Paul Carisma said his country’s way of life was destroyed in just a few short minutes. “The Haiti earthquake was a horrible experience,” he said. Carisma came to Chicago after the 2010 Haiti earthquake to finish high school. On April 1, Carisma, who is now a freshman at DePaul University, participated at “Taste for … Continue reading »
“Mancession” is the new nickname being thrown around for the recession that began in 2007. The nickname stems from the victims of job loss in the recession: mostly men. This year, for the first time in American history, women make up a majority of the workforce in highly paid managerial and professional positions, holding down the fields at 51.4 percent, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
At the same time that blue-collar jobs historically done by men are becoming hard to find, higher education is being dominated by women. This is giving way to a new dynamic in the white-collar workforce. Continue reading »
