Despite unemployment hitting a 17-year low, six million jobs remain unfilled across the US. Employers are blaming the opioid epidemic, skills shortages and the federal crackdown on immigration for contributing to labor shortages and waning workforce participation heading into 2018.
Although still a relatively small job market, bitcoin- and blockchain-related jobs posted on LinkedIn increased by about 306% from November 2016 to November 2017 as bitcoin's value rose, reports Lucinda Shen. Coinbase, which now has about 200 employees, has doubled in size in the past year.
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Outreach workers and case managers who aid homeless people in Hawaii often face financial distress themselves, as their salaries fall just shy of what the federal government considers "very low income" for Honolulu. "I'm a paycheck away from being homeless just like a lot of people that I work with," said outreach worker Jean Mooney.
It's thought the #metoo movement, and the scandals that led to it, will result in more businesswomen assuming positions of power, but it may also have negative repercussions, like male superiors feeling uncomfortable including female employees in social events, writes Jena McGregor. In addition, she writes that women promoted into leadership roles may be expected to police company culture by themselves.
A pair of Hawaii men that have been friends for 60 years found out recently that they are brothers. Alan Robinson was adopted and Walter Macfarlane was unaware who his father was, but a DNA test showed they share a common birth mother.
