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NPR put together these neat graphics and accompanying article showing what America does for work.

One personal point of interest is that the things that MOST Americans are doing aren’t the loudest and most spotlighted. Government jobs, for instance, aren’t generally given the same respect and limelight that financial activities jobs get. I am not attempting to make any deeper point here other than as a country, we may want to widen our public discourse perspective to be inclusive of the background of most of the working population. Democracy style.

New website alert! Done.com

You find screened, skilled neighbors to help with tasks - grocery shopping, babysitting, fixing things, party planning, etc. - and then hire them. Once a task is complete, a task is also done for a child in need (sponsored by Unicef). I also love Done.’s values statement, which includes such items as assuming good intentions and judging themselves not against the status quo, but against the immense opportunity and vision before them.

I am definitely looking forward to using done.com in some capacity and sharing it with others; let’s help it grow! Nothing like a society where we share skills with neighbors to build positive communities!

OUR TIME translates the news

  • 41% of Americans believe that young adults have been hit the hardest by the recession.

  • Only a third of 18-34 year olds rate their financial situation as “excellent” or “good.”

  • Young adults working full time have median weekly earnings of $448, about 6 percent less than in 2007.

Why we should care: The prospects for our generation appear bleak, with income declining, high joblessness, and significant debt from credit cards and college. Even older generations agree that we’ve been dealt a lousy deck of cards.

(via today’s Translation)

OUR TIME uses, facts, brevity, and wit to summarize current events and news in ways that provoke dialogue and potentially catalyze action. It’s going to be the next big thing; I’m calling it now. Join the movement!

Stephen Ritz is a South Bronx teacher/administrator.  With the help of extended student and community family they have grown over 25,000 pounds of vegetables in the Bronx while generating extraordinary academic performance. His Bronx classroom features the first indoor edible wall in NYC DOE which routinely generates enough produce to feed 450 students healthy meals and trains the youngest nationally certified workforce in America.  Stephen has consistently moved attendance from 40% to 93% daily, helped fund/create 2,200 youth jobs, captured the US EPA Award for transforming mindsets and landscapes in NYC, recently won the ABC Above and Beyond Award, helped earn his school the first ever Citywide Award of Excellence from the NYC Strategic Alliance for Health and attributes these results directly to growing vegetables in school.

This is seriously so cool. I’m thrilled to see such innovative teaching and learning happening around food in classrooms.

(Source: tedxmanhattan.org)

I’ve narrowed my career ideas! I have no interest in polar bear dentistry, as cool as it looks. View high resolution

I’ve narrowed my career ideas! I have no interest in polar bear dentistry, as cool as it looks.