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News Archive

October 2018

"A Poor Man Rejoices"
The Nation
"Ad Hoc Nation; The unmaking of the steady job"
Wired
"An Alternative History of Silicon Valley Disruption"
"And one-time retail giant Sears filed for bankruptcy this week. On Twitter, historian Louis Hyman weighed in on what you may not know about the store’s legacy"
The New York Times
"Back When Sears Made Black Customers a Priority"
"Cornell cuts ties with China's Renmin University over student crackdown" -- First citation.
"Cornell cuts ties with China's Renmin University over student crackdown" -- Second citation.
The New York Times
"Cornell Cuts Ties With Chinese School After Crackdown on Students"
South China Morning Post
"Cornell decision adds to growing climate of fear on Chinese campuses."
Financial Times
"Cornell halts China university ties over curbs on academic freedom"
Inside Higher Ed
"Cutting Ties"
Cornell Chronicle
"Harnessing machine learning and big data to fight hunger"
"Harry Reid Once Wanted To End Birthright Citizenship For Children Of Illegal Immigrants, Too"
The Sacramento Bee
"Health care workers claim victories in 3-day strike; UC leaders say no deal"
"How Sears and its catalog helped subvert Jim Crow in the South"
"How sports betting partnership with MGM Resorts could impact NHL and teams like Blackhawks"
NPR
"Jeff Sessions Told DOJ Not To Discuss Citizenship Question Alternatives"
"New 5th Annual “Freelancing in America” Study Finds That the U.S. Freelance Workforce, Now 56.7 Million People, Grew 3.7 Million Since 2014"
"NHL partners with MGM to share data for sports betting"
Forbes
"NHL's Historic Deal With MGM Resorts Completes Gary Bettman's U-Turn On Sports Betting"
"Rahul Manchanda Analyzes the Importance of Business Immigration for US Economy"
"Rosemary Batt discusses her recent piece at American Prospect"
Wall Street Journal
"Supreme Court to Weigh Workers’ Right to Sue Their Employers"
"The Best Leaders Scan for Information"
"U.S. trade friction hitting academia: experts"
"US trade friction hitting academia: experts; Chinese overseas students contributing to American economy"
Marketplace
"Why do we have a 30-year mortgage, anyway?"
The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/montgomery-council-weighs-whether-to-guarantee-raises-for-trash-crews/2018/10/08/eb6f8ce6-c7f7-11e8-9b1c-a90f1daae309_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8e5ee4396923
The Cut
“150 Law Professors Release Powerful Statement Against Sexual Harassment”
“A Slowing Chinese Economy Means More Instability”
“Are Immigrants Driving Income Inequality? – AAF”
“Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston”
Ithaca Journal
“Cornell University names new dean of business college”
NPR
“How The Sears Catalog Was Revolutionary In The Jim Crow Era”
“Mentor to Unions and Women Who Work, Dies at 94” -- First citation.
The New York Times
“Mentor to Unions and Women Who Work, Dies at 94” -- Second citation.
Business Insider
“Morgan Stanley is fighting to stop a race-discrimination suit from going to trial by using a controversial tactic that keeps employee complaints secret”
“New Bedford should take health care approach to drug addiction”
“Preparing U.S. Workers and Employers for an Autonomous Vehicle Future - Program on Vehicle and Mobility Innovation”
“Private Equity Pillage: Grocery Stores and Workers at Risk”
The Miami Herald
“Sears catalog helped African Americans subvert Jim Crow”
“Sears Didn’t ‘Die.’ Vulture Capitalists Killed it”
The Washington Post
“Sears’s ‘radical’ past: How mail-order catalogues subverted the racial hierarchy of Jim Crow”
“Sexual Assault Costs Victims Up to $3 Million in Lost Education, Earnings”
“Staying Out Of The Overthinking Trap”
“Temp: How America Work - Talks at Google”
The American Prospect
“The American Prospect, It Was Vulture Capitalism that Killed Sears”
The Economist
“The Collapse of an American Retail Giant”
Market watch
“The end of the two-week pay cycle: How every day can be payday”
“The entrepreneurial chemist talks about molecular tools, batteries in the walls and a three-slice secret to success”

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