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☆ Wesleyan University Ends Legacy Admissions
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Vimal Patel | More About Vimal Patel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Why It Matters: Opposition to legacy admissions has grown. After the Supreme Court decision, legacy admissions came under heavy attack because the practice tends to favor white, wealthy applicants over Black, Hispanic, Asian American and Native American students. Polls also show that the public does not support legacy admissions. Some highly selective universities and colleges have dropped legacy admissions, including Amherst, Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon and M.I.T. The future of legacy admissions on campuses is uncertain.

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☆ I Love You, Let’s Stalk Each Other
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Jessica Roy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

When the coronavirus pandemic forced Americans to turn to the internet for entertainment, home delivery and more, awareness of the way companies and governments use the personal data we publish online also increased. Ms. McKinney said that she had a few friends who don’t feel comfortable sharing their locations, but that she wasn’t a stickler for reciprocity. “Some of my buddies are private and don’t want me to see their location, but that’s fine: They must see my location anyway,” she said. It’s true that there is perhaps nothing more intimate than having live location sharing on — the level of trust you have to have in someone to willingly disclose just how much time you spend sitting in your apartment watching TV! But location sharing can also provide a feeling of closeness even when you’re far away.

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☆ The AI boom is screwing over Gen Z
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Ed Zitron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Now, with the advent of generative AI, organizations are starting to automate many "junior" tasks — stripping away their dubious last attempt to "teach" young employees. America's young workers are headed toward a career calamity. Nobody wants to teach anymoreEven before the rise of AI, young people were facing an early-career crisis. This lack of care is clearly weighing on the young workers who need career development the most. Humans can be enhanced by AI, helped by AI, but replacing them with AI is a shortsighted decision made by myopic bean counters who can't see the value in a person.

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☆ The economy feels worse than it actually is because people were spoiled by the snap-back recovery after the pandemic crash
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | Madison Hoff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Americans feel bad about the economy, even though data shows a booming labor market. The recovery from the pandemic recession reset everyone's expectations about what a good economy looks like. Americans are feeling bad about the economy, and some of that is likely due to inflation eating at their budgets. Consumer confidence is still low, and, as JPMorgan Asset Management chief global strategist David Kelly writes, Americans feel an "unreasonable level of gloom." In short, the things that used to make Americans feel good or bad about the economy aren't as consequential anymore.

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☆ Supreme Court ends affirmative action in college admissions
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that affirmative action in college admissions was unconstitutional. Earlier Supreme Court cases have upheld affirmative action — the practice of giving additional weight to applicants who belong to groups that have historically been the subject of discrimination — for four decades. Ever since former President Donald Trump cemented a 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court, legal experts have expected the Supreme Court to do away with affirmative action altogether. Students for Fair Admissions brought two lawsuits that ended up before the Supreme Court last fall, against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, alleging they discriminated against white and Asian-American students. Every US college and university the justices attended, save one, urged the court to preserve race-conscious admissions.

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☆ Jimmy Carter's legacy: How he welcomed refugees
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Catherine E. Shoichet | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

These steps Carter took during his presidency are still shaping the United States, decades after he left office. Because of Carter’s actions, hundreds of thousands of people fleeing persecution had a chance to come to the United States when he was commander-in-chief. A crisis that began before Carter took office was becoming increasingly dire by the day. That respect, Nguyen says, was earned by actions that Carter took that changed the course of her parents’ lives. “They were only able to do so because of the political courage exercised by President Carter,” she says.

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☆ Moms and worried and stressed. Here are 4 strategies they can use to juggle family, work, and everything else.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-14 | by ( Rebecca Knight | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Surveys show that American moms are stressed, burned out, and anxious about their children. Experts have said there are concrete steps working and non-working moms can take to ease the burden. Some surveys have shown that American moms are stressed, burned out, and anxious about their children. The effects have particularly destructive consequences for working moms, she told Insider. In household-management terms, this means assessing family needs, identifying solutions to meet those needs, and implementing strategies.

☆ Threat of TikTok ban has creators scrambling to build followings on Instagram, YouTube
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Ashley Capoot | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Politicians have been threatening a nationwide TikTok ban unless ByteDance sells its stake in the app, a move China said it "strongly" opposed. "That's the power of TikTok," Spangler said, adding that the app drives the majority of sales for his business, The Good Chad. Olivier Douliery | Afp | Getty ImagesIn April, Montana legislators approved a bill that would ban TikTok from being offered in the state starting next year. Creators are turning to other platformsVivian Tu, who lives in Miami, has been preparing for a possible TikTok ban by working to build her audience and diversify her content across multiple platforms. With the looming threat of a TikTok ban, Foster said she's been sharing content across Instagram, YouTube and Twitter to try to expand her following.

☆ Americans Wary of Big Brother AI Watching in the Workplace
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Richard Vanderford | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

U.S. respondents to a Pew Research Center survey said they were largely opposed to using artificial intelligence to monitor them at work. Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg NewsAmericans are largely leery of artificial intelligence peering over their shoulder at the workplace to watch for bad behavior, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center, though only a fraction think AI will have a major impact on them personally. AI has been used for years in technologies that can monitor what employees do at work, including surveillance systems that can try to see if retail employees are stealing, software that scrutinizes truck drivers for bad behavior, and plug-ins for email and chat applications that can flag foul language or fraud in offices.

