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MIT Living Wage Calculator Points to Income Gap

The MIT Living Wage Calculator shows the gap between wages and a modest cost of living. Click to enlarge.

Data from the MIT Living Wage Calculator show the gap between the cost of living modestly in the US and the minimum and poverty wage rates. Amy Glasmeier, MIT professor of economic geography and regional planning, began developing the calculator a decade ago while studying the causes of recurrent poverty. Besides contributing data to discussions on raising the minimum wage, the tool and Glasmeier's comments in Slice of MIT illustrate how higher wages could help everybody. Check out the living wage in your area adjustable by family size, location, and local estimates of food, housing, and other necessities.

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World's Top Innovators
13 MIT alumni—all under 30 years old—honored by Forbes.

Invisible Coral Flows
Video microscopy image of water movement wins international contest for science images.

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Research & Discovery

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Tapping the Sun's Energy through Heat and Light

A new approach to harvesting solar energy, which captures wavelengths of light that ordinarily go to waste, could generate power from sunlight more efficiently and on demand, say MIT researchers. The energy is easier to store too.

Physicists Develop a New Transparent Display System

A new see-through screen, which could show images on windshields, windows, or glasses, has been created by applying a thin plastic coating on ordinary glass. The secret: nanoparticles embedded in the transparent material.

When the Job Search Becomes a Blame Game

An MIT professor's book explores how white-collar job hunters in the US blame themselves unnecessarily—and suffer as a result—when they cannot find work. The book compares job seekers in the US and Israel.

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Alumni Bring Big Data to the NBA

Sports team owners like Vivek Ranadivé '79, SM '80, who acquired a controlling share in the Sacramento Kings in May 2013, consider any metrics that can promote a team's brand around the world.

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Media Lab Alumni Boost RFID for Supply Chain Use

ThingMagic, founded by five MIT alumni in 2000, helped bring radio-frequency identification technology to the supply chain. The company's breakthrough was developing RFID readers that could read multiple tags simultaneously from greater distances.

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Herding Robots
A new system enables fleets of robots to collaborate in unprecedented ways.

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Expanding Vision
A new scanning technique shows where the brain processes visual information.

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Health Science

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Wireless Cochlear Implants Need No Exterior Hardware

A cochlear implant that can be wirelessly recharged would use the natural microphone of the middle ear rather than a skull-mounted sensor.

MIT Robot May Accelerate Trials for Stroke Medications

Using the robot MIT-Manus, researchers created an artificial neural network map that can help reduce time and cost of Phase III drug trials by 70 percent.

Improving Diagnosis and Treatment of Endometriosis

Work at MIT's Center for Gynepathology Research has identified immune system-signaling molecules and cellular activity that could be used in individualized treatment plans.

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What's Next for the Affordable Care Act Rollout?

MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber '87, a health-care expert who helped develop Massachusetts and national health-care programs, describes the three key mileposts the national plan will face in 2014.

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Slice of MIT

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Alumnus Pens an American History—of Squirrels
Squirrels are not urban natives. Etienne Benson PhD '08 points out in a recent Journal of American History issue that squirrels came to cities by invitation.

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Learn about MIT Alumni in the Olympics
To enhance your Olympics enjoyment, Slice of MIT offers a series of posts on alumni participants, beginning with A Brief History.

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49 Reasons Why the Universe Is Beautiful
Enjoy photos and videos that celebrate the beauty of the universe, drawn from student and alumni creators shown in MIT's recent Art of Astrophysics gallery exhibit.

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