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Dead celebrity earnings show gender inequality reaches beyond the grave

January 6, 2020

Dead famous: Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean in a still from Giant (1964). Warner Bros

Death is no excuse for celebrities to stop working. James Dean, despite being dead since 1955, has recently been cast in a new Vietnam war movie, Finding Jack. His co-starring role will be computer generated from old footage and photographs and voiced by another actor. The dead are now rivals with the living for parts in movies.

This controversial casting decision has been met with outrage by many actors on Twitter. Complaints have circulated about puppeteering as well as being disrespectful to the dead movie idol.

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Analysis, Historical Perspectives, Human Behavior, Science & Technology News

Millennial life: How young adulthood today compares with prior generations

March 25, 2019

Over the past 50 years – from the Silent Generation’s young adulthood to that of Millennials today – the United States has undergone large cultural and societal shifts. Now that the youngest Millennials are adults, how do they compare with those who were their age in the generations that came before them?

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Education, Employment, Higher Education

Education isn’t the key to a good income

September 29, 2017

A growing body of research debunks the idea that school quality is the main determinant of economic mobility.

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Big Problems, Business, Corporate Manipulation, Culture, Economy, Human Behavior, New Viewpoints, Report

Why Left-handed People Make Less Money

December 15, 2014

There’s a stereotype that left-handed people are clumsier, but that might have something to do with the fact that they live in a world of objects optimized for the right-handed: scissors, the computer mouse, surgical tools, and guns, to name a few. The discrimination against the 12 percent of the population who are lefties has disarming historical roots. In the Middle Ages, left-handed writers were said to be the devil’s voice boxes, and the Jewish scholar Maimonides included sinistrality in his list of 100 imperfections that should preclude someone from priesthood.

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Analysis, Economy, Latest Trend, Money Talk

How much $100 is worth in every state: Map

August 21, 2014

One hundres dollars goes further in some states than others. A map released by the Tax Foundation, via Elliot Turner, shows the relative value of $100 in every state compared with the national average using the data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

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Analysis, Latest Trend, Money Talk

American’s financial lives explained in 29 charts

August 8, 2014

How much money you make and how you spend that money plays a huge part in what your life looks like.

What makes us unique? Well, we like to think lots of things make us unique: where we’re from, how we were raised, our tastes, our education. But for better or worse, how much money you make and how you spend that money also play huge parts in dictating what your life looks like. Vox presents 29 charts below showing how Americans earn and spend money, from childhood through their golden years.

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Analysis, Latest Trend, Money Talk

How rich and poor Americans spend money now and 30 years ago

April 4, 2014

Rent has nearly doubled as a share of a poorer family’s spending.

Every year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics tells us what the typical American spends on everything from his rent to his reading material. There’s just one problem. In a country with growing income inequality, the typical American leaves out a lot of Americans.

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Analysis, Business, Education, Latest Trend

The most and least lucrative college majors

September 13, 2013

Two years ago, Erin Ford graduated from the University of Texas with a bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering. Recruiters came to campus to woo her. She got a paid summer internship, which turned into a full-time job after she graduated. Now, at age 24, she makes $110,000 a year.

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Analysis, Education, Latest Trend, Money Talk

The best and worst majors for earning money

June 27, 2013

Engineering majors in particular have the highest median earnings out of college.

According to a recent report from Georgetown’s Center on Education and the Workforce, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (aka STEM) majors still have the best overall job prospects.

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Analysis, Education, Human Behavior, Science & Technology News

Being popular in school leads to earning more later in life

October 23, 2012

Popularity pays because those who learn to play the game in high school are figuring out what they need to know to succeed when they enter the workplace.

According to a new study released this week, those in the top fifth of the high school popularity pyramid garnered a 10% wage premium nearly 40 years after graduation, compared to those in the bottom fifth.

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Analysis, Business, Money Talk

51% of all doctors believe they are compensated fairly

April 27, 2012

Are doctors rich?

There are few doctors that think of themselves as rich, and only about half think they’re fairly compensated, according to survey by Medscape released this week.

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Analysis, Business, Economy, Latest Trend

Wave of lay-offs hitting banks and thousands more job losses to come

June 30, 2011

About 700 job reductions at HSBC will mainly affect UK branch offices.

The wave of lay-offs hitting banks gathered pace on Thursday. Thousands more job losses are set to hit retail businesses and market divisions while lenders fight off a limp economic recovery, trading woes and tougher regulation.

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