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HOUSTON, July 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In an act of civil disobedience that harkens back to the civil rights movement, 15 activists risked arrest today to protest their employers' misconduct, adding to the growing divide between the 1% and the rest of us. According to a Fox news poll in Houston released last night, 63 percent of Houstonians believe janitors should be paid more for their work. "The struggle for economic justice led by janitors in Houston is deplorable,"...

CHICAGO, July 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- While the Eastern promise presented by Chinese consumers has become universally acknowledged in recent years, out of the increase of power and prosperity in China, a new middle class sector has emerged, creating with it even more opportunities for those brands prepared to tap into their changing tastes and preferences. Indeed, new research from Mintel into the emerging middle class in China reveals that booming interest in technology is set to...

Kathryn Rose, CEO and Laura Rubinstein, President of content syndication community, Social Buzz Club along with Lena West, CEO of InfluenceExpansion.com announce an alliance to bring content syndication services to the members of the Influence Expansion Academy. San Diego, CA (PRWEB) April 04, 2012 “We are excited to introduce the Social Buzz Club to our members,” says West. “Expanding your influence has everything to do with two things: 1) how much quality content you produce and...

NEW YORK, April 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Online advertised vacancies rose 246,300 in March to 4,669,600, according to The Conference Board Help Wanted OnLine® (HWOL) Data Series released today. The March rise is the fourth consecutive monthly rise. The Supply/Demand rate stands at 2.9 unemployed for every vacancy; however, nationally there are still 8.4 million more unemployed than advertised vacancies. "The March sharp rise in labor demand continued to narrow the gap...

Free ebook helps executives, managers, employees understand social shift of the enterprise. San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) March 14, 2012 Corporate America is in flux as it struggles with the shifting paradigms of a consumer technology-driven workplace. Traditional workplaces are giving way to a distributed, mobile, virtual and global workforce—and a multi-generational one at that. Companies are struggling to retain top talent and drive optimal performance. Social Goals offers real...

The number of people living in China's cities, which last year for the first time surpassed 50 percent of the national population, is considered a boon for the consumer goods market. That is based on the assumption that there will be more families with more disposable income when poor farmers from China's countryside move to cities and become middle-class industrial and office workers. But the assumption overlooks a policy from the era of Chinese leader Mao Zedong that restricts the upward...

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today janitors in dozens of cities across the country--including Chicago, Houston and New York City--will protest the growing income inequality between the richest 1% and the 99%. Here in Los Angeles, hundreds of workers will march from the UCLA campus through Westwood to draw attention to the impact of inequality on both working-class and middle-class families. More than 100,000 janitors represented by the Service Employees...

For those with few social advantages, college is a prime pathway to financial stability, but it also unexpectedly lowers their odds of ever marrying, according to a study by Cornell University sociologist Kelly Musick being published in the February issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family (available online: http://bit.ly/yt9uwJ). The findings suggest that social and cultural factors, not just income, are central to marriage decisions. Men and women from the least advantaged backgrounds...

Emotional differences between the rich and poor, as depicted in such Charles Dickens classics as “A Christmas Carol” and “A Tale of Two Cities,” may have a scientific basis. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found that people in the lower socio-economic classes are more physiologically attuned to suffering, and quicker to express compassion than their more affluent counterparts. By comparison, the UC Berkeley study found that individuals in the upper...

Social class is more than just how much money you have. It's also the clothes you wear, the music you like, the school you go to"”and has a strong influence on how you interact with others, according to the authors of a new article in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. People from lower classes have fundamentally different ways of thinking about the world than people in upper classes"”a fact that should figure into debates...