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How Managers Can Address Their Own Biases Around Mental Health

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Discrimination against employees because of their health — including mental health — is illegal. While HR can make sure the right supports are in place, managers should also make sure that stigma isn’t impacting their day-to-day decisions about their teams. For example, how can a manager prevent their personal views on mental health from biasing their task assignment or performance reviews of an employee who’s disclosed a mental health challenge?

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Musings on Markets: Control, Complexity and Politics: Deconstructing the Adani Affair!

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The India Rising story hit some turbulence last week, as one of its biggest corporate success stories, the Adani Group, was hit with a report from Hindenburg Research, an investing group that specializes in targeting and shorting companies that it believes have dubious accounting and business practices. In response, people have fallen into two groups, with the Adani family and its supporters arguing that the short selling report is a hit job by a “foreign” entity to bring down not ju

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Links 2/5/2023 | naked capitalism

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Jupiter: The Only Planet in our Solar System That Doesn’t Orbit the Sun Physics-Astronomy Climate/Environment ‘ADVANCED’ PLASTIC RECYCLING USING HIGH HEAT AND CHEMICALS IS ENVIRONMENTALLY PROBLEMATIC, A NEW GOVERNMENT STUDY FINDS Allegheny Front Water Mississippi Lawmakers Trying To Take Over Jackson Water Funds, Federal Manager Warns Mississippi Free Press Pumping Mississippi water to the West still being considered to address droughts Minnpost #COVID-19 Not long from now, maybe 5 or 10 years,

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Modi Is Hurting Himself by Brawling With the BBC

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Sadanand Dhume writes a biweekly column on India and South Asia for WSJ.com. He focuses on the region’s politics, economics and foreign policy. Mr. Dhume is also a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. Previously he worked as the New Delhi bureau chief of the Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER), and as Indonesia correspondent for FEER and The Wall Street Journal Asia.

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James Galbraith: The Quasi-Inflation of 2021-2022 – A Case of Bad Analysis and Worse Response

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Yves here. Galbraith reviews conventional pictures of inflation, the profile of our current episode, and how it clear did not result from Covid “stimulus” related spending. This piece does a good job of making theory accessible and explaining how it applies to recent conditions. However, readers may quibble with Galbraith not including food shortages (avian flu, supply chain interruptions, some poor harvests) in his list of inflation drivers.

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January jobs seen slowing slightly, but impact of big layoffs unclear

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Economists expect slightly slower, but still strong job growth in January, while the impact of corporate layoff announcements is unclear. According to Dow Jones, the consensus forecast calls for 187,000 new nonfarm jobs in January, down from 223,000 that were created in December. The employment report will be released at 8:30 a.m. ET Friday. The unemployment rate is expected to edge higher, to 3.6% from 3.5%.

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How to Save Money And STOP Living Paycheck-to-Paycheck

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According to a recent Lending Club report , 64% of Americans lived paycheck-to-paycheck in December 2022, up from 61% a year earlier. Also, one-third of American consumers report not saving any money. But what does it mean to live paycheck-to-paycheck, and how does a person break the cycle? In this article, I’ll answer that question, but I’ll also show you how to save $1000 while living paycheck-to-paycheck, so you can begin to live within your means.

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