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Global Company Car Benefits -- An Essential Component of Key Talent Reward Programs

VisualNews.com | Posted 05.07.2013 | Business
VisualNews.com

After analyzing data from 89 markets worldwide, a new report by Mercer lists company car benefits as a key component in key talent retention programs, with brands such as Volkswagen, Ford, Toyota and Honda topping the list of cars offered to the most valued employees.

Down Is a Dangerous Direction

Barbara Garson | Posted 04.09.2013 | Business
Barbara Garson

If you had to date the Great Recession, you might say it started in September 2008 when Lehman Brothers vaporized over a weekend. By 2008, however, the majority of American workers had already endured a 40-year decline in wages, security, and hope -- a Long Recession of their own.

The Brainwashing 'Cult' of Meditation

Kino MacGregor | Posted 04.01.2013 | Healthy Living
Kino MacGregor

The difference between a cult and a true path of spiritual evolution is sometimes hard to see form the outside. But when I washed my brain with the tools of meditation I didn't see it like a cult, I saw it more like going to the army for boot camp.

It's Not Too Late for a War Tax

Joseph J. Thorndike | Posted 05.19.2013 | Politics
Joseph J. Thorndike

For 10 years, the United States has been fighting very real and very expensive wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But we have never levied a dime in special taxes to pay for either of these conflicts, let alone the also-expensive war at home (in the form of homeland security).

How Effective Is the Safety Net?

Bob Greenstein | Posted 04.08.2013 | Politics
Bob Greenstein

For significant numbers of poor children and families, programs like Medicaid, food stamps and the Earned Income Tax Credit are vital, but they are not sufficient by themselves to overcome the serious multiple barriers these individuals and families can come up against.

Pension Panic Fueled by Anti-Worker Politics?

Michelle Chen | Posted 03.27.2013 | Politics
Michelle Chen

Pension costs seem to loom over so many state and local budget battles like a sinister sword of Damocles, a dark reminder of Big Government's tyrannical profligacy. Should we panic?

Companies With The Best Job Perks

The Huffington Post | Posted 01.18.2013 | Business

Imagine coming into your first day at a new job, only to find a big tub of candy on your desk. Doesn't sound so bad, does it? In fact, it's just one o...

When Hardship Hits: Ask Not, 'Why Me?!' Ask, 'Why Not Me?!'

Ann Rasmussen | Posted 02.16.2013 | Healthy Living
Ann Rasmussen

We can choose to think flexibly and adaptively, rather than rigidly and maladaptively, by redefining painful life blows as opportunities to evolve. Suffering is the "rock-tumbler" of life, within which the nuggets of our battered selves get polished into our highest and best selves.

Why You Can't Outsource HR

Liz Ryan | Posted 02.04.2013 | Business
Liz Ryan

Real HR work is transformational: That's why it's fun, and why it's as strategic as your five-year plan, if not more so.

Alice Hines

Hungry Families Crowd Food Stamp Centers In NYC

HuffingtonPost.com | Alice Hines | Posted 11.06.2012 | Business

Kayla Noell was having a tough time even before the hurricane. The 21-year-old single mom uses the $526 in food stamps she receives each month to feed...

The Latest Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA): Is It Accurate?

Dana Bell | Posted 12.19.2012 | Politics
Dana Bell

Social Security's benefits are modest by virtually any measure, but vital to the millions of seniors, people with disabilities, and survivors who rely on them. The annual Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) is not a benefit increase, but a part of the basic benefit.

Tenured Economists For a Free Market President

Pat Choate | Posted 12.02.2012 | Politics
Pat Choate

Romney's economic plan has gained the public endorsement of more than 600 professional economists. This public support, however, is diminished by the fact that most of these economists are urging voters to do as they say, but not as they do.

Meet the Top 10 Companies for Health and Wellness

Jennifer Owens | Posted 11.18.2012 | Parents
Jennifer Owens

Keeping fit and energized is as important as taking your child to ballet class or taking another business call.

Breastfeeding at Work, or Somebody Feed That Baby!

Liz Ryan | Posted 11.17.2012 | Parents
Liz Ryan

Flexible programs don't do a lot of good unless people actually use them.

Unions Matter More Than Ever

Edward M. Smith | Posted 08.27.2012 | DC
Edward M. Smith

If we want to do something about this nation's inequality, if we want to rebuild the middle class and if we want to train the greatest work force the world has ever seen, we need unions. Unions matter today more than ever.

Tech Company Perks Make the Rest of Employers Look Bad

Jessica Miller-Merrell | Posted 10.21.2012 | Business
Jessica Miller-Merrell

Work at a technology company in Silicon Valley, Austin, Texas, or another tech-savvy city, and as an employee you are sitting pretty.

Early Cancer Detection Saves Lives

Vanessa Cullins | Posted 10.17.2012 | Black Voices
Vanessa Cullins

Planned Parenthood health centers performed nearly 750,000 breast cancer screenings nationwide. Now, we will be able to serve our existing patients with even more resources--and reach new patients.

Secretary Sebelius: Time to Tour Country Explaining How the Affordable Health Care Act Works

Paul Abrams | Posted 10.06.2012 | Politics
Paul Abrams

Now that the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Healthcare Act has been established, people need to know how it is going to work for them.

What's in It for Me?

Irene Tanner | Posted 09.23.2012 | Healthy Living
Irene Tanner

Altruism is a lofty aspiration. The do-gooders of the world are widely revered for their pureness of heart, selflessness and generosity. Could it be that they have an ulterior motive? Even if their reward is simply to feel good about themselves?

When Your Employees Thrive, So Does Your Business

Leah Busque | Posted 09.17.2012 | Small Business
Leah Busque

So how do we go about keeping employees happy at TaskRabbit? Sure, we have our ping-pong tables, Nerf guns, and video games, but that's just the start.

All You Need to Know About Romney

Frank A. Weil | Posted 09.16.2012 | Politics
Frank A. Weil

This Romney statement must be such a long throw to appeal to and energize the far right, but it is so wrongheaded that his desperation at this stage is downright amazing.

Women Have an Obligation to Mentor

Ekaterina Walter | Posted 02.02.2013 | Women
Ekaterina Walter

There is nothing preventing you from gaining the benefits of being a mentor, so it's time to start thinking about the women you want to mentor and how best to help them.

The Debt Is Not a Measure of Generational Burdens

Dean Baker | Posted 08.12.2012 | Business
Dean Baker

We can have a large amount of government debt and still have a country where income and wealth are relatively equally distributed.

Do You Really Know What Your Business Does?

John Friedman | Posted 07.01.2012 | Business
John Friedman

The fact is we so often get caught up on the tactics of what our companies or organizations make day to day that we lose sight completely of what it is they really do.

Greek Fraudsters Lose Benefits

Reuters | Posted 06.25.2012 | Business

By Angeliki Koutantou and Harry Papachristou ATHENS, April 25 (Reuters) - Greece has halted welfare or pension payment...