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Paid vs. Unpaid: Taking a Look At Intern Compensation

Ashley Mosley | Posted 05.22.2013 | Business
Ashley Mosley

The fact of the matter is that deciding whether or not to pay your interns can have company-wide implications. Let's take a look at what paid and unpaid internships provide for your company.

Outrageous Executive Compensation: Corporate Boards, Not the Market, Are to Blame

Ed Lawler | Posted 12.17.2012 | Business
Ed Lawler

If boards do not reduce how much executives are compensated, there is a good possibility that further government regulations will be created and that large shareholders will become more active.

Pay Secrecy: Why Bother?

Ed Lawler | Posted 11.20.2012 | Business
Ed Lawler

Perhaps the best way to summarize pay secrecy is to say that it has become an old-fashioned, obsolete management practice that has a much larger downside than upside. It is time for organizations to enter the world of pay transparency.

Do You Trust Yourself?

Soul Dancer | Posted 10.20.2012 | Healthy Living
Soul Dancer

Establishing a sound sense of trust in yourself creates a solid foundation for awakening a robust sense of worth -- on all levels.

Dems' War FOR Women

Brent Budowsky | Posted 07.03.2012 | Politics
Brent Budowsky

If Republicans want to stop being tarred and feathered by the charge that they wage these wars against women, they should stop fighting them, and start supporting pay equity for women and stop attacking healthcare programs vital for women, their daughters, their sons and their babies.

Everyone Agrees That the Decline in Private Sector Pay Has Been Understated

Dean Baker | Posted 07.02.2012 | Business
Dean Baker

The cost to taxpayers of public employees' compensation packages are on average no greater than the cost to private sector employees. The big difference is that public employees can expect a considerably more secure retirement.

WATCH: Ex-Banker Takes Huge Pay Cut To Open Butcher Shop

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.17.2012 | Business

Ex-banker Terry Walsh isn't a victim of the financial crisis, so why did he leave his high-paying job to open a butcher shop? "This is my dream, an...

Beltway Influencers Still Mad Men

The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 03.29.2012 | Home

If the worst-kept secret on Capitol Hill is that top lobbying groups actually control the show, then the best-kept secret is that the whizzes behind t...

Catherine New

Cash Is Still The Most Popular Way to Pay for Most Americans: Report

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 01.24.2012 | Business

When it's time to pay for small, everyday items, cash is still king. More than three-quarters, or 79 percent, of consumers said they made a cash p...

Factory Worker Lights Himself On Fire To Protest Working Conditions At Hyundai Plant

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 01.19.2012 | Business

The auto industry saw a largely strong year in 2011 with U.S. sales rising 10 percent, but a recent incident at a Hyundai plant in South Korea may rai...

Janell Ross

N.Y. Building Cleaners Poised to Strike

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 12.28.2011 | Business

Workers who clean more than 1,500 buildings in New York -- including iconic facilities such as the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center and the T...

10 Major Cities Where Wages Are Rising Most

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 12.11.2011 | Business

There are some major cities where pay appears to be growing, but not that quickly -- and when you take inflation into account it might not be growing ...

Amanda M. Fairbanks

Why You Need A Mentor At Work -- And How To Find One

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 08.23.2011 | Women

During her first job out of college, Ally Sperber never went in search of a mentor. Instead, Mary Ellen, one of the managing partners in the financial...

Almost All Americans Aren't Expecting A Raise This Year

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 08.23.2011 | Business

As the economic gloom settles in, American workers seem to be coming around to the conclusion that they may be facing a permanent midnight. A new s...

Stagnant Middle Class Feeling Pressure Of Rising Tuition Costs

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 08.20.2011 | Business

The cost of a college education is rising, but the wages that pay for them aren't. Over the last 20 years, while pay for the average American work...

Amanda M. Fairbanks

Do College Professors Earn Their Keep?

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 06.07.2011 | College

For years, state legislators, parents, and even his own boss had been hectoring Frank Ashley, the vice chancellor of academic affairs for the Texas A&...

Fannie, Freddie Heads Received Large Pay Without Justification, Report Finds

Posted 06.01.2011 | Business

The heads of bailed-out mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae (FNMA.OB) and Freddie Mac (FMCC.OB) were paid fat salaries without proper written proc...

White House Report on Women Has Crappy News (VIDEO)

Erin Gibson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Erin Gibson

For 40 years women thought they were getting paid less than men, but short of digging pay stubs out of garbage cans, didn't really have hard evidence. Until now.

Wall Street Pay 'Vaults to Record Altitude'

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Jonathan Tasini

Sometimes, I wonder whether we all live in a grand farce. But, actually, it's a real-life story about a robbery of the people that continues every d...

The F Word: The Violence of the Broken Economy

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Laura Flanders

A lot of people have talked this week about violent political rhetoric bringing the U.S. to a fever pitch, but there's something else keeping people o...

Don't Rob From IRA to Pay Paul

Natalie Pace | Posted 05.25.2011 | Divorce
Natalie Pace

Dear Natalie, I recently divorced and without the extra income of my spouse, I'm drowning in credit card debt.

Bottoming Out Financially, Rocking Out Proactively

Justin Cox | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Justin Cox

In hopes of making my loan payments, I play guitar in the subway.

Senate: Women are worth less

Eve Tahmincioglu | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Eve Tahmincioglu

It's no surprise a pay equity bill got voted down yesterday. Women wanting equal pay is now seen as just an obsession, like needing a new pair of sti...

Is Marriage a Barbarian-Adoption Program?

Bella DePaulo | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Bella DePaulo

Married men are less generous with their friends after marrying. How, does this qualify as acting "more civilized," as the Marriage Mafia claim?

"Generation D" for Diminishing Paycheck

Eve Tahmincioglu | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Eve Tahmincioglu

Bosses say they don't have the money to pay you more, but how much of what has happened to the paychecks of American workers has to do with our acceptance of diminishing returns?