Harvard Business Review's Tammy Erickson describes in glowing terms "The Rise of the New Contract Worker ". The Defense Department would appear to be reevaluating this popular labor trend, though. The Huffington Post reports that while contractors comprise less than a quarter of the Defense Department's labor force, they account for 50 percent of its cost. …
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Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's controversial comment reveals a competing priority. Does someone who so openly esteems one ethnic or gender group's potential over another belong on the bench?
What this worldwide recession proves: Globalism is a fatally flawed model in the present economic and ecologic sense. Protectionism may not be the answer, but nor is leaving one's country ripe for manipulation at the hands of commodities and foreign currency traders, resource shortages and above all too-close-to-the-bone ideas about corporate "efficiency" that make transcontinental supply chains so perilously thin and easy to disrupt. Why we need a cell-based economy. Stat.