Last week the White House held its first United State of Women Summit in Washington D.C. to strategize about gender equality. Every woman knows the problem, in most cases intimately. My Uber driver, Houma, reminded me of this on the…
Read MoreNew Yorkers get a bad rep for being selfish and unkind. But last week, three people jumped onto the subway tracks at the City Hall R station to save a man who had fallen on the tracks. A CUNY graduate…
Read MoreEveryone knows the famous Marshmallow Test pioneered in the 60’s. Put a marshmallow in front of a kid. Tell them they can eat it NOW or they can get 2 marshmallows if they WAIT to eat it later. If the…
Read MoreIf you are not helicoptering your way to the Hamptons on summer Friday afternoons, you are probably a worker bee who takes the subway to work. Summer in NYC is an extreme sport. How do you dress for it? Subway…
Read MoreIt is easy to make someone “the other.” I learned this recently in a class on Intersectionality. Race, class, gender, and whatever else we see as forming our identity, “intersect” to create our unique way of looking at the world.…
Read MoreIn economics, a beggar thy neighbor policy involves one country fixing their economic problems by making some other country’s problems worse. President Obama just told G-7 countries it is what shouldn’t be done in a slowing global economy. We don’t…
Read MoreA new Bloomberg article speaks to a trend directly correlated to the inequality between generations. For the first time in 130 years, young adults are more likely to live with their parents than a partner. Student loan debt, under-employment, and…
Read MoreFor the rest of us, not so much. Elizabeth Warren drove this point home during a speech at the New America Foundation. “The much-touted virtues of flexibility, independence and creativity offered by gig work might be true for some workers…
Read MoreWe have a lot to be afraid of, so we are told. Fear of…. Global growth slowdown Emerging market weakness Inflation Currency manipulation Over-valuation of stocks Market volatility Dollar strength Normalizing interest rates The list goes on and on. All…
Read More1969 saw the premiere of America’s beloved sitcom, The Brady Bunch. It ran from 1969-1974. It went into syndication in 1975, just in time for me to grow up with it. I never realized how progressive The Brady Bunch was.…
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