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The Federal Workers Who Showed Up at “No Kings” Are Not the Villains in This Story

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“Fed Up Fed!” one protest sign in Oakland, California, proclaimed. Across the nation, in DC, other “No Kings” protesters lofted signs reading “Furloughed And Fired Up” and “Stop Using Federal Workers As Pawns.” An estimated 4 million to 6 million people hit the streets of US cities and towns on Saturday to protest the Trump […]

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It’s True: The Internet Skews the Reality of Women (and Men) in the Workforce

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In the 1970s, when researchers asked children to draw a scientist, 99 percent of them drew a man. As this experiment was repeated over 50 years, the number of women drawn increased, and within the past decade, more than half of girls will draw a woman when asked what a scientist looks like. Today, Google […]

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For Furloughed Workers, Trump’s Partisan Shutdown Jabs Are Just the Latest Slight

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In the past, for veteran federal employees, the weeks leading up to a potential shutdown situation have always involved a flurry of emails and meetings in preparation for a winding down of their agency. That, at least, has been the experience of an employee I spoke with at the National Institutes of Health (my former […]

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