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☆ Opinion | Can Biden Revive the Fortunes of American Workers?
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Paul Krugman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Last week, employees at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., voted by almost three to one to join the United Automobile Workers. By the numbers, this wasn’t a big deal: It involved only a few thousand workers in an economy that employs almost 160 million people. You can quantify this arc using statistical measures like the Gini coefficient or the ratio of top to bottom incomes. The thing is, that relatively equal society didn’t evolve gradually. Wartime wage and price controls were an equalizing force, but the new equality persisted for decades after those controls were removed.

Persons: Claudia Goldin —, Robert Margo Organizations: Volkswagen, United Automobile Workers Locations: Chattanooga , Tenn, Chattanooga, America

☆ Live Updates: Yale Students Arrested as Campus Chaos Spreads
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-22 | by ( Alan Blinder | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +11 min

Some reportedly shouted at Jewish students and made antisemitic statements. Still, some Jewish students who are supporting the pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus said they felt solidarity, not a sense of danger, even as they denounced the acts of antisemitism. Image Grant Miner, a Jewish graduate student at Columbia University, says he doesn’t feel unsafe on campus. Jewish students get harassed trying to leave @Columbia’s campus tonight. Image At the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the Columbia campus, tents were crowded together Sunday night.

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☆ Lego is cashing in big time on its adult fan base, doubling its revenue in the last decade
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-14 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Lego is cashing in on adult fans buying high-priced Lego sets. The $850 Millennium Falcon set is part of how Lego doubled its revenue in a decade. Lego knows that and is cashing in on its base of adult fans willing to dish out hundreds of dollars on elaborate sets. "Nowadays it's not so geeky," Sian Twynham, another adult Lego builder, told the Journal. AdvertisementWhether it's nostalgia or strategic marketing, toy companies are seeing big returns when they rebrand kids products for adult audiences.

Persons: —, Jonny Edmondson, We've, Julia Goldin, Lego's, Sian Twynham, Greta Gerwig's, toymaker Mattel, execs Organizations: Service, Star, Wall Street, Warner Bros, Hasbro, Associated Press

“America's Team.”The team that much of America loved, and perhaps just as much loved to hate. The title these days has fallen on the Kansas City Chiefs, who play the San Francisco 49ers next weekend in their fourth Super Bowl in five years. Just like so many versions of “America's Team," though, a certain amount of fatigue also is setting in. They can make it four next Sunday, when they play the 49ers in a Super Bowl trending to be the most expensive ticket in history. We’ve got an even bigger target on our back than we did last year,” Chiefs safety Justin Reid said.

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☆ Lego is leaning into the $6.7 billion 'kidult' economy, through collabs with F1 and Pharrell, and by providing ideas for date night
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. "We are noticing a shift, but we are also driving it," Lego Chief Product and Marketing Officer Julia Goldin told Business Insider of the "kidult" trend. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Lego will be putting further efforts around its botanical range around key occasions in 2024, Goldin said. In October, Pharrell Williams biopic, "Piece by Piece," will be released to movie theaters, which will be told using Lego animation.

Persons: —, Julia Goldin, Goldin, Lego, McLaren, Ayrton Senna, Pharrell Williams, Lego Goldin Organizations: Service, Business, Lego, Petronas, BMW, Mercedes

CHICAGO (AP) — More than 200 reporters, photographers and other staffers with the Chicago Tribune and six other newsrooms around the nation began a 24-hour strike Thursday to protest years of “slow-walked” contract negotiations and to demand fair wages. The strike, which includes 76 members of the Chicago Tribune reporting staff, photographers and some editors, began at 5 a.m., said Caroline Kubzansky, a member of the Chicago Tribune Guild who is a general assignment reporter for the newspaper. The NewsGuild-CWA, which represents the employees, said the workers participating in the 24-hour strike are demanding fair wages and that management not eliminate their 401(k) match benefits. Photos You Should See View All 45 ImagesThe union said cuts imposed by Alden Global Capital have “gutted newsrooms” and included cutting the Chicago Tribune's staff from 111 to 76 people since June 2021. And in late 2023, more than 200 workers at The Washington Post, owned by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, accepted buyouts.

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☆ My husband was willing to sacrifice his career to be a stay-at-home parent, but I wasn't. Here are the best and worst parts of our arrangement.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-12 | by ( Robin Madell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Andrea Mac is a growth strategist, and her husband has been a stay-at-home dad for seven years. She says one of the worst parts of the arrangement is the tug-of-war between her kids and job. I have four children, ages 19, 14, 7, and 5 — and while I'm the family's breadwinner, my husband has been a stay-at-home dad for the last seven years. That said, being a breadwinner in my marriage while my husband is a stay-at-home dad has pros and cons. These are the five hardest, worst, and most triggering things about being a breadwinner with a stay-at-home husband.

Persons: Andrea Mac, Mac, —, He's, she's, I'm, it's, Claudia Goldin's Pulitzer, haven't Organizations: Service Locations: Greater Chicago

☆ The forever labor shortage is pitting parents and their childfree coworkers against each other
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Childfree workers told Business Insider they often feel pressured to cover for parents at work. Benson's not alone in experiencing the tension of splitting work between childfree workers and those with kids. For childfree workers, it may lead to resentment, or feeling like their time isn't as valuable. And that might, in turn, lead to childfree workers being asked to take on more. But the childfree workers, parents, and experts that Business Insider spoke with say that making it a worker-to-worker dispute takes the onus off of companies and policy.

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☆ How Nobel economists spend their $1 million winnings
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Every year, researchers in economics are awarded the Nobel Prize, alongside a hefty sum in winnings. All you have to do is bag a Nobel Prize. Franco Modigliani, an MIT professor who nabbed the Nobel in economics in 1985 , got about $225,000 in winnings. But, ultimately, he wanted to spend his winnings according to his own research on people's saving and spending habits. So when he was asked how he'd spend what was, in 2017 dollars, around $1.1 million in winnings, Thaler told reporters : "I will try to spend it as irrationally as possible."

Persons: —, Alfred Nobel, Claudia Goldin, it's, Goldin, Lars Heikenstein, Franco Modigliani, Modigliani, I'm, Modigliani isn't, Elinor Ostrom, Oliver E, Williamson, Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee, Michael Kremer, Sir Angus Deaton, Richard Thaler, he'd, Thaler Organizations: Service, Sveriges, Economic Sciences, Guardian, Nobel Foundation, MIT, Washington Post, Indiana University, National Academy of Sciences, Fund for Research, Development, Harvard University, Boston Globe, University of Chicago Locations: Stockholm, United States of America

☆ No. 10 FAU puts up 100 in rout of Eastern Michigan
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Field Level Media | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/46] Nov 14, 2023; Boca Raton, Florida, USA; A detailed view of the Final Four Banner at Eleanor R. Baldwin Arena prior to a game between the Florida Atlantic Owls and the Eastern Michigan. Mandatory Credit: Rich Storry-USA TODAY Sports Acquire Licensing RightsNovember 15 - Vladislav Goldin scored 19 points and grabbed five rebounds to lead No. 10 Florida Atlantic to a 100-57 win over Eastern Michigan on Tuesday in Boca Raton, Fla.Goldin made 9 of 12 shots from the field in just 20 minutes of action. Tyson Acuff scored 20 points and Legend Geeter had 13 points and five rebounds in defeat for Eastern Michigan (1-2). Florida Atlantic took control of the game early, going on a 18-3 run over a span of 4:08 to take a 20-5 lead.

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☆ Is Remote Work the Answer to Women’s Prayers, or a New ‘Mommy Track’?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( Sarah Kessler | More About Sarah Kessler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

And when work and caregiving conflict, women are more likely to take a step back. Most post-pandemic debate around remote work has focused on whether it’s here to stay. Some version of it seems likely: About 70 percent of workers who can do their jobs off-site still work remotely either all or some days. But if old attitudes about more flexible work resurge — outspoken executives have recently described it as “lazy,” not for leaders and a perk for those who don’t “work as hard”— then it may not matter if hybrid options are widespread. This is especially true for highly skilled jobs, because women hold the majority of college degrees.

Persons: Claudia Goldin —, —, Williams, ”, Betsey Stevenson Organizations: Board, University of Michigan

☆ United Auto Workers Strike a Blow for Equality - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Paul Krugman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Some history you should know: Baby boomers like me grew up in a nation that was far less polarized economically than the one we live in today. For example, chief executives of major corporations were paid “only” 15 times as much as their average workers, compared with more than 200 times as much as their average workers now. But income gaps remained narrow for decades after these controls were lifted; overall income inequality didn’t really take off again until around 1980. Unions are a force for greater wage equality; they also help enforce the “outrage constraint” that used to limit executive compensation. Conversely, the decline of unions, which now represent less than 7 percent of private-sector workers, must have played a role in the coming of the Second Gilded Age we live in now.

