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Employee wellness programs have become a staple in many companies as a way to attract top talent, keep them happy and productive, and decrease employee turnover. In fact, 80% of employees at companies with robust health and wellness programs at work feel engaged and cared for by their employers. Pro-tip: Did you know health insurance Open Enrollment has already begun? If you’re feeling lost in the process, talk to Dr. Noor, health insurance expert, for a free 15 minute consultation. The key to having a successful wellness program at work is encouraging overall wellbeing while still keeping it fun. If you can’t get your team engaged...

They’ve been called backyard vacations but, whatever you call them, this is an idea catching on not just for conventional getaways, but for bareboat charters as well. Close-to-home charters are appealing for many reasons. Bareboating means that your boat is supplied without captain or crew: you handle everything from anchoring to cooking, and the choice is up to you where to go. Bareboat chartering in your own country means no language barrier.  Well, except for parts of the Deep South and Maine, anyway. You already understand the money, and your credit cards are welcome as well. And when it comes...

Matthew Desmond, the 43-year-old Princeton sociologist whose last book, Evicted, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, is back with another one, Poverty, by America, that’s bound to generate fruitful debate—and perhaps even inspire some of us to get off our asses and tackle this scourge once and for all.  “In a nutshell, poverty persists because of a lot of us benefit. We allow it, we permit it, we like it.” There are hundreds of nonfiction and fiction books that show us what poverty looks like—Charles Dickens jumps to mind, as does Barbara Kingsolver’s excellent Dickens adaptation, Demon Copperhead....

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A week after George Floyd’s killing by a Minneapolis police officer in May 2020, Michelle Miller’s cell phone buzzed. The CBS Saturday Morning cohost had covered other stories about violence and racial animus: the shootings of Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin, the mass murder in a Charleston, South Carolina, church, the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. Now, with the nation aflame over Floyd’s fate, a senior producer at CBS News’ weekday morning show—where Miller sometimes served as cohost— wanted her perspective. The resulting television segment was more personal than anyone expected. “I exposed why stories like that really resonated with...