Tag: Connecticut

Child Labor: Helping Dad or Taking Jobs From Adults?

By Erik Loomis

In General

On July 13, 2016

Upon reading this, you might think it’s nice that a son is helping his father doing his construction labor over the summer. But then you realize that this sort of thing is the root of how child labor get established and that it takes work away from law-abiding contractors. A day after a 13-year-old boy […]

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Today in Quality Policing

By Erik Loomis

On November 8, 2015

It’s hard to see how this could have gone wrong: Lock your doors or learn your lesson, that’s the message from New Haven police. Officers in East Rock are starting a pilot program. “Cars wil

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Dannel Malloy’s Attack on Faculty Unions

By Erik Loomis

On October 17, 2015

I always thought Connecticut governor Dannel Malloy was pretty decent, but this attack on the faculty union at Connecticut State University is pretty disturbing. “In a stark reminder that action spe

Labor History in the Classroom

By Erik Loomis

In General

On May 19, 2015

Above: Strikers in Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1949 While right-wing states are freaking out about the new AP standards (never mind that this year’s AP US History DBQ was on the rise of the conservative movement), Connecticut has now passed a bill encouraging the teaching of labor history in the state’s classrooms, albeit with a caveat to […]

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Most Prominent Politicians (V): Connecticut

By Erik Loomis

On June 12, 2011

Like New Jersey, Connecticut has suffered some from being surrounded by more prominent neighbors (in this case, New York and Massachusetts). Nonetheless, if we expand the notion of traditional politic