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It’s true: Kids Today are more dependent on their parents than Kids Yesterday. At least when it comes to housing. Nearly a third of Americans age 18 to 34 were living with their parents in 2014, according to a new analysis from the Pew Research Center. That’s the highest share since the Great Depression. It…
Peter Thiel offers a case study in the way America’s top tax rate is much, much too low. This week, we learned that Thiel — a Silicon Valley techno-libertarian billionaire who co-founded PayPal, sits on the board of Facebook and is estimated to be worth $2.7 billion — is trying to sue Gawker Media out…
Gwyneth Paltrow’s pop-up shop, goop mrkt, came to San Francisco this week. (Yep, note the very trendy lack of vowels!) Nitasha Tiku / BuzzFeed The shop opened at 140 Maiden Lane, a “stunning small-scale prototype of Frank Lloyd Wright’s design of the Guggenheim Museum,” which feels VERY GOOP. At the goop mrkt’s opening party, there was “pizza” from…
Over the past four years, the number of million-dollar homes in the US has doubled. In 19 American towns, 100% of residences are now worth at least seven figures. Those findings come from real-estate listing company Trulia, which included properties not currently listed for sale in its calculations. Hanalei CDP, HI 100% Rolling Hills city,…
Some millennials may never get to experience the joys of playing bocce and telling kids to get off their lawn, as 12 percent of Americans between the ages of 20 and 34 expect to work until they die. A study, released on Tuesday by workforce solutions company Manpower Group and conducted by surveyor Reputation Leaders, found…
Photo Hannah Kloepfer, an actress and writer, testing shower heads at Pirch, a SoHo store selling luxury home fixtures that is set to open to the public on Saturday. Credit Yana Paskova for The New York Times Someone closed the wide glass doors and pulled the curtains — for privacy — and Hannah Kloepfer did…
.post-info .has-bugs .single-featured-image Tuesday, April 14, is the 19th annual Equal Pay Day. The day is a symbolic representation of the gender pay gap: The average woman would have had to work all last year and into April this year to earn as much as the average man did in 2014 alone. But speaking in…
Gender disparities in income are greater in many white-collar U.S. professions than blue-collar and don’t lend themselves to legislative remedies Dr. Anne Montgomery, left, says her pay has lagged behind that of husband Dr. Glen Stream, center, because of trade-offs for her family. ‘To get back up to speed takes a while,’ she says. PHOTO: SANDY HUFFAKER…
Physicians and surgeons 64.0% Nurse anesthetists 88.0% Dentists 76.0% Pharmacists 93.0% Podiatrists 65.0% Optometrists 82.0% Nurse practitioners 89.0% Veterinarians 81.0% Physician assistants 80.0% Audiologists 87.0% Radiation therapists 87.0% Physical therapists 87.0% Occupational therapists 88.0% Speech-language pathologists 82.0% Chiropractors 76.0% Registered nurses 92.0% Dental hygienists 90.0% Diagnostic related technologists and technicians 86.0% Respiratory therapists 86.0% Miscellaneous…
Uber faces other labor-related hurdles. Along with Lyft, a competing ride-hailing service, the company this week withdrew operations from Austin, Tex., after losing a battle with the City Council over the nature of its background checks for drivers. Under the terms of the deal in New York, which will be in effect for five years,…