Download or read book You Don t Always Get what You Pay for written by Elliott Sclar and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an assessment of the pros and cons of public sector privatization, Sclar (urban planning, Columbia U.), who is affiliated with the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, DC, warns that outsourcing services may not result in leaner US government. He examines alternatives and offers tips for public sector reform. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book You Get What You Pay For written by Morgan Parker and published by One World. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning author of Magical Negro traces the difficulty and beauty of existing as a Black woman through American history, from the foundational trauma of the slave trade all the way up to Serena Williams and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina “An engrossing journey through Parker’s expansive and gifted mind.”—Clint Smith, author of How the Word Is Passed Dubbed a voice of her generation, poet and writer Morgan Parker has spent much of her adulthood in therapy, trying to square the resonance of her writing with the alienation she feels in nearly every aspect of life, from her lifelong singleness to a battle with depression. She traces this loneliness to an inability to feel truly safe with others and a historic hyperawareness stemming from the effects of slavery. In a collection of essays as intimate as being in the room with Parker and her therapist, Parker examines America’s cultural history and relationship to Black Americans through the ages. She touches on such topics as the ubiquity of beauty standards that exclude Black women, the implications of Bill Cosby’s fall from grace in a culture predicated on acceptance through respectability, and the pitfalls of visibility as seen through the mischaracterizations of Serena Williams as alternately iconic and too ambitious. With piercing wit and incisive observations, You Get What You Pay For is ultimately a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness and its effects on mental well-being in America today. Weaving unflinching criticism with intimate anecdotes, this devastating memoir-in-essays paints a portrait of one Black woman’s psyche—and of the writer’s search to both tell the truth and deconstruct it.

Download or read book You Get What You Pay For written by Larry Beinhart and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tony unearths a corruption scandal linking the mafia to the inner circle of the president himselfIn New York, some tenants will do anything to land a rent-controlled apartment. Tony Cassella is investigating one such tenant—a man who’s defrauding his building owner. The case is interesting, but something even better is about to drop in the private investigator’s lap. Cassella has just landed a real estate case that could bring down the right hand man of the president of the United States. Rumors are swirling that the freshly appointed US attorney general used mob muscle to evict tenants from apartments he owns in the Bronx. After one of the attorney general’s alleged mafia contacts dies in an ugly gangland hit, Cassella finally has the thread tying the South Bronx real estate scam to Washington. But his search for the truth will land him squarely in the mob’s cross hairs—a deadly reminder of the evil some men will do to squeeze money from choice property. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Larry Beinhart including rare images from the author’s personal collection.

Download or read book You re Paid What You re Worth written by Jake Rosenfeld and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A myth-busting book challenges the idea that we’re paid according to objective criteria and places power and social conflict at the heart of economic analysis. Your pay depends on your productivity and occupation. If you earn roughly the same as others in your job, with the precise level determined by your performance, then you’re paid market value. And who can question something as objective and impersonal as the market? That, at least, is how many of us tend to think. But according to Jake Rosenfeld, we need to think again. Job performance and occupational characteristics do play a role in determining pay, but judgments of productivity and value are also highly subjective. What makes a lawyer more valuable than a teacher? How do you measure the output of a police officer, a professor, or a reporter? Why, in the past few decades, did CEOs suddenly become hundreds of times more valuable than their employees? The answers lie not in objective criteria but in battles over interests and ideals. In this contest four dynamics are paramount: power, inertia, mimicry, and demands for equity. Power struggles legitimize pay for particular jobs, and organizational inertia makes that pay seem natural. Mimicry encourages employers to do what peers are doing. And workers are on the lookout for practices that seem unfair. Rosenfeld shows us how these dynamics play out in real-world settings, drawing on cutting-edge economics, original survey data, and a journalistic eye for compelling stories and revealing details. At a time when unions and bargaining power are declining and inequality is rising, You’re Paid What You’re Worth is a crucial resource for understanding that most basic of social questions: Who gets what and why?

Download or read book How to Get Paid for What You Know written by Graham Cochrane and published by BenBella Books. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You may not know it, but you are sitting on a goldmine. Your knowledge, passions, and skills can be transformed into a lucrative income stream that requires no college degree, zero employees, and less than $50 to get started. Whether it takes shape as a full-fledged business, a side hustle, or automated earnings is up to you! Before you can monetize what you know, you’ll need to learn the dynamics of the knowledge economy. There’s no one better to teach you than Graham Cochrane—business coach, YouTuber, and founder of The Recording Revolution, a once no-name blog about music turned 7-figure business that requires fewer than 5 hours per week of work. With How to Get Paid for What You Know, he provides a proven 6-step system for turning your ideas, skills, and passions into an income stream that puts money in your bank account day and night, whether you’re working or not. In this book, you’ll learn how to: Discover your idea and ensure it will be profitable, Build an audience, Package your knowledge into a highly desirable digital product, Sell online in an authentic and ethical way, Leverage simple online tools to market your product, and Automate the entire process so that income flows to you even when you’re not working. Follow these steps and you’ll be well on your way to creating better stability in your income and finding more fulfillment in your work and, ultimately, your life. How to Get Paid for What You Know is your essential guide to a new and better way to make a living.

