How do You Choose an Online Degree for Your Next Job?

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With over a 1,000 online degree programs, the ability to cut through the noise and find quality programs among the chaff is an added barrier for jobless Americans. How would you choose an online degree?

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Internships and Robo-scribes.

Form and Content: Can artists use the internet to benefit their career?

Only two-thirds of artists receive any type of payment for their art work (Pew  2004). In an economy where artists are out of work twice as often as the rest of the workforce, what are the solutions to remedy this problem?

The Unpaid Internship: Good Experience or Bad Idea?

As more and more college graduates face unemployment, they are willing to take unpaid internships in the hopes of jumpstarting their careers. Are these internships giving them a leg up or just allowing companies to exploit people for free labor? 

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Robot reporters write finance, sports articles: are you worried?

Journalists: Are you worried that robot reporters will put you out of work?

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It’s Babies Versus Jobs

Some American women feel more traditional pressures of having children while others feel a 21st century pressure of landing an impressive career. Can they have the best of both worlds?

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