Thanks to my fellow career blogger, Anita Bruzzese, for calling my attention to the important issue of the unemployment and underemployment of recently-discharged Iraq war veterans.   When a person joins the military, says the website HireAHero.com, there is a promise made.  This promise is either explicit or implied that, if you serve ...

In an article in Worthwhile Magazine, Rebecca Ryan calls Bowling Alone author Robert Putnam on the carpet for arguing that our stock of social capital – the very fabric of our connections with each other – is plummeting by the minute.  According to Putnam, today’s twenty and thirty-somethings are big-time loners, as evidenced by the fact that ...