twitter in real time. Vuvuzelas, goals, red cards: How to keep up with it all? A new interactive feature from CNN lets you watch not just the World Cup action but the reaction, which can occasionally be even more entertaining.
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Infographic of the Day: CNN’s World Cup Twitter Site
Cars set modern planning on an unsustainable path: Cars begat wide, unwalkable roads, which begat highways, which begat suburban sprawl.
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How to Design Cities for People Instead of Cars
One of the characters in this novel asks Mike, the narrator: “What would freedom look like?” The following is from page 2: In the sitting room there’s a photo of Miranda, which I took on a cold weekend walk at the Norfolk coast. She’s standing with her back to the camera, looking out to sea. The light is coming straight at the lens, and she’s little more than a silhouette: big boots, narrow shoulders wrapped in an ethnic something-or-other, hair streaming in the wind.
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My Revolutions by Hari Kunzru