https://veronicagoodman.com/ The enhanced Child Tax Credit(CTC) was signed into law by President Joe Biden as part of the American Rescue Plan. While temporary to start, if successful, it may well be remembered as the most important part of that legislation. Some social scientists are comparing its potential impacts for children and middle and lower income …
https://robertglennon.net/books/ Our guest likes to use the straws metaphor to get across the point that all the users of the world’s most precious resource must accept that given population growth and climate change, one of the key solutions to a growing water crisis is to recognize that if your straw stays in the glass, some …
https://www.amazon.com/Leading-Distance-Practical-Lessons-Virtual/dp/1119782449 Your office for the duration of the pandemic was wherever you, your phone and computer were. And while some companies are calling everyone back into the office, many others have recognized the value and benefits of remote work. The work from home trend is now being factored into the culture of many companies as …
https://www.thewayoutofpolarization.com/ Our guest dedicates his book to ‘the 86 percent of Americans who are currently exhausted, miserable, and desperately seeking a way out of the culture of contempt’. I’d imagine many of you are among that legion, so why are we letting only 14 percent of our nation lead us into deadlock, dysfunction and national …
https://www.salford.ac.uk/our-staff/daiga-kamerade If you google ‘work too much’ you will find lots of references to the ill effects of an unbalanced life when you spend too much time on the job. These effects include harmful medical, mental and social consequences. A new study discussed in this podcast attributes 745,000 thousand deaths worldwide in 2016 to the …
https://www.amazon.com/Martin-Halliwell/e/B001HOF1XE%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Despite major advances in medical science and epidemiology over the last century, the United States has not significantly improved its ability to predict and handle public health emergencies. With our fractured system of local, state and federal responsibilities our historic approach to responding to health crises has been uneven. Its a continuing theme in …
https://www.stevenmintzethics.com/about-steve You hear the terms ‘cancel culture’ and ‘wokeism’ bandied about these days as if people even understand what they mean. If we’re honest our political divide, now of legendary proportions, results in each side not listening to the other. Yet the terms cancel and woke, derisive in tone, have been appropriated by the right …
https://www.gideonspromise.org/gideons-promise-book/ There is growing immediacy to issues surrounding criminal justice in America. The focus is often on police violence, mass incarceration, and inequities in how justice is meted out depending on the color of the skin of the perpetrator or the victim. Yet one element of this system that has gotten little attention is the …
https://oxbowadvisors.com/category/market-notes/ While the economy is showing signs of life as restrictions have been lifted on businesses and the pump has been primed by the federal government throughout the pandemic, there are concerning signs that inflation may eat away at some of the gains we are seeing. The question is whether this will be a short …
https://maddydychtwald.com/ The many generations that are growing old in today’s America are as different from one another as they are from the millennials and Gen X’ers. There is no way to look at the experiences of those in their 60’s and equate them to the fastest growing population in the country, those 85 plus. Yet, …