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Federal Firefighters Face Steep Pay Cuts
A temporary pay raise for federal wild-land firefighters is set to end next month. Officials have said that more workers…
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World
A Nanny Got 15 Minutes of Fame. An Industry Remains in the Shadows.
Liliana Melgar made a cameo appearance in Shakira’s latest music video, putting a spotlight on domestic workers and their struggles.
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World
Louise Meriwether Dies at 100; in 1970, a New, Black Literary Voice
Writing of life in Harlem, she emerged at the same time as Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou but never achieved…
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News
Behind the Most Famous Men in Economics There Have Always Been Women
When the Nobel Committee awarded its prize in economics on Monday to the Harvard professor Claudia Goldin — the first…
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News
New Novels Brimming With Mystery, Mayhem and Quite a Bit of Murder
Glory Broussard, the star of Danielle Arceneaux’s fabulous debut mystery, GLORY BE (Pegasus Crime, 257 pp., $26.95), differs from most…
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Business
‘What About Us?’ Strikes Leave Other Hollywood Workers Reeling
The lives of hundreds of thousands of crew members have been upended, and even a deal between the actors and…
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News
Follow This Music to Joy
Music is universal among humans, typically used for immediate benefits: aesthetic pleasure, accompaniment to ritual, dance or work or even…
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US
Claudia Goldin’s Nobel-Winning Research Shows ‘Why Women Won’
The winner of the Nobel in economics has demonstrated how gender gaps in work have shrunk, and why some remain.
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World
Family of Thai Farmworker in Israel Worries About His Fate
Kiattisak Patee, a chicken-farm worker, is feared to be one of 14 Thai citizens abducted during an attack in Israel…
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World
Firm in Fatal J.F.K. Trench Collapse Broke Safety Rules, Officials Say
A Bronx construction company failed to prop up a concrete slab that crushed two workers, the federal Occupational Safety and…