Prime Minister Holds Forum Friday to Discuss Working Women and Gender-Based Targets
TOKYO— Yumi Suzuki is an anomaly in Japan’s male-dominated world of construction. She was one of six women studying architecture in the ’70s in college, among a class of 100 male students. Superstition about the jealous goddess of the mountains prohibited women from entering tunnels during construction. Her employer,Taisei Corp. 1801.TO -0.34% , kept its female employees in assistive positions when she began working there in 1981.
Federal, State Governments Push Apprentice Programs, but Find Few Domestic Takers
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.—The Obama administration and governors from Michigan to North Carolina have a solution for some of the U.S. manufacturing sector’s woes: German-style apprenticeship programs.
Please check out the syllabus for classes you registered!!
The instant noodles commonly known as ramen — a staple food for college kids and other young adults, as well as people in certain cultures — may increase people’s risk of metabolic changes linked to heart disease and stroke, new research finds.
Source: Yahoo News
By Swint Friday
by Rexford Sheild, Athletic Business Intern
As our country’s obesity problem has gained more attention in recent years, many have looked to identify the root of the problem. A recent 20-year study conducted by Stanford University revealed that obesity is not due primarily to over-eating but rather a decline in exercise, which leads to increases in average body mass index (BMI). Categories examined by lead author Uri Ladabaum and his colleagues include: obesity, waistline obesity, physical activity and calorie intake.
June 21, 2014
Source: The Daily Signal
Economists are scratching their heads trying to figure out a puzzle in this recovery: Why are young people not working? People retiring at age 60 or even 55 in a weak economy is easy to understand. But at 25?
The percentage of adult Americans who are working or looking for work now stands at 62.8%, a 36-year low and down more than 3 percentage points since late 2007, according to the Labor Department’s May employment report.
This is fairly well-known. What isn’t so well-known is that a major reason for the decline is that fewer and fewer young people are holding jobs. This exit from the workforce by the young is counter to the conventional wisdom or the Obama administration’s official line.
By Steve Matthews and Victoria Stilwell
May 12, 2014 9:01 AM CT
Source: Bloomberg
Ryan Yang could have taken a job in a New Jersey DNA sequencing laboratory after graduating from college last year. Instead, the 23-year-old lives with his family in Queens, New York, still unemployed and searching.
By Dawn Kopecki May 8, 2014 11:01 PM CT
Source: Bloomberg
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It was a Friday in the fall of 2004 and Umber Ahmad had been invited to read a poem at the wedding of one of her closest friends. She was planning to catch a 7 p.m. flight from New York to Toronto when a vice president at Morgan Stanley called her in. The client in a big merger deal needed work done over the weekend. A mergers and acquisitions specialist, Ahmad had no choice. She canceled the flight and started revising her analysis of the deal, Bloomberg Markets magazine will report in its June issue.
Posted: 10/09/2013 1:27 pm
Source: The Huffington Post
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Breakfast is the only meal endowed with a health merit badge. The benefits of this first course of the day, and the hazards of skipping it, have become accepted truths. Despite thin evidence, by which I do not mean skinny people, many even claim that eating breakfast helps lose weight.
Googling “breakfast benefits” draws 127 million results. Only heretics would question this morning institution.
Well, the heretics may have it right. Mounting evidence indicates that it might not be a good idea to break our fast so quickly every day. Research has shown that our overall health and vulnerability to age-related diseases (cancers, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, dementia and muscle loss) is related to something called Chronic Positive Energy Balance (CPEB).
I know it sounds strange. How could anything with “positive energy” in its name be bad? (more…)
By John Gittelsohn Apr 28, 2014 4:10 PM CT
Source: Bloomberg
The U.S. homeownership rate may fall to as low as 55 percent because more Americans are choosing to rent as they postpone getting married and having children, said Sam Zell, chairman of landlord Equity Residential.
Demographic and lifestyle changes, more than economic factors, are driving down the ownership rate over the long term, Zell said today at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills,California. As of 2010, about 54 percent of adults were married, down from 57 percent a decade earlier, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
“The deferral of marriage has such a staggering impact on real estate and I just don’t think people focus on it,” said Zell, 72, whose Chicago-based Equity Residential is the largest U.S. apartment landlord. “I don’t think the multifamily market has ever had a better set of future demographics.” (more…)
By Chrissy Kadleck
4:30 am, December 3, 2012
Source: Crains Cleveland Business
After years of cultivating crops, writing off tax losses and living modest, grounded lives, landowners in eastern Ohio are rural kings sitting upon riches beyond their wildest agricultural dreams.
That makes these newly minted “shaleionaires” the most sought-after clients of money managers, bankers and financial planners around the Buckeye State.
From free seminars to word-of-mouth referrals to partnering with local advisers, wealth managers are eager to sign these landowners and help protect, invest and grow their riches from the shale oil and gas play. (more…)
Posted in Personal Finance February 16, 2012 – 01:45pm
Source: Interest.co.nz
By Amanda Morrall (email)
Some of you might know I’m writing a book. It’s a layman’s guide to personal finance. It’s the anti-thesis of the how to-get-rich quick genre of books. My thesis is that in addition to being mindful, smart, and sensible with your money, you need build up your inner bank account.
What does that mean? Lots of things but it starts with taking stock of your non-financial assets, what you really want out of life and how you can make a difference. My thinking is that it’s not going to do you much good having a million bucks in the bank, if the means by which you achieved it makes you miserable, sick, divorced, or perhaps morally bankrupt. (more…)
Posted by The Weakonomist in Wednesday, October 7th 2009
My job function has changed recently and while I’m still not yet in a position to talk about it, I can tell that my new role allows me to meet people from all walks of life. Not since high school have I been exposed to a wealth of diversity as I have in the last few months. Only in high school I wasn’t analyzing every single person I see and trying to break them down on a financial level.
My prejudice is both a gift and a curse. For most instances it is a curse though. Though I’m not proud of the hypothesis of my observations, I am scientific enough to know what I’m seeing may not be accurate, and to know late these observations take root in my conscience. (more…)
The time has come for Americans to face the reality of retirement planning. Considering that defined benefit plans are moving closer to full extinction each year, it’s now more important than ever for individuals to save for retirement. This is not an easy process for the majority of the workforce. However, you can improve your odds of an ideal retirement by educating yourself and planning for it as soon as possible. (more…)
