The New America foundation has released a study of graduate and professional school debt, which features a bunch of interesting information. Unlike most reports regarding such debt, New America's survey includes survey estimates of actual educational debt totals, not merely how much graduate and professional school...
Terrific reporting from Dara Lind here.
This is a guest post from Steven Attewell. You may have heard he has a new book out. So this filled me with an instant rage this morning; works better.
Glad to see Maryland following Connecticut in creating a $10.10 minimum wage. That's still too low but it's a nice jump. It also continues to build a real red state-blue state divide in wages and I wonder how big that gap will become.
This is insane. The Pentagon has developed the MOP bomb specifically for destroying hardened targets. It can penetrate as deeply as 200 feet underground before detonating, more than enough capability.
While Quebec secessionist has some progressive elements, it also has a seemingly ineluctable background of ethnic nationalism. After the narrow defeat of the last secession referendum, the secessionist premier of.
Today is Equal Pay Day. Pay equality has still never been achieved in this country. Some facts, thanks to the National Women's Law Center: On average, women are paid only 77 cents for every dollar paid to their male counterparts.For women of color, the gap is...
So Ezra Klein's big lead-off article at Vox was, well, strange. Not that I disagree with all of it, although there is way too much both sides do it in.
And here are our final standings for the 2014 LGM Tourney Challenge: RANK BRACKET, OWNER R64 R32 S16 E8 F4 NCG CHAMPION TOTAL PCT 1 Lexington Bearded Ducksfarls0 260.
Not at all surprising that employee wellness program shifts responsibility for unhealthy workplaces off of the employer and onto the employee: “Many of the individual behaviors you are focusing on in your health and wellness programs [such as] stop smoking, eat better, exercise more, are in...
Credit where credit is due -- Glenn Reynolds has repented and finally has a reasonable take on the Brendan Eich resignation: Meanwhile some people are muttering darkly of "blacklists" because.
If there's one thing we know to be true about Republicans, it's that they are never hypocritical on sexual issues. They always live up to their Christian faith and they.