Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
Many remember watching "The Wizard of Oz" as a child. We were captivated by the magical world of Oz and the characters who roamed its colorful countryside.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
The American welfare system was designed to support those in need, but it now faces significant challenges. Learn about its origins, current issues, and potential reforms, such as Universal Basic Income and universal healthcare, to create a balanced welfare state that works for all.
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- Written by: Steven Pressman
Republicans and Democrats are again playing a game of chicken over the U.S. debt ceiling – with the nation’s financial stability at stake.
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- Written by: Owunc Yilmaz
Whether you’re booking a plane ticket at the last minute, hoping to snag seats for a popular concert or looking to go to a lackluster preseason football game, you might encounter what’s known as dynamic pricing.
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- Written by: Alan Austin
Americans seeking wisdom about the state of their economy will gain little insight from mainstream economics writers. They are like detectives called to investigate an assault. They note boot prints in the garden, the broken living room window and the smell of gunpowder. But they fail to observe the three dead bodies.
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- Written by: Eileen Workman
A new economic model would need to be win/win, far different from the win/lose paradigm under which we’ve been operating.
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- Written by: Thom Hartmann
Forgiving student debt is not a slap at anybody; it's righting a moral wrong inflicted on millions by Reagan and his morbidly rich Republican buddies.
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- Written by: Paul Allin et al
It’s an odd quirk of history that, on the first day of his ill-fated presidential campaign in March 1968, Robert F Kennedy chose to talk to his audience about the limitations of gross domestic product* (GDP) – the world’s headline indicator of economic progress.
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- Written by: Michele Gilman, University of Baltimore
Reproductive health isn’t just about abortion, despite all the attention the procedure gets. It’s also about access to family planning services, contraception, sex education and much else – all of which have also come under threat in recent years.
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- Written by: Sarah Avery, Duke University
Health care workers experienced high rates of potential “moral injury” that are comparable to rates experienced by military veterans, according to a new study.
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- Written by: John Logan, San Francisco State University
As a scholar of the labor movement who has observed union drives for two decades, what I find almost as striking as the victories is the unconventional nature of the organizing campaigns. Both the Starbucks and Amazon-Staten Island campaigns have been led by determined young workers.
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- Written by: Richard Vague
The United States was founded at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and has met with extraordinary business success from the days of its founding. Upon that success was built the broad prosperity of the new nation and the opportunity for great fortunes for the bold.
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- Written by: Veronika Dolar, SUNY Old Westbury
Economists typically focus on the three big macroeconomic variables: gross domestic product, unemployment and inflation.
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- Written by: Scott L. Montgomery, University of Washington
Russia’s war against Ukraine will change the landscape of global energy and its geopolitics in profound ways. Pieces of this terrain have already begun shifting.
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- Written by: Alexander Kurov, West Virginia University and Marketa Wolfe, Skidmore College
There’s a growing bipartisan push to prohibit members of Congress from buying or selling stocks. The shift follows news reports that several senators sold stocks shortly after receiving coronavirus briefings in early 2020 and that at least 57 lawmakers have failed to disclose financial transactions since 2012 as required by law.
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- Written by: Rich Barlow, Boston University
New research finds men’s risk tolerance and overconfidence play a role in the gender wage gap.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, Innerself.com
There have been some standout successes for some countries dealing with this Covid pandemic.
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- Written by: Robert Massa, University of Southern California
Sixteen universities – including six in the Ivy League – are accused in a lawsuit of having engaged in price fixing and unfairly limiting financial aid by using a shared methodology to calculate the financial need of applicants.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, Innerself.com
Millions of Americans have no health insurance and even if the do they live in fear that one illness could bankrupt them.
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- Written by: Jade McClain, New York University
Dickens consciously thought of A Christmas Carol as a message book, which he hoped would deliver what he called a 'sledge-hammer' blow on behalf of ameliorating the suffering of the urban poor
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, Innerself.com
The means to achieve quality healthcare for all is there. All that is lacking is the people's will and demand. But how?