Download or read book What You Pay For written by Claire Askew and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM THE AUTHOR OF ALL THE HIDDEN TRUTHS, WHICH IS SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD AND WON THE MCILVANNEY DEBUT PRIZE ''(a) meticulous and compelling novel about the aftermath of a major crime and its effect on the affected families and investigating officers both. Set in Edinburgh, too'' - Ian Rankin ''Askew asks intricate moral questions, while never ignoring the rigours of crime'' - Daily Mail DI Helen Birch faces a terrible choice - family or justice? - in the gripping second novel from the author of All the Hidden Truths DI Birch joined the police to find her little brother, who walked out of his life one day and was never seen again. She stayed to help others, determined to seek justice where she could. On the fourteenth anniversary of Charlie''s disappearance, Birch takes part in a raid on one of Scotland''s most feared criminal organisations. It''s a good day''s work - a chance to get a dangerous man off the streets. Two days later, Charlie comes back. It''s not a coincidence. When Birch finds out exactly what he''s been doing all those years, she faces a terrible choice: save the case, or save her brother. But how can you do the right thing when all the consequences are bad? As she interrogates Charlie, he tells his story: of how one wrong turn leads to a world in which the normal rules no longer apply, and you do what you must to survive. From one of the most acclaimed new voices in crime fiction, What You Pay For is a brilliantly tense and moving novel about the terrible disruption caused by violence and the lines people will cross to protect those they love..

Download or read book Pay What It s Worth written by Tara Joyce and published by . This book was released on 2023-01-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if the customer determined the price they pay based upon the value they receive? How might that change things? Pay What It's Worth pricing is a system allowing for a different way of valuing the products, services, and experiences we have and exchange with others. Each of us has the power and ability to create our own economy, and approach to valuing products and services. In Pay What It's Worth: You Don't Need to Set a Price on Value, you'll explore the power and potential, as well as the pitfalls, of not setting prices. Mutually beneficial exchanges are possible and sustainable for you, as a business owner, and as a customer. Your integrity is your most valuable wealth creation tool.

Download or read book Pay written by Kevin F. Hallock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billions of people throughout the world are paid for their work. This book was written to explain why they earn what they earn and, in doing so, to help readers understand how they can earn more in both the short and long run. It describes wages, wage differences across groups, wage inequality, how organizations set pay and why, executive and 'superstar' pay, the difference between pay and 'total rewards' (including benefits, opportunities for growth, colleagues and working conditions), compensation in nonprofits, and the differences between the cost of compensation to organizations and the value employees place on that compensation. It also offers tips on what an individual can do to earn more.

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Download or read book Smoking Lovely written by Willie Perdomo and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smoking Lovely's explorations of poetry and the neoliberal city at the intersection of community and commodity. In this radically revised new edition, Perdomo shifts the poem into mostly second person, thereby further accentuating its self-reflexive and complex exploration of self-and/as-other, and of the simultaneous othering, commodification, and spectacularization of Afro-diasporic bodies and cultural forms.

Download or read book Part 35 written by John Nicholas Iannuzzi and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sandro Luca is a crusading young attorney with a family past that links him with the mob. Now the state wants him to defend two junkies who probably killed a cop. They’re as good as convicted already. The papers have seen to that. If Sandro is going to save them, he’s got to produce evidence that nobody thinks is there. And he’s got to be the best, toughest lawyer New York has ever seen.

Download or read book It written by Stephen King and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It: Chapter Two—now a major motion picture! Stephen King’s terrifying, classic #1 New York Times bestseller, “a landmark in American literature” (Chicago Sun-Times)—about seven adults who return to their hometown to confront a nightmare they had first stumbled on as teenagers…an evil without a name: It. Welcome to Derry, Maine. It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real. They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But the promise they made twenty-eight years ago calls them reunite in the same place where, as teenagers, they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city’s children. Now, children are being murdered again and their repressed memories of that terrifying summer return as they prepare to once again battle the monster lurking in Derry’s sewers. Readers of Stephen King know that Derry, Maine, is a place with a deep, dark hold on the author. It reappears in many of his books, including Bag of Bones, Hearts in Atlantis, and 11/22/63. But it all starts with It. “Stephen King’s most mature work” (St. Petersburg Times), “It will overwhelm you…to be read in a well-lit room only” (Los Angeles Times).

Download or read book A Sailor s Yarns and Observations written by Dean Nichols and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-06-27 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Nichols may be a crusty, old River Rat, but he is a real Christian. And he tells it like it is. Michael Sorace body shop owner and member of Christian bikers group, Sons of Thunder Dean Nichols writes in depth on the lofty principals of life, with emphasis on the quintessence of old and sacred traditions. Dr. Anthony Amendola Christian Psychologist In this man's writings, I found a kindred spirit. Bob Wagstaff School Principal and Creation Science teacher Mr. Nichols writes in the old traditions, the 'Spun yarns of old.' We relive some very important parts of our American heritage through these delightful, often profound stories. Sylvana Amendola Christian Counselor

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 2208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Real Business of Photography written by Richard Weisgrau and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This honest, tell-all guide is written by one of the best-known players of the media photography business. Drawing from decades of experience as a working photographer and industry leader, the author defies popular business myths and trend-driven behavior by providing a fresh, common-sense approach to running a photography business. The essentials of running a photography business are covered-from setting a strategic vision to managing finances.

Download or read book War Department Appropriation Bill for 1931 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 1458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: