1. Baby Boomers aren’t ready to get old. Caring for them will alter the meaning of work and free time. By Jennifer Oldham in Pacific Standard 2. If graduates accept unpaid internships, they’ll earn less later. By Jamie Doward in the Guardian 3. South Korean women will soon outlive us all. What’s their secret? By…
NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – The creators and cast of the Emmy-nominated web series “Tough Love” know what it’s like to navigate love, dating and relationships in New York City. The series follows six millennials as they try to do just that. “Tough Love” premiered in 2015 and received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for…
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A Westchester County woman was all smiles Monday evening after her wedding ring was recovered in a New York City sewer. CBS2’s Marc Liverman spoke exclusively to Sarah Sommer, and the Good Samaritans who helped her get her ring back. Every day in New York, millions of people walk over grates…
via Con Ed Crew Helps Woman Get Ring Back After It Falls Down Sidewalk Grate — CBS New York
This story reminds me of the time I dropped my keys on the train track!
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Protestors in the Bronx were fired up on Monday, saying an affordable housing building is ruining the neighborhood with noise and drugs. As CBS2’s Reena Roy reported, tenants claim it’s just not true. Local leaders and elected officials were getting their message out loud and clear on White Plains Road. They…
via Residents, Community Leaders Say Affordable Housing Is Ruining Bronx Neighborhood — CBS New York
(NEW DELHI) — When Rani’s husband died by drinking pesticide, he left the family in debt. But even if they could pay off the loans, Rani said their farming days are over. “There are no rains,” said the 44-year-old woman from drought-stricken Tamil Nadu, one of hundreds of farmers protesting in the capital for more…
via Farmer Suicides Rise in India as Climate Change Takes Its Toll — TIME
This post lets us know that there is a strong possibility that children today may still have the same goals, dreams, and aspirations as children in the 80’s and 90’s. Just because they value different hobbies and don’t do the same exact thing their parents were doing at their age; doesn’t mean we give up on them or limit their opportunity. We just have to place them in situations and places where they can use their imagination and leadership skills.
It hides the larger issue of inequality in education…
Source: Focusing on the ‘Word Gap’ Is Harmful to Poor Students
(BOSTON) — America’s leading poets are averse to Donald Trump, and they’re not about to go gentle into that good night. Poetry slams and other literary events are being organized nationwide in the run-up to the President-elect’s Jan. 20 inauguration. Some, like this weekend’s “Writers Resist” rallies in New York, Boston and 90 other U.S.…
via America’s Poets Plan Readings to Protest Trump’s Inauguration — TIME
In April 1968, my sons went to Memphis to help organize a struggle by the city’s sanitation workers to achieve better wages and working conditions. I wondered about M.L.’s involvement in this, whether or not he was spreading his concerns and his energies too thin. But again he was right. There could be no real…
via What Martin Luther King Sr. Wrote About His Son’s Death — TIME
I buy because I need, not because I am in support of any party. Showing me that other shoppers are democratic or republican doesn’t mean much. One day someone can be a democrat and the next day have a change of heart and associate himself with neither party.
President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter this week to express his support for L.L.Bean, the clothing outfitter facing boycott threats over a Bean family member’s donations in support of Trump’s campaign. While few stores would object to an endorsement from a soon-to-be president, Trump’s call to “Buy L.L.Bean” may not fall on the right ears.…
via Sorry, Donald Trump. Hillary Clinton Won the L.L.Bean Vote — TIME
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