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...country to help offset the shrinking labor pool. DPJ lawmakers also want to improve the lives of younger Japanese workers by curbing the hiring of temporary workers by manufacturers, a widespread practice that over the last decade or so has relegated many youth to second-class-citizen status. While older workers hang on to the best jobs, younger workers stuck in temp positions are denied many company and government benefits. Chronic job insecurity makes it tough to start families - exacerbating the demographics problem. (see the new activism of Japan's youth...
...unemployment), when many people are struggling, we commissioned a poll to look at how people are serving these days. The most striking results centered not on volunteering but on the cash register. (See page 40.) Even as people acknowledged that times were tough, 38% of Americans 18 and older, some 86 million people, reported taking a number of socially conscious actions this year, including buying green products and goods from companies they thought had responsible values...
...greater flexibility in their scheduling. Given that all new Gen Ed classes have been engineered to fulfill a Core requirement, and that the 2008-2009 Harvard Student Handbook recommends that the Classes of 2010 and 2011 opt for the Core, more students had been expected to stick with the older program. But several students interviewed by The Crimson this week say that switching to the Gen Ed system allows them to shed requirements that they would otherwise be required to fulfill if they stayed in the Core. Fathima F. Jahufar ’11, a Molecular and Cellular Biology concentrator...
...Responsibles, however, are in the vanguard and represent 38% of Americans 18 and older, or about 86 million people. They are more likely than Toe Dippers or Skeptics to be female, married, African American and college-educated. They tend to be well-off but not wealthy, and they have done many things that people in the other groups haven't, such as buying a household appliance on the basis of its energy rating or a product because they like the values of the company that made it. While they are particularly concerned about the environment, they are much more willing...
...into effect Sept. 1 - in the form of a radically changed power-of-attorney (POA) document - couldn't have come at a better time. "Financial abuse is one of the fastest growing areas of elder abuse," says Andrea Lowenthal, an elder-law and estate-planning attorney in New York. "Older people are a growing segment of society and are among the most vulnerable, often because of their misplaced trust." But if seniors are the prey, then they often choose their predators - people they've empowered to act on their behalf, as agents, in financial matters, though a POA. (Watch TIME...