Persons: Claudia Goldin, Robert Margo Organizations: Unions Locations: America

The Gaza Strip itself is only some 360 square kilometers (140 square miles), roughly twice the size of Washington, D.C.“They started saying that they destroyed 100 kilometers (62 miles) of Hamas tunnels. I am telling you that the tunnels we have in the Gaza Strip exceed 500 kilometers,” Sinwar said following a bloody 11-day war with Israel. But fully dislodging Hamas will require clearing those tunnels, where militants can pop up behind advancing Israeli troops. During a 2014 war, Hamas militants killed at least 11 Israeli soldiers after infiltrating into Israel through tunnels. AN ADDITIONAL LAYER OF COMPLEXITYYet in all those cases, advancing militaries did not face the challenge that Israel does now with Hamas’ tunnel system.

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Here are the meanings of the 10 hardest words that have also been used in Times articles. — A Taiwan Museum Featuring All of Asia (Oct. 6, 2016)5. tactual — related to touch:“This is something you can learn so quickly,” she said. “You may not become an Olympic rider that fast, but it is a skill you can gain competence in so quickly as opposed to other sports. It’s amazing in terms of the tactual sense. — As Dead Dolphins Wash Ashore, Ukraine Builds a Case of Ecocide Against Russia (Aug. 17, 2023)The list of the week’s easiest words:

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Research shows women in richer economies are more likely to have children if they work. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni - Italy's first female premier - has said women are "an untapped resource" that lessens the need for immigrant labour. Yet her conservative government's 2024 budget, to be presented on Monday, is not expected to include measures to drive change. According to a government report relating to 2021, nearly one in five Italian women aged under 50 left their job after having their first child. SPANISH SUCCESSMeloni's government could learn from Spain, whose female activity rate lagged Italy's in the early 1990s but is now above the EU average.

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☆ Nobel Prize-winning Harvard economist Claudia Goldin: The gender pay gap will 'never' close unless this happens
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Claudia Goldin, a Harvard University professor, has spent nearly her entire career investigating what drives the persistent gender gap in the labor market, and how to narrow it. Through her ongoing research, Goldin, 77, has provided the first comprehensive account of American women's earnings and job market outcomes through the centuries, the Nobel committee said in the prize announcement. "We are never going to have gender equality, or narrow the pay gap, until we have couple's equity," Goldin tells CNBC Make It. True equity for dual-career couples remains "frustratingly out of reach," Goldin adds, because of "greedy jobs" and parenting norms. Increasing government funding of child care and the number of high-paying jobs in which people can share duties, rather than burn out, can help narrow the gender pay gap, says Goldin.

Persons: Claudia Goldin, Goldin, she's, it's Organizations: Harvard University, University of Chicago, CNBC

STOCKHOLM, Oct 9 (Reuters) - American economic historian Claudia Goldin won the 2023 Nobel economics prize for her work examining wage inequality between men and women, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday. "This year's Laureate in the Economic Sciences, Claudia Goldin, provided the first comprehensive account of women's earnings and labour market participation through the centuries," the prize-giving body said in a statement. Goldin, who in 1990 became the first woman to be tenured at the Harvard economics department, is only the third woman to win the Nobel economics prize. "Claudia Goldin's discoveries have vast societal implications," said Randi Hjalmarsson, member of the Economic Prize committee. As with the other Nobel prizes, the vast majority of the economics awards have gone to men.

