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Study of the Day: Political Disagreement and Income Inequality Are Friends
We finally discovered why Republicans and Democrats hate each other. It’s because the rent actually is too damn high. In 2006, a group of researchers, led by Princeton professor Nolan McCarty, found a...
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Is There an Ideal Age to Become a Father?
Hamilton Cain analyzes salaries and fertility rates to figure out the best time to start a family. There was a time—at the dawn of the decade, before our children—when my wife and I walked upright...
View ArticleWho Cares About Men’s Rights?
Trigger warning for mentions of suicide, domestic abuse, and rape. I do. I care about every boy that was ever called a fag or a pussy or a sissy for being emotional, or sensitive, or unathletic, or...
View ArticleThe Great Glass Escalator
(Much of the material for this post comes from David J. Maume Jr.’s 1999 work “Glass Ceilings and Glass Escalators,” because that’s the one in my Work Organization textbook. More recent citations...
View ArticleStop Coddling Billionaires! (says Warren Buffett)
Warren Buffett has a solution to our deficit problem, and perhaps even our economic downturn: make the tax code fair for every one, even the super rich. In an OpEd today in the NYT he points out how...
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The Keys To Stay At Home Dad Success
There are a ton of good reasons to be a stay at home parent. Here’s how to do it well. I would love to do this, if I could afford it. Everyone everywhere agrees that stay-at-home parenting (SAHP) is...
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A Guy Named Ray: When Does Income Become Obscene?
Tom Matlack makes the case for an upper limit on income. Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates made $3.9 billion last year. He was one of three hedge fund managers who made a billion in 2011. I guess...
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Strange Freedom
In quitting a job, Rick Belden finds a strange new sensation: freedom. Three days ago, I left a long-time job that had begun to damage my health and was already well on its way to destroying my spirit....
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Does ‘Daddy Leave’ Lead to Gender Equality?
Norway’s parental leave policies, though popular, have unintended and adverse effects on families. A version of this article was previously published on The Huffington Post. In Norway 97% of fathers...
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What’s a Man To Do? New Work for 2012 and Beyond
Find the new good life. From Chapter 12 of MenAlive: Stop Killer Stress with Simple Energy Healing Tools Finding New Work In a World Turned Upside Down Most of us wait until there is a crisis before...
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Win Gold at the Olympics and Pay Taxes Like Everyone Else
The group, Americans for Tax Reform has released numbers that appear to show how United States Olympians have to pay an extra $9,000 if they win a gold medal. These numbers are being made into cute...
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Writing Outside the (Idiot) Box
Dream of churning out laughs for the Hollywood machine? Do it from home, counsels Greg White, who finds freedom writing for anything but TV. A writer writes. If your desire is to find an audience,...
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Beats the Alternative
What makes it so hard to be old? Getting old can be tough. Sure, there are a lot of perks as well, provided you’ve saved enough for retirement, but uncertainties remain. The body starts to break down,...
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Show Me the Money
Andy Bodle believes he’s uncovered the real cause of the gender pay gap. Amanda and I had been dating for three months, and things were, I thought, going pretty well. The conversation and the...
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Do You Really Believe CEOs Work 380 Times Harder Than Their Average Worker?...
As it turns out, there’s a huge difference between our perception of the wealth inequality in America and reality. This is freaky! According to the video, 5,000 Americans were asked how they think...
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Healthy Attachments to Money
We all need money to survive in this society. If there is a healthy relationship to money, what does that look like? — In a sense, having money truly does make the world go round. There are numerous...
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She Dumped Me Because I Didn’t Make as Much Money as Her
A poem to the woman who left me because of the size of my wallet. — “American women as a whole have never been confronted with such a radically shrinking pool of what are traditionally considered to...
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Debt, Survival and Hope
The European recession is causing the male suicide rate to skyrocket. Jillian Godsil tells her own story of bankruptcy and, ultimately, hope. — I have seen here the battles people are going through...
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To Pay or Not to Pay: The College Dilemma
Tweet With college tuition skyrocketing, should parents have to pay for their children’s college education? Brandy Pettigrew explores the balance for between paying for her sons’ college and pride in...
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Homework From a Homeless Man
I’d been teaching all day, but when I met Walt I realized I had quite a bit to learn. ________ “Excuse me, sir.” God, what now? I’ve been teaching all day. I’m tired. Not really in the mood to talk to...
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