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Will America’s Labor-force Dropouts Ever Come Back?
washingtonpost.com 2 weeks agoAs we’ve discussed before , the number of Americans in the labor force , that is, the people who either have jobs or are actively looking for work , has been dwindling in recent years. Some of that’s been due to ordinary demographics: America’s getting older and more people are retiring. Some of it’s been due to the grim economy, which has dissuaded many people from even bothering to look for jobs. Read full article >>
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The Gypsies Are Coming To America
slate.com 3 weeks, 6 days agoWhen the United States attempts to makes its own versions of hit U.K. shows, we always seem to fail ( The Office notwithstanding). America’s Got Talent has given us no Susan Boyle equivalent, and we remember the mercifully short-lived U.S. Coupling primarily as a cautionary tale. And so it was with trepidation that I learned that my precious My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding , a British reality show highlighting the over-the-top celebrations, traditional gender roles, and midriffs of the U.K.’s Romany Gypsies and Ir
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