Articles filed under Washington Post
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How a scorned industry plans to keep the 400% loan aroundJun 19, 2016 7:16 am - When federal regulators recently took their first ever step to protect consumers who use payday lenders, many experts described the move as a fatal blow to the industry....
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How the 'glass ceiling' became such a powerful - and problematic - metaphorJun 19, 2016 7:15 am - Hillary Clinton cracked another glass ceiling when she reached the number of delegates needed in the Democratic primary race to become the first female presumptive presi...
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Why inequality is worse for your wallet than a weak economyJun 19, 2016 7:09 am - Two trends have socked American workers over the past three decades. The economy has grown more slowly than it did in the decades after World War II, and the growth we'v...
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Who gets the workplace in the divorce?Jun 19, 2016 7:05 am - Q: My fiancee has worked at a multinational company for nearly a decade. Her ex-husband previously worked at the same company but left a year before their divorce severa...
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Career Coach: Staying calm under pressure tells a lot about a leaderJun 19, 2016 7:05 am - "Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm." Publilius Syrus Recently, a colleague reminded me of a fundamental lesson when selecting and evaluating leaders. He poin...
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Rock climber, photographer moves beyond his blindnessJun 19, 2016 7:00 am - Justin Salas clings to the face of a boulder, his body weight supported by his fingertips and one foot perched precariously on a meager crevice in the stone. He reaches...
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Is the 10,000-steps goal more myth than science? Study seeks fitness truthsJun 19, 2016 7:00 am - Much of what we know about exercise remains a guess, based mostly on experiments from lab treadmills or ideas from often unreliable details recorded in people's diaries ...
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Queasiness and other unsettled gut feelings are normal signs of agingJun 18, 2016 1:00 pm - A friend complains that she's often queasy when she wakes up in the morning. Another mentions that he cannot eat fast food anymore without regretting it for hours. I lea...
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Startup will help landlords, employers mine intimate data from your Facebook pageJun 18, 2016 7:18 am - There's a scene in the dystopian scifi novel "Ready Player One" in which the protagonist glimpses the dossier of personal information a major tech company has gathered o...
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App review: SeatGeek is just the ticketJun 18, 2016 7:17 am - SeatGeek is an event ticket marketplace and aggregator that collects and sells tickets from third-party vendors, such as Fanxchange, UberSeat and AJ Tickets, kind of lik...