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A bright spot in a lackluster jobs report
feature State governments have been adding jobs for two straight months.
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Issue of the week: The true cost of the shutdown
feature Now we know: “Shutdowns aren’t cheap.”
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Issue of the week: Signs of a true recovery
feature Could the economy finally be back on track?
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Issue of the week: Is 2014 the recovery year?
feature Economic forecasters generally think 2014 will “be a breakout year” for the U.S. economy.
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Issue of the week: Why Google unloaded Motorola
feature Three years after shelling out $12.5 billion for Motorola, Google announced its sale to Lenovo Group for $2.9 billion.
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Stop calling women ‘bossy’
feature Let’s ban “She’s bossy.” Instead, let’s try, “She has executive leadership skills.”
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The half-life of software engineers
feature Young software engineers are setting themselves up for dead-end careers.
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The true meaning of ‘greed’
feature In its original meaning, greed is a vice that’s “bad for society” because it uses “coercion or deception to advance one’s well-being at the expense of another,” said Charles Kadlec in Forbes.com.
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The dark art of tax dodging
feature It shows how desperately we need corporate tax reform when “even a company like P&G practices the dark tax-avoiding arts,” said Allan Sloan at Fortune.
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The myth of American productivity
feature Government statistics reveal nothing about how a company improves productivity, and sadly, U.S. workers “often have little to do with the gains,” said Michael Mandel at the Washington Monthly.
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Issue of the week: Yahoo’s $1.1 billion Tumblr deal
feature Yahoo’s purchase of Tumblr is basically “a billion dollar bailout.”
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Wall Street discourages drug R&D
feature When Pfizer announced this year that it was slashing spending on research and development, its shares rose more than 5 percent, said Dan Primack at Fortune.
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Viewpoint: Kevin Drum
feature From MotherJones.com: “The Internet makes dumb people dumber and smart people smarter. If you don’t know how to use it...
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Issue of the week: Sexism in the tech industry
feature Silicon Valley's “persistent problem with women” surfaced when a female developer called out male colleagues for making sexual puns.
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