"Babson picks Kerry Healey as first female president; Ex-lieutenant governor to put politics behind" by Evan Allen | Globe Correspondent, March 25, 2013
Former Massachusetts lieutenant governor Kerry Healey was named the next president of Babson College on Sunday night, making her the first woman to lead the college since it was founded nearly 100 years ago.
Healey said she hopes to turn the small business school in Wellesley into a global institution by forging relationships with colleges around the world, and to work to make undergraduate education more affordable and accessible.
Healey, long a major player in the state and national Republican party, said she will step away from partisan politics and plans to resign her current position as the national committeewoman from Massachusetts on the Republican National Committee.
Her name was floated this year as a potential candidate for John F. Kerry’s Senate seat....
Babson officials said they were drawn by Healy’s solid resume as a businesswoman and a politician....
Healey served as lieutenant governor under Mitt Romney from 2003 to 2007 and mounted an unsuccessful campaign for governor in 2006, losing to Deval Patrick. From 2010 to 2012, she served as both domestic and foreign policy advisor to Romney’s presidential campaign....
Since leaving office in 2007, Healey has led a national effort to reduce child homelessness for the National Center on Family Homelessness, brought humanitarian aid to schools for the disabled in Cuba, and has trained female Afghan parliamentarians in Kabul for the International Republican Institute, according to a statement from the college.
In 2008, she was appointed by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as a founding member of the executive committee of the Department of State’s Public-Private Partnership for Justice Reform in Afghanistan, and she later founded a nonprofit to administer the partnership’s programs. Through the partnership, Healey works to promote the rule of law, human rights, women’s rights, and provide legal aid.
Anybody find it a bit disgusting that she was appointed by a war criminal to teach Afghan women justice when we invaded the place over lies, poisoned the place, left them dead in piles of rubble, and have tortured their citizens?
Related: AmeriKan Justice Arrives in Afghanistan
I'm sure we can teach 'em a whole lot.
She is co-chair of the Parity Project, a bipartisan effort to elect more women to state and federal offices....
Healey said her major focus will be on widening Babson’s sphere of influence....
Healey said she will also throw her weight into making a Babson education affordable....
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I didn't see any mention of a $alary in there.
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"Single-mother families struggling in Mass." by Katie Johnston | Globe Staff, March 21, 2013
An estimated three out of four female-headed households in Massachusetts don’t earn enough to pay bills and raise their children, according to a Boston nonprofit that is releasing a report Thursday on the income families require to meet their basic needs.
Healey and her husband aren't hurting.
In Massachusetts, a single parent with one school-age child and one preschooler needs to earn at least $65,880 a year to pay for food, housing, transportation, child care, health care, and other household expenses, Crittenton Women’s Union reports in its Massachusetts Economic Independence Index.
The difference between what people make and what it costs to support themselves is getting wider as costs go up, wages stagnate, and more jobs require higher levels of education and skills, according to Crittenton, a 189-year-old institution that conducts research to help low-income women gain financial independence.
This gap is not found only among single mothers: The organization estimates 4 of 10 two-parent households in the state do not bring in enough money to make ends meet.
Oh, so it is REALLY EVERYONE but the divisive, agenda-pushing Globe has to spin it as a women's rights issue.
“You get into what our families sometimes call the gerbil wheel,” said Elisabeth Babcock, president of Crittenton. “They’re working at low-paying jobs. Minimum wage doesn’t begin to cover the costs of supporting a family, and the only way they can earn enough is by getting more education.
I was wondering why I felt I wasn't getting anywhere.
Of course, banks are booming and the corporations are in an age of golden profits because of that gerbil wheel.
Time to face facts, America. Your economic and political system is nothing more than one big stealing scheme to transfer wealth to the already wealthy.
“But they don’t know how they can manage to do that when they’re already working and taking care of their kids.”
Crittenton, the largest women’s service organization in Massachusetts, has produced its triennial economic independence index since 2003. It includes an online calculator where people can enter their cities and ages of their children to see what they need to earn to cover expenses....
The Crittenton report echoes the findings of other reports. More than 10 million families in the United States — nearly a third of all working families — don't make enough to meet their basic needs, according to the Working Poor Families Project, a national initiative dedicated to workforce development policies. And the number of low-income families is on the rise, even as the economy sputters back to life.
Oh, now it's just a sputter. That in the face of the daily drumbeat of how the economy is getting better.
In Massachusetts, the gap between rich and poor is among the largest in the country.
