The Great Divergence
Timothy Noah examines the causes and effects of income inequality throughout the ages. http://img.slate.com/media/3/100914_NoahT_GreatDivergence.pdf ...
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Timothy Noah examines the causes and effects of income inequality throughout the ages. http://img.slate.com/media/3/100914_NoahT_GreatDivergence.pdf ...
Read MorePosted by Chase Norlin | Aug 19, 2014 | Blog
American textile and apparel companies are scrambling to find enough workers to satisfy increasing demand....
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More and more people are finding good jobs without getting a degree first. Mike Sugerman reports. View video CBS SF Bay Area...
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The Emerge Digital Group (“EDG”) is one of the fastest growing advertising and marketing firms in the United States—in August it was ranked by Inc. Magazine as the #2 fastest growing private company nationwide in the advertising and marketing industry. While its growth holds lessons about digital marketing, of particular relevance to California’s workforce community is its unconventional hiring model. The company was co-founded in 2009 by Chase Norlin and Alex Rowland. It was a bootstrapped operation, with financing coming from the founders and their families. In the first years, it had no major outside capital investment. chasenorlin copyBy...
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The tech industry wants more skilled workers — from overseas. Companies are lobbying hard for Congress to raise the — visas for people with specialized skills — researchers, for instance, or software engineers. Brad Smith, Microsoft’s general counsel, recently told NPR that more H-1B visas can’t help but be good for the country. “We need to continue to attract some of the best and brightest people in the world to come and join us in world-leading [research and development] efforts,” Smith said. But that “best-and-brightest” argument doesn’t quite match up with reality — especially when you look at which...
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Hu-Friedy Sets Up Apprenticeship Program, But Dental-Instruments Maker Is Rare Exception Hu-Friedy, a manufacturer of dental instruments in Chicago, says its future hinges on four employees. So, it is paying them to leave their jobs for two years. While their colleagues bend and grind cylinders of steel on the factory floor, the four workers since March have been mastering the fundamentals of metal composition and heat-treating, among other things. The hope, managers say, is that the two years of full-time training will help keep the 106-year-old dental-instruments maker competitive in a mature industry crowded with rivals. What’s happening at...
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