Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-10-2010

[andrewducker]

• Job references for women are (unconciously) written in ways that make it harder for them to get jobs.
  (tags: jobs work women society)
• Girls who have disrupted childhoods get pregnant younger, study suggests
  (tags: children childhood parenting)
• Read The Tea Party Children's Book About How Obama Stole Christmas. No, Really.
  (tags: politics)
• Senator-Elect Rand Paul Breaks Tea Party Pledge, Now Vows To ‘Fight’ For Earmarks
  (tags: usa politics hypocrisy)
• From Aggregate levies to women's sanitary products - a complete list of all tax loopholes in the UK
  (tags: tax uk law)

Comments

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

The chidren's book is... ugh... words fail me, they really do.

[pete stevens (from livejournal.com)]

I refused to read the Tea Party article, the second paragraph gives us a completely unnecessary and vicious ad-hominem attack.

[drplokta]

That's a list of tax exemptions, not loopholes. Loopholes are more like the fact that capital gains and unearned income are taxed at lower rates than earned income, so that it's advantageous to arrange your tax affairs so that your income looks like one of the former, and not the latter.

[andrewducker]

I figured that was fairly obvious from the article - and it's why I put in "women's sanitary products", which I believe most people agree should be exempt from tax. I figured most people would work it out from that. I guess I shouldn't be aiming for subtle humour on the internets :->

[cairmen.livejournal.com]

The article on job references is really useful, thanks.

(Useful in that a) I can check I'm not doing that in references I write, and b) in that if I'm aware of my likely selection bias in references, it'll increase my chances of picking out great employees. )

Sharing.

[cairmen.livejournal.com]

The usual caveats apply, of course. F'r example, I'm very, very aware of the power of communication in team-building, and very focussed on morale in general as a manager, so frankly I'm more likely to hire someone described as "helpful" over someone described as "forceful".

[andrewducker]

Glad it's handy. It's fascinating how little, unconscious, things can make a difference.

[autodidactic.livejournal.com]

Pregnancy happening in girls with disrupted childhoods? A-yup.