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...many other women - wives of the 4.2 million men who have been laid off since the recession began. In fact, according to recent data, it is likely that more than 2 million American women are married to someone who has been handed a pink slip during this recession. Compare that to the approximately 1.4 million women who have lost a job, and it appears that the majority of women may be experiencing our Great Recession's mass job losses not as a laid-off worker but as the spouse of one. And while a lot of attention has been paid...
Wives who are currently working have a bit more control over their financial fate, but not much. While many wives may want to work more, that can be near impossible in a recession. And in fact, according to BLS data released last week, not only are married women now working fewer hours per week on average than before the recession began, but also married women's working hours are at their lowest point since 1964, the year these numbers started being tracked...
...call their project a "loving" one, spurred by the fact that Leitenberg's family contacted her Facebook friends. Both are quick to say their relatives are not the problem - Brooks Adickman says her parents aren't even "allowed" to join Facebook - but they recognized that others might not be so fortunate. "No matter how embarrassing your mom is, there's someone who's a thousand times worse," Leitenberg says...
Those with low self-esteem - precisely the kind of people who do not respond well to positive feedback but tend to read self-help books or attend therapy sessions encouraging positive thinking - didn't feel better after those 16 bursts of self-affirmation. In fact, their self-evaluations and moods were significantly more negative than those of the people not asked to remind themselves of their lovability. (See pictures of couples in love...
...It’s not a mandate I presume to have fulfilled—in fact, it’s one I have flouted on more occasions than I like to admit. But he has entrusted me with this task, and I delight in the weight of its importance. That’s when I know that the past is not so lost. That’s when I know that he has fixed me—that we can only be whole because we break for each other...