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Boston.com posted a slideshow of food festivals for the season. It may be warm today, but that crisp fall air is coming back, and nothing tastes better in the cool air than apple cider donuts, right? Or is it chili? Or chowder? Well, whatever your fav, check out the listings here:
http://www.boston.com/travel/explorene/specials/foliage/galleries/fall_food_festivals/?p1=News_links
This Monday, the Fenway Alliance is putting on the 10th anniversary of Opening Our Doors, an awesome all-ages event where the cultural institutions of the neighborhood open up and put on all kinds of little shows and tours and whatnot. There’s an indoor kite flying workshop for one, and what sounds like an awesome contemporary Mexican exhibition at the School of the MFA. We’re always looking for some good free fun…here it is, just waiting for us.
Here’s the event landing page:
http://www.fenwayculture.org/
In the spirit of Columbus, go forth and uncover some new cultural territory for yourself! (Maybe leave the influenza at home though.)
If you caught the news in between the stories of Michael Vick’s concussion and the mass outrage over facebook’s news feed change, you might have heard that THE NUMBER OF AMERICANS LIVING IN POVERTY HAS REACHED AN ALL-TIME HIGH. As young invincibles, we might be inclined to wave off this sad state of affairs as having nothing to do with us, but that’d be a mistake.
Published in Slate on Wednesday was an illuminating Eliot Spitzer article that explains the disproportionate impact our nation’s slow economic growth is having on our generation and the ramifications of that for everybody else. With income data fresh from the 2010 Census, the results are unsettling. Here are a few noteworthy highlights for your digestion:
> Income for households headed by someone under 24 fell an astounding 15.3 percent between 2007 and 2010.
> For those 18 to 24 the poverty rate is 21.9 percent.
> The stated unemployment rate for whites aged 16 to 19 is 23 percent, and for blacks of that age it is a staggering 46.5 percent.
Spitzer concludes: “We are facing a moral dilemma. We have actually done a reasonably effective job preserving the income of seniors. Medicare and Social Security have worked, future financing issues notwithstanding. But we are failing abysmally in investing in the next generation. How can we do both in a financially viable manner?”
He asserts: “If we resolve the current fiscal crisis by cutting more deeply the investments we need to make in the young, we will be making a grave error. This makes it more urgent that the administration do something dramatic on the jobs front…It is time for the president to channel Franklin Roosevelt, to create modern versions of the CCC and WPA for those under 25—not an entitlement program, a work program.”
Ruminate, discuss with friends, post in the comments if you’re feeling bold–What would we want such a program to look like?
There are so many networking opportunities out there, but it can be tough to know what you’re gonna get. Take control of your box of chocolates, and check out a Boston World Partnerships event!
Boston World Partnerships is a non-profit organization, created by Mayor Menino to raise global awareness of Boston as one of the world’s foremost centers of intellectual capital and innovation, offering tremendous competitive advantages to growth-minded businesses. Needless to say, there are some pretty cool Bostonians involved.
Lucky for you, there’s a mixer coming up on Tuesday, September 20, at the Hyatt Regency starting at 6pm. Details for that event and others on the BWP calendar can be found here:
http://www.bostonworldpartnerships.com/events/.
And check out the rest of the website for other great professional development opportunities as well.
