Is South America Moving Beyond Machismo? Survey results reflect women's gains in the home, workplace.
Byline: Jesus Rios and Steve Crabtree Synopsis: Gallup Polls from South America reveal attitudes that do not fit neatly into the conception of a male-dominated Latin American society. Two-thirds of men and women across nine countries say the number of househusbands in their countries has increased. Further,...

India not happy enough: Survey.
MUMBAI: "This part of my life... this part right here? This is called 'happyness'," Will Smith famously said after he got a job as a broker at the fag end of the Hollywood flick 'The Pursuit of Happyness'. The movie is about Smith's heart-rending struggles to land a decent...

First Nation forestry accords not yet a relationship of equals.
Six years ago, anyone who said that British Columbia's Liberal government would try to forge a "new relationship" with First Nations would have been laughed out of the room. Yet that is precisely what has happened. Though they began by opposing the Nisga'a treaty and unabashedly aligning...

Squabbling over the ADA: fifteen years after the implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the courts and employers are still at odds over how the law should be applied in the workplace. Thus far, the only certainty is that there are no hard-and-fast rules when it comes to the ADA.
Summary * Managing employees with disabilities is far less costly than one might think. * Recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings and rulings by lower courts are expanding the definition of a disabled person. * After 17 years of the Americans with Disabilities Act,...

Sick of too much government? Just wait.
ITEM: Anchorman Charles Gibson on ABC's World News on February 22 teased an upcoming report by noting the "surprising number of workers who have no paid sick days." He then asked: "Will Congress finally expand sick pay to everyone?" Reporter Betsy Stark, in her report, cited a woman named...

PMI's Winter 2007 Risk Index Reflects Slowing Housing Market.
WALNUT CREEK, Calif., Jan. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Continued deceleration in home price appreciation and decreased affordability caused the risk of home price declines to rise in cities across the country, PMI Mortgage Insurance Co., the U.S. subsidiary of The PMI Group, Inc. reported today. Economic fundamentals remain strong in...

New Study on Automated Benefits Management Finds HRIS Key to Reducing Costs and Attracting & Retaining Candidates;.
Aberdeen Group Benchmark Finds Best of Class Organizations Embracing Automated Solutions to Optimize Benefit Costs, Communicate Greater Range of Benefit Choices and Reduce Routine Administrative Tasks WILMINGTON, Mass., Feb. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a new benchmark study from Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks company, Best in Class...

Radian Declares Regular Quarterly Dividend on Common Stock.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Radian Group Inc. announced today that the company's Board of Directors approved a regular quarterly dividend on its common stock in the amount of $0.02 per share, payable on March 19, 2007, to stockholders of record as of February 16, 2007. Radian...

Recent C.D. Howe Institute Publications.
January 2007 Payne, A. Abigail and Huizi Zhao. "Uncharitable Treatment? Why Donations to Private and Public Foundations Deserve Equal Tax Status." C.D. Howe Institute e-brief. December 2006 Kitchen, Harry. A State of Disrepair: How to Fix the Financing of Municipal Infrastructure in Canada. C.D. Howe Institute Commentary 241. Decembre...

Poor flow of funds to poverty schemes.
Byline: Rajat Guha & Rajeev Jayaswal NEW DELHI: Eradication of poverty, a prime focus for the UPA government, seems to have been given the short shrift. Housing and poverty alleviation minister Kumari Selja has expressed concern over shrinking funds for urban poverty alleviation at the cost of...