What? In liberal, Democrat Massachusetts?
The state’s poverty rate is below the national average, but when regional living expenses are factored in, Massachusetts has the 10th-highest rate, according to the Center for Law and Social Policy.
The state’s transition from an industrial to a knowledge-based economy is one of the reasons more working families are struggling, according to the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center.
I'm so sick of that s*** reason and all other excuses being trotted out for a globalization policy that has brought about these very things. The factories didn't just get up and walk away by themselves; they were offshored and outsourced by a boardroom business decision.
Meanwhile, we are told that we need more immigrants to come in and do the high-tech jobs at the same time we are told we don't want to do the low-wage jobs.
But at least you can get training, right?
"Eve Weinbaum, director of the Labor Relations and Research Center at the University of Massachusetts, said most of the research shows that for the vast majority of low-wage workers ‘‘there is not much chance that job training will lead to better jobs and higher incomes, simply because the higher-paying jobs are not there.’’
Nice to know someone can confirm what I have been saying for years. What is not so nice is the endle$$ $hit $hovel by my paper.
A few decades ago, when manufacturing jobs were plentiful and unions were stronger, workers with just a high school diploma could find jobs that paid enough to support a family.
Yeah, thank God those horrible unions have been weakened.
Even six years ago, more than half of in-demand jobs that paid self-sustaining wages could be filled by workers with a high school diploma, according to Crittenton’s Hot Jobs list, which accompanies its economic independence index. Today, all these jobs require post-secondary education.
Even if it isn't needed. It's a good way to impose elitism, which is what this whole thing is about.
“There are openings, but many people don’t have the skills that are now required by these openings,” said Mary Sarris, executive director of the North Shore Workforce Investment Board in Salem. She noted that even jobs that require only a high school diploma, like machinists or electronic engineering technicians, are often filled by people with certificates or associate’s degrees.
Didn't I say something about that above?
Getting an education isn’t cheap. An adult with two young children who enrolls at a Massachusetts community college part time for four years will have to shell out $21,000 for tuition, child care, and transportation, according to the Crittenton index.
Yup, it's about PROPPING UP EDUCATION and CREATING a NEED, isn't it? With all the loan$ and $tudent debt you can $tomach!
And living expenses are skyrocketing.
After I'm told all the time in my news pages that inflation is no threat?
The cost of transportation shot up 40 percent in the past three years, mainly due to gasoline prices, according to Crittenton, and health care soared 21 percent....
Increasingly, poor working families seek assistance to get by. In Western Massachusetts, for instance, nearly one out of three families who visit food pantries have at least one employed adult, according to the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts, up from slightly more than one in four a decade ago....
Yeah, that's my neck of the woods. No obesity crisis out here.
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"More women now breadwinners for families; Cuts in predominantly male fields alter financial dynamics" by Katie Johnston | Globe Staff, February 19, 2013
Candace Keshwar of Jamaica Plain is among the many women who were thrust into the role of family breadwinner during the last recession, which hit men disproportionately hard as male-dominated industries such as construction and manufacturing sustained massive job losses....
I was told they had all come back.
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Related: The Boston Globe Writes About Me
At least you women have heroes:
"Gloria Steinem’s message about gender, then and now" by Beth Teitell | Globe Staff, March 21, 2013
Many of society’s most charged topics still revolve around challenges faced by women. Whether it is Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg and her new book urging working women to “Lean In,” or Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer’s ban on telecommuting, a decision that hits working mothers especially hard, or the culture’s interest in the complex lives of twentysomethings as portrayed in HBO’s “Girls,” the old issues linger.
For more on Sandberg go here.
As for Mayer: No going back for those working at home
Yahoo’s broken glass ceiling
Marissa Mayer is insulting our intelligence
Executive privilege: Marissa Mayer’s HR decisions at Yahoo
Also see: The $59 Million Dollar Mom
Where's the outrage now?
In fact, much of Gloria Steinem’s Watergate-era speech sounds as if it could be written today....
Steinem, a native of Toledo, Ohio, became a leader of the women’s liberation movement in the late 1960s and 1970s....
Related: Gloria Steinem and the CIA
Inside the CIA with Gloria Steinem
Yup, if you are celebrated by the agenda-pushing intelligence operation that passes as a newspaper you are part of it.
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Related: In Simmons College visit, Gloria Steinem says fight for equality goes on
You see where that was, right?
That the same Barbara Lee that voted against the war?
