Jack Metzgar argued recently that working-class grit has value for all of us. Perhaps the most talked about notion of grit is Angela Lee Duckworth’s. She defines grit as maintaining “effort and interest over years despite failure, adversity, and plateaus in progress.” Duckworth created a “grit scale” focusing on the individual’s ability to commit to […]

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How unequal have workplaces in the United States become? Our best answer happens to come from an unlikely source: the Social Security Administration. Social Security statisticians each year tally up how much compensation gets reported on W-2s, those forms that employers have to file for employees at all their worksites, from mailrooms to executive suites. […]

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(Source: AP via NPR) Outbreaks of E. coli always grab national headlines, but equally dangerous to public health is norovirus, or the winter stomach flu. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that as much as 90 percent of norovrius outbreaks can be traced to sick restaurant workers. That’s because sick restaurant workers cannot […]

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It has never been as clear that Americans who support a secure state of Israel have an obligation to oppose the Netanyahu government. That is not as daring as it sounds. Opposing Prime Minister Netanyahu only requires backing the efforts of our own government to achieve an Israeli-Palestinian agreement and a nuclear deal with Iran. […]

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(Source: via Business Insider) First, Virginia. Though the pollsters were wrong about the size of Democrat Terry McAuliffe’s margins, the race went the way Virginia’s demographics predicted it would, with Republican Ken Cuccinelli winning all but the densest populated parts of the state. McAuliffe’s ties to the national Democratic Party and his ethical challenges should have […]

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