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Dilapidated Schools and Race

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On December 11, 2015
Kids in Dallas are staging walkouts over the terrible conditions of their schools. About 250 students at South Oak Cliff High School walked out Monday to protest leaky roofs, unbearably hot or cold classrooms and other problems they say make learning difficult. "We have been...
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Television

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On December 10, 2015
Back in June, I asked people what show I should watch. After some consideration, I briefly started watching Orange is the New Black, which I found basically fine but never got super into. I've watched 7 or 8 episodes at this point. I may well...
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Job Retraining

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On December 9, 2015
This is an interesting piece on job retraining program, using Appalachian coal miners as an example. The reality is that job retraining programs are usually disastrous because there aren't actually decent paying jobs in the places these people live. Yet politicians love them because it...

Job Sprawl

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On December 9, 2015

We spend a good bit of time talking about suburbia and the deleterious effects of housing sprawl here, but job sprawl is another issue worth noting. The building of large.

Inversions

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On December 8, 2015

The issue of corporate inversions, where American companies buy a foreign firm and shift its official base to that country for tax purposes while remaining as American as ever in.

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