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This week's news on the work-life conflict, care, the care crisis, the care economy and human well-being.

Friday, April 13, 2012

 

ARTICLES

The Biggest Gender Gap Ever

From: Salon.com

By: Steve Kornacki

"An ABC News/Washington Postreleased this morning offers the most dramatic and definitive evidence yet that the gender gap really is exploding. If the election were limited to male voters, Mitt Romney would actually be comfortably ahead of President Obama, 52 to 44 percent. But among women, Romney has fallen 19 points behind Obama, 57 to 38 percent, resulting in an overall 7-point deficit for the presumptive Republican nominee."

http://www.salon.com/2012/04/10/the_biggest_gender_gap_ever/

 

Wisconsin State Senator Says Women Are Paid Less Because 'Money Is More Important For Men'

From: Think Progress

By: Travis Waldron

"Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) quietly repealed his state's equal pay law last week, a decision that will make it harder for victims of wage discrimination to sue for lost earnings and back wages. The law was enacted primarily to address the massive pay gap that exists between male and female workers, which is even bigger in Wisconsin than in other states."

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/04/09/460917/wisconsin-state-senator-money-less-important-wome/?mobile=nc

 

If Obamacare Is Struck Down, These Americans Are in Trouble

From: Mother Jones

By: Adam Serwer

"Millions could be hurt if the Supreme Court scraps health care reform. Here are their stories."

http://motherjones.com/politics/2012/04/obamacare-scotus-victims

 

RADIO

The Buffett Rule, Tax Fairness and the 2012 Presidential Race

From: The Diane Rehm Show

By: Susan Page

"President Obama is pushing the so-called Buffett Rule requiring millionaires to pay a tax rate of at least 30 percent. Guest host Susan Page and a panel of experts look at the economic and political implications of tax fairness."

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2012-04-12/buffett-rule-tax-fairness-and-2012-presidential-race

 

U.S. Economic Outlook

From: The Diane Rehm Show

By: Diane Rehm

"In a speech last night in Georgia, Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke cautioned that the U.S. economy is still far from having fully recovered from the darkest days of the financial crisis. Three and a half years since the financial crisis nearly 13 million Americans are looking for work. Although the unemployment rate dipped a bit for the month of March, the U.S. also added fewer new jobs than analysts had expected. Please join us to talk about jobs and the outlook for the U.S. economy."

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2012-04-10/us-economic-outlook

 

Federal Job Retraining Programs are Running Out of Money

From: Marketplace

By: Kai Ryssdal
"
When unemployment was less than 5 percent in the U.S. -- remember those days? -- the government was spending 18 percent on job re-training. What gives? The New York Times' Motoko Rich says that the current fiscal constraints prevent more funding to jobs programs, but the budgets of those programs were scaled down long before the recession started. The training programs did get a boost from stimulus funds, but those have long run dry."

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/economy/federal-job-retraining-programs-are-running-out-money

 

BLOGS

The Incredible Shrinking Payroll

From: Economix, a blog from The New York Times

By: Catherine Rampell

"The key to sustained job growth may be helping more start-ups get off the ground."

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/10/the-incredible-shrinking-payroll/

 

The Profits of Virtue

From: Economix, a blog from The New York Times

By: Nancy Folbre

"Corporate social responsibility has entered the lexicon of mainstream economics. Some thought this shouldn't be, others that it simply couldn't happen. Milton Friedman famously asserted that corporations' only responsibility was to maximize profits. Many of his critics insisted that they were incapable of doing anything but that."

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/the-profits-of-virtue/

 

Income and Living Standards

From: Economix, a blog from The New York Times

By: Casey Mulligan

"It has proved much harder to measure consumer consumption precisely than to measure income, but three researchers have found one way to take a close look, an economist writes."

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/11/income-and-living-standards/?ref=business

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