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09/03/10

Have you looked at “ The 4-Hour Workweek ” by Timonty Ferriss? This book is meant for current and would-be entrepreneurs looking to “Escape the 9-5, live anywhere and join the new rich.” At first glance, Ferriss’ ideas on generating passive streams of income, mini retirements and remote work from...

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Jenya Cassidy

Health Care

09/03/10

Q: I am a single mom with a severely disabled daughter and have great concern about "rationed" health care affecting the most vulnerable people in our society; i.e., the elderly and disabled. Please discuss how reform will not adversely affect this population. A: The new law will not ration care...

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Elaine Saly

Open Flexible Work

09/03/10

This is so powerful that this one single shift will catapult your efforts to improve everything from cost containment to business processes to personnel relations and teambuilding. From a Bang-for-the-Buck perspective, this change alone will give your life a healthy booster shot. Aside from shame...

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Ian Blei

09/03/10

From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org HuffPo has a fascinating article about gender pay disparity and its causes - discrimination against women, or simply differing life style choices? A wonderful piece, but make sure you read...

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Valerie Young

Health Care

09/02/10

Governor Schwarzenegger holds the power to improve access to maternity care coverage for all women in his state and ensure equitable coverage for children with pre-existing conditions. Last week, the California Legislature passed two bills which will significantly impact the health and lives of...

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Amie Newman

Open Flexible Work

09/02/10

Unfortunately we have some very unhealthy fibers woven into the fabric of our culture—unhealthy from the perspective of untold damage with no rewards. Dating back through pre-colonial Puritan days, shame has been a large part of our culture. In a simplistic, black-and-white, childlike view, shame...

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Ian Blei

Open Flexible Work Blog Carnivals

09/01/10

This March, we were thrilled to be part of the White House Forum on Workplace Flexibility . Through the President and First Lady’s leadership, the Obama Administration launched a national conversation on how innovative workplace flexibility strategies can help support working families and – at the...

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Jessica Glenn

Open Flexible Work Blog Carnivals

09/01/10

Front-line employees are the backbone of industry. Many are also parents. When a mother or father comes home from a workday, one or both make dinner, help the kids with homework, read stories at bed-time – all working parents know we have both the role of employee and parent to fulfill. The vast...

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Sue Bingham

Open Flexible Work Blog Carnivals

09/01/10

I have a friend in the professional services sector in New York, working in one of those pressure-cooker 24/7 type of environments I wrote about recently . In fact I have a whole lot of friends in these industries. They work insane hours and are, for the most part, remunerated very well. Most of...

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Chrysula Winegar

09/01/10

A school in Richmond, California, is handing schoolchildren jerseys embedded with RFID chips to keep so administrators can monitor children's movement; problem is, RFID chips are unsecure, and could actually make preschoolers more vulnerable to tracking, stalking, and kidnapping.

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