☆ More money will certainly mean more problems in your relationships, financial experts say—especially a marriage
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Aditi Shrikant | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

It's obvious how financial instability can negatively affect relationships – less money means more compromising. Coming into a "life-changing" amount of money can be disorienting, says Susan Bradley, a certified financial planner and the founder of Sudden Money Institute. In opposite-sex marriages, which partner makes more money can also be a source of stress, especially if it's the woman. Well, how many times do you do that before they start to feel weird and you start to feel weird?" Decisions like this can cause stress — stress you wouldn't have if that house was never an option in the first place.

☆ Women are now out-earning or making the same as their husbands in nearly half of marriages
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

In almost half of opposite-sex marriages in the U.S., women are now earning the same as their husbands — or out-earning them, by an average of $53,000. Spouses are earning the same income in nearly one-third, or 29%, of opposite-sex marriages, a significant jump from just 11% in 1972. In egalitarian marriages, men and women's earnings are almost identical: In 2022, the median earnings for wives in such marriages was $60,000, while husbands earned $62,000. About 16% of opposite-sex marriages in the U.S. have a breadwinner wife, up from 5% five decades earlier, Pew reports. Women continue to bear the brunt of household responsibilities, even as financial contributions have become more equal in opposite-sex marriages.

☆ Wrong-place, wrong-time shootings: What's going on?
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

► Outside Austin, Texas, on April 18, two cheerleaders were shot in a grocery store parking lot just after midnight. Yarl and Andrew Lester, the 84-year-old homeowner accused of opening fire, both told police that Lester almost immediately shot Yarl upon opening his front door. What we know about why Lester shot Yarl is what he has told police. ‘Everything to do with race’Lucas doesn’t buy that, noting that Lester said Yarl was six feet tall, when he’s actually 5’8”. That’s another thing that appears to tie these recent shootings together – loaded guns at the ready.

☆ More women are out-earning their husbands, but still picking up a heavier load at home
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Jessica Dickler | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

watch nowMore women are becoming breadwinners, but the division of labor at home has barely budged, a new report found. Women are achieving increasing levels of education, making them more likely to out-earn their husbands, according to Richard Fry, a senior researcher at Pew. But as women's financial contributions increase, they still pick up a heavier load when it comes to household chores and caregiving responsibilities, the report also found. Age, race and family size also play a role, the Pew report found, with Black women more likely to be the breadwinners, as well as older women and women without children. In marriages where husbands and wives earn about the same, women spend roughly 2 hours more a week on caregiving and about 2½ hours more on housework, according to the Pew data.

☆ What Are People Even Doing All Day?
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Malia Wollan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +12 min

For Laroi, there is no clearly defined day or night. Sometimes he drives all night and sleeps all day; sometimes he sleeps all day and drives all night. One day a week, Sophie works late so she can meet with far-flung colleagues in real time. Now she has enough energy left at the end of the day to go grocery shopping and cook dinner. The time markers reflect the time of day when participants told an interviewer they would normally be doing the activity shown.

☆ Gary Vaynerchuk to managers: Forget a 4-day workweek. If you want to make your people happy, fire the jerks.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Jason Lalljee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Gary Vaynerchuk said companies should fire the "assholes" creating "toxic" work environments. He has also said recently that companies need to appeal to Gen Z better, given their many work options. In TikToks posted this week, Vaynerchuk railed against "toxic work environments," slamming companies for retaining employees and management that compromise the "joy" of their staff members. "Joy doesn't come from four-hour workweeks," Vaynerchuk said in one video, seeming to reference the current movement for a four-day workweek. And Vaynerchuk is betting that people also want to be treated right while on the clock.

☆ Half of Americans support a US ban on TikTok, but many are unsure, Pew survey says
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Washington CNN —Half of Americans support a US government ban on TikTok, while 22% oppose the idea and more than a quarter are unsure, according to a Pew Research Center survey released Friday. But it also underscores that significant portions of the country, 28% of Americans, remain uncertain about a ban on TikTok, suggesting they do not have firm views on the matter. Some 19% of TikTok users did express support for a US government ban, however. The survey found, however, that most Americans — nearly two-thirds (64%) — are aware of TikTok’s China connection. There is a partisan gap as well, with 60% of Republicans or those who lean Republican in favor of banning TikTok, Pew found, compared to 43% of Democrats or those who lean Democratic.

☆ Don't lose your life savings on your phone: A millennial with a sports-betting addiction explains how he's cut back as March Madness hype mounts
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-18 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

James said sports betting was a way to "lose your life savings on your phone." But sometimes gambling addiction gets you to do crazy things." While the highs were "exhilarating," James said, gambling began to take over his life. After downloading a sports-betting app, he began by betting roughly $50 to $100 at a time on anything from baseball to hockey to tennis. But then he started winning — at one point winning roughly 14 of 16 bets — which he said was the "worst thing" that could have happened to him.

