Escaping Poverty

The Next Generation of Jobs Won't Be Made up of Professions
The Next Generation of Jobs Won’t Be Made up of Professions
Alina Dizik, BBC
To prepare for the future, we need to shift from thinking about jobs and careers to thinking about challenges and problems.
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Google Is Super Secretive About Its Anti-Aging Research. No One Knows Why.
Google Is Super Secretive About Its Anti-Aging Research. No One Knows Why.
Julia Belluz, Vox
We should pause for a moment to note how strange this is. One of the biggest and most profitable companies in the world has taken an interest in aging research, with about as much funding as NIH’s entire budget for aging research, yet it’s remarkably opaque.
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What the Press Still Doesn’t Get About Trump
What the Press Still Doesn’t Get About Trump
Politico
He’s not unprecedented. He’s not going to change. And 11 other lessons the media still haven’t learned about the president.
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Escaping Poverty Requires Almost 20 Years With Nearly Nothing Going Wrong
Escaping Poverty Requires Almost 20 Years With Nearly Nothing Going Wrong
Gillian B. White, The Atlantic
Temin identifies two types of workers in what he calls “the dual economy.” The first are skilled, tech-savvy workers and managers with college degrees and high salaries who are concentrated heavily in fields such as finance, technology, and electronics—hence his labeling it the “FTE sector.” They make up about 20 percent of the roughly 320 million people who live in America. The other group is the low-skilled workers, which he simply calls the “low-wage sector.”
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Technology Firms and the Office of the Future
Technology Firms and the Office of the Future
The Economist
Their eccentric buildings offer clues about how people will work
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Meet the People Who Train the Robots (to Do Their Own Jobs)
Meet the People Who Train the Robots (to Do Their Own Jobs)
Daisuke Wakabayashi, The New York Times
Before the machines become smart enough to replace humans, as some people fear, they need to be taught.
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Rod Dreher’s Monastic Vision
Rod Dreher’s Monastic Vision
Josh Rothman, The New Yorker
He is as likely to admire Ta-Nehisi Coates’s dispatches from Paris as to inveigh against “safe spaces” on college campuses, and he delights in skewering the left and the right simultaneously—a recent post was called “How Are Pope Francis & Donald Trump Alike?” Because Dreher is at once spiritually and intellectually restless, his blog has become a destination for the ideologically bi-curious. Last year, his interview with J. D. Vance, the author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” was largely responsible for bringing the book to the attention of both liberal and conservative readers. He gets around a million page views a month.
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Are We Having Too Much Fun?
Are We Having Too Much Fun?
Megan Garber, The Atlantic
In 1985, Neil Postman observed an America imprisoned by its own need for amusement. He was, it turns out, extremely prescient.
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The C.E.O. of H.I.V.
The C.E.O. of H.I.V.
Christopher Glazek, The New York Times
Michael Weinstein’s AIDS Healthcare Foundation treats an enormous number of patients — and makes an enormous amount of money. Is that why so many activists distrust him?
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