Simma encourages municipalities to do a better job at fighting hate crimes

By | Florida, hate crimes, legislation, Orlando Sentinel, quotes

The Orlando Sentinel recently quoted Simma in an editorial arguing that Florida and many other states aren’t doing enough to combat a rise in hate crimes. According to the piece, the number of hate groups in the United States (926) jumped 4 percent last year and is up over 50 percent in the last decade. In the quote, Simma made…

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Diversity Question: Are Liberal Women Less Attractive Than Conservative Women?

By | Diversity, diversity and inclusion

Conservative women are more attractive than liberal women who are angry and bad dressers. I couldn’t believe that this was a topic on a conservative radio show today. A caller to the show “Ask the Rabbi,” or something like that with Rabbi Lapin on KSFO made that observation. I’d never listened to the show but as I changing channels, I…

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Stop Stress From Bankrupting Your Life!

By | diversity and inclusion, economic stress, life balance, productivity, relaxation, self-care, stress in the workplace, stress management

Stop Stress Related Bankruptcy 300 Billion Dollars a Year! According to the American Psychological Association that is what stress is costing businesses in the USA Be it loss of productivity, absenteeism, turnover or increased medical costs, stress is clearly expensive to organizations. What’s more, stress is costly to individuals. This same study by the APA shows that 80% of Americans…

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Laughing at the Generations- age old stereotypes

By | generation differences, Simma Lieberman, workforce diversity

On Friday I facilitated a program entitled, “Generations and Beyond,” for Out and Equal, which explored the intersections of generations, gender, sexual orientation and ethnicity. During my presentation I talked about the fact that a lot of what we hear about each generation are stereotypes and that there are people in their 70’s who are techies and that there are…

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Neglected to vote, but wants to govern

By | Uncategorized

Meg Whitman wants to run for governor, and fix CA but she has neglected to vote many time according to Channel 2 News.I don’t understand how someone who has chosen not to participate in the electoral process wants to run the state. Perhaps we wouldn’t be in such a mess if more people had chosen to get involved instead. She…

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