☆ The pay gap has stalled and parenthood is a big reason why
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Madison Hoff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Caregiving and parenthood could be contributing to the gap in earnings between men and women. It provides a striking way of thinking about the gender pay gap. Pew Research Center also looked at how the pay gap has evolved over time and found that it has stalled. For instance, a research paper from Patricia Cortés and Jessica Pan found that "by the 2010s, child-related inequality accounted for nearly two-thirds of the overall gender pay gap in the U.S." Additionally, according to a fact sheet from NWLC, there's a pay gap between mothers and fathers. A Pew Research Center survey asked US adults why they think the pay gap persists.

☆ I've lived with my husband for 5 years—he does all the cleaning. Here's how we split chores to avoid fighting
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( Alexandra Hayes Robinson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

On Sundays, he asks me to leave the house so that he can commence on what he calls "Deep Clean Day." A majority of women (59%) say they do more chores than their partner, while 6% say their partner does more, according to a Pew Research Center survey. But in the five years that we've lived together, Brian has always preferred to do the cleaning. How we split household choresWe came up with our division of chores together by asking four questions: What do we each enjoy doing? And it doesn't need to, because we assign ourselves to the tasks that we can stand, and avoid the ones that we dread.

☆ Gen Z's New Relationship Trend: Ditching Online Apps, Dating Friends
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Daniel Cox | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

But that's changing: Today's young adults, especially young women, are increasingly finding romance in their friend groups. In interviews conducted for our survey, young people told us that they found online dating too transactional. Trust is at even more of a premium when it comes to dating online. In a Pew survey conducted last year, 52% of Americans reported encountering what they believed to be a scammer on an online dating platform. In dating, especially online dating, women are bombarded with negative attention, harassment, or worse.

☆ TikTok's potential ban in U.S. could be boon for Meta and Snap
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( Ashley Capoot | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesInvestors in Meta , Snap and other U.S. digital media companies have been looking for signs of a rebound after a tumultuous 2022. Meta climbed 1% on Wednesday, and Snap was unchanged. She said that Meta's Facebook, Snap and Google's YouTube could be "huge beneficiaries" if the ban ultimately takes place. watch now"A U.S. ban on TikTok is a ban on the export of American culture and values to the billion-plus people who use our service worldwide," a TikTok spokesperson said Wednesday. Andrew Boone, an analyst at JMP, said that Meta likely stands to benefit the most should TikTok face a U.S. ban.

☆ 'Quiet quitting is the natural sequel to the Great Resignation' as workers still rethink their jobs 3 years into the pandemic
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-21 | by ( Madison Hoff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

"I think that in some ways quiet quitting is the natural sequel to the Great Resignation," professor Adam Grant said. But so has been the Great Resignation, which has seen a massive number of workers actually leaving their jobs. James Detert, a professor of business administration at the University of Virginia, detailed in a post on The Conversation how the Great Resignation, quiet quitting, and unionization efforts at big companies are actually similar. As noted during the panel and seen in previous coverage from Insider, "quiet quitting" isn't actually a new thing. The Great Resignation, and thus its "sequel" of quiet quitting, may continue in 2023 and be sticking around.

A Culture in theCross Hairs Russia’s invasion has systematically destroyed Ukrainian cultural sites. It has also dealt a grievous blow to Ukrainian culture: to its museums and monuments, its grand universities and rural libraries, its historic churches and contemporary mosaics. This is how empires always work.” The war in Ukraine is a culture war, and the extent of the destruction is becoming clearer. Kyiv Sviatohirsk UKRAINE Damaged or destroyed religious sites Areas controlled by Russia at any time since invasion. Kyiv Sviatohirsk UKRAINE Damaged or destroyed religious sites Areas controlled by Russia at any time since invasion.

☆ Teens say social media is more positive than you think. Here's why
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Madeline Holcombe | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Teens are entering the chat around social media. The youths were asked about their thoughts, feelings and use of social media. One theme of the survey’s results: Teens see their experience on social media as more positive than adults imagine it to be. And if encouraged the right way, Icard has seen social media as a good way to showcase talents and humor. And 60% of all teens report feeling little to no control over the data social media companies collect from them.

☆ TikTok Hires Former NBA CMO as Its New Marketing Chief
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-08 | by ( Katie Deighton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +3 min

ByteDance Inc.’s TikTok named the National Basketball Association’s former top marketer, Kate Jhaveri, as its global head of marketing as the video-sharing platform aims to continue its growth. Ms. Jhaveri will oversee the social-media platform’s consumer and brand marketing, reporting to Vanessa Pappas, TikTok’s chief operating officer, the spokeswoman said. Ms. Jhaveri also will head up TikTok’s marketing to content creators on the platform, and will work closely with Sofia Hernandez, TikTok’s global head of business marketing. Newsletter Sign-up WSJ | CMO Today CMO Today delivers the most important news of the day for media and marketing professionals. Ms. Jhaveri had been chief marketing officer of the NBA from 2019 until August this year.

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