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☆ Nobel Prize in Economics Awarded to Harvard’s Claudia Goldin for Work on Gender Gaps
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Paul Hannon | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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London CNN —Claudia Goldin, a professor at Harvard University, was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics Monday for her research into women’s income and employment. Jakob Svensson, chair of the committee for the prize in economic sciences, added: “Understanding women’s role in the labor market is important for society. Thanks to Claudia Goldin’s groundbreaking research we now know much more about the underlying factors and which barriers may need to be addressed in the future.”Claudia Goldin Harvard UniversityGoldin was born in 1946 in New York. She is the author of several books and is best-known for her work on the history of women in the US economy. The economics prize is officially known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

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☆ Nobel economics prize awarded to U.S. economist Claudia Goldin for work on women in the labor market
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Hannah Ward-Glenton | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

The winner of the 2023 Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel American economist Claudia Goldin is seen on a display at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm on October 9, 2023. The Nobel economics prize was on Monday awarded to Professor Claudia Goldin of Harvard University for her research on women in the labor market. Goldin provided the first comprehensive account of women's earnings and labor market outcomes through the centuries, the Nobel committee said in the prize announcement while announcing the prize. Her research reveals new patterns, identifies causes of change but also speaks to the main sources of the remaining gender gaps. The winners of the award, which is officially titled the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, receive 10 million Swedish krona ($907,000) between them.

Persons: Alfred Nobel, Claudia Goldin, Goldin Organizations: Economic Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Harvard University, Sveriges Locations: Stockholm

☆ A woman's chance for equal pay plummets when she has a kid — and never recovers, says the newest Harvard economist to win the Nobel Prize
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Harvard professor Claudia Goldin just won the Nobel Prize in economics, the third woman to do so. Goldin has been studying women's labor and the gender wage gap for decades. We know this thanks to decades of research by Claudia Goldin, who just won the Nobel Prize in economics. Mothers can make up ground relative to non-mothers, Kerr said, but "the gender gap is just way too large between parents." AdvertisementAdvertisement"There are lots of people doing such research now, and I think that this means that they'll see that it is important and that it's recognized," Goldin said.

Persons: Claudia Goldin, Goldin, —, Lawrence Katz, Marianne Bertrand, Z, that's, they're, Sari Pekkala Kerr, Claudia Olivetti, Kerr, she's, it's, " Goldin Organizations: Service, Pew Research, Wellesley College Locations: Harvard

☆ As Dead Dolphins Wash Ashore, Ukraine Builds a Case of Ecocide Against Russia
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Marc Santora | More About Marc Santora | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The victim was found along a stretch of beach near the port city of Odesa in southern Ukraine early this summer, cause of death unknown. They are washing up dead in droves on the shores of the Black Sea. “Dolphins are not only cute creatures,” Pawel Goldin, 44, a doctor in zoology who specializes in marine mammal populations at the Ukrainian Scientific Center of Ecology of the Sea, said before the necropsy. “They are keystone creatures for the marine ecosystem. If dolphins are in a bad condition, then the entire ecosystem will be in a bad condition.”

Persons: ” Pawel Goldin Organizations: “ Dolphins, Ukrainian Scientific Center of Locations: Odesa, Ukraine

☆ The metaverse explained, and how it could impact our everyday lives in the future
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Will Wei | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

By now, you've probably heard of the "metaverse." But despite all the hype, the metaverse might still be a little confusing. So, what is the metaverse? And what type of impact could it have on our everyday lives? Insider spoke with Journey founder Cathy Hackl and Lego Group CMO Julia Goldin for their insights on the metaverse.

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☆ Jelly Roll’s ‘Save Me’ and the Music of Addiction and Recovery - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Crispin Sartwell | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

In a country riddled with crises — the opioid epidemic, mass incarceration, the mental health crisis and gun violence among them — Jelly Roll’s music is an expression not just of musical tastes, but also of a desperate national hunger for healing and recovery. Disclosure: Jelly Roll’s music makes me cry, too. I lost a brother and two stepbrothers to addiction and mental illness: Bob was killed in a drug-motivated shooting in 1984. These are the sorts of experiences that Jelly Roll is bringing to the charts: very common devastating experiences of betrayal and survivor’s guilt and despair that, despite their prevalence, are not usually made public. And as the ABC News Studios documentary “Jelly Roll: Save Me” makes clear, he is still struggling.

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☆ Opinion | Barbara Kingsolver Thinks Urban Liberals Have It All Wrong on Appalachia
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( The Ezra Klein Show | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +58 min

It’s like there’s no point in asking who started this because it’s a really, really old antagonism. I think that’s probably what’s most critical right now is that all of our entertainment, our news media, it’s all made in cities. And he’s really pretty horrible, and he doesn’t feed them enough, and that’s really sad. You’re going to have a flat tire, and the guy that pulls up to help you is going to tell your dad within minutes. It’s not like most books you’re going to see.

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