by Tyler Durden Today, U.S. fast-food workers will strike across 270 cities in a protest for higher wages and union rights that they hope will catch the attention of candidates in 2016 elections, organizers said. The walkouts will be followed

Submitted by: Tyler Durden By: Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog While many hope that every low-skill person can become a high-skilled worker, training people doesn’t create jobs for them. One of the most appealing beliefs about technology–that it will always

By STEVEN GREENHOUSE AMID the global economic turmoil and seesawing markets, millions of Americans have one overriding question: When will my pay increase arrive? The nation’s unemployment rate has fallen substantially since the end of the Great Recession, sliding to

By: Richard Feloni Since becoming the CEO of LinkedIn in 2009, Jeff Weiner has developed a reputation as one of the US’s top executives. It’s not only for helping take LinkedIn to a market cap of $32 billion, but also

by Kerry Hannon If you are job hunting in your 50s, and some of these ‘don’ts’ describe you, here’s what to do [metaslider id=1408] http://www.aarp.org/work/job-hunting/info-2015/job-search-mistakes-photo.html?cmp=SL-DSO-OUTBRAIN-DESKTAB-WORKJOBS-WORKJOBSALTHEAD-MIXED-DIVERS_8+Don%27ts+for+Job+Hunters+Over+50_922038017_384871#slide1  

by Maureen Conway The American workforce started out as the goose that laid the golden egg for American business, but now it is suffering a death of 1,000 cuts. Americans work harder than almost anyone else in the world, putting

By: Jim Michaels My personal exposure to Silicon Valley is limited. Back in the 1990s, I was interviewing for a job at a large technology company expanding into the media business. When the interviewer asked about my management experience, I pointed

By: Jason Tanz Salman Khan sits at the head of a conference table, surrounded by about a dozen children, talking about Hitler. It’s late June, nine months into the first year at Khan Lab School, Khan’s educational R&D lab in

by Ricky Riley As technology increasingly becomes a vital part of our lives, diversity in tech will continue be a major issue. According to a study by New York startup Course Report, coding boot camps like Black Girls Code and Code

By PATRICIA COHEN When the Obama administration agreed this summer to erase the federal loan debt of some former students at Corinthian Colleges, a for-profit school that filed for bankruptcy in the face of charges of widespread fraud, education officials