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Category Archives: Blue Social Model
May 21, 2013
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Obama and Elizabeth Warren Feed the College Beast
College students may see their debt rise sharply overnight, as the interest rate for Stafford Loans is set to double to 6.8 percent on July 1st. Fortunately, students have some friends in high places: The Obama administration, House Republicans, and … Continue reading
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Interns: Starting Young
As college grads increasingly cling to any jobs they can get, high school students are being pushed into the internship market for their first encounters with the world of work. The Chicago Tribune reports: “Part-time jobs have become scarcer and … Continue reading
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Some People Don’t Need to Go to School
By now you’ve probably heard about Yahoo’s purchase of the social networking/publishing platform Tumblr for an eye-popping $1.1 billion, which made its founder David Karp about $265 million richer overnight. The 26 year old, whom Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer characterized as … Continue reading
May 20, 2013
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Private Schools Squeezed by Charter Competition
Teachers’ unions have been fighting a (mostly losing) battle against charter schools for nearly two decades, but the chief victims of the charter and voucher revolutions might not be public schools after all. Smaller private schools, including Catholic schools, face … Continue reading
May 19, 2013
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Israel’s Other Enemy: The Blue Social Model
Public employee unions have a new international villain to add to their growing list: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Bibi’s government is embarking on a fight to break the monopolizing power of Israel’s formidable port unions, the “gatekeepers for Israel’s … Continue reading
May 18, 2013
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DC’s PC Commissars Lose Touch With Common Sense
Asking a fellow student on a date may now get you kicked off a college campus. Following a year long investigation into the University of Montana’s handling of several sexual assault cases, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the … Continue reading
May 17, 2013
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Want to Be Happy? Get to Work
Retiring early can make you depressed and unhealthy, as well as poor, according to a new study by the Institute of Economic Affairs, a British think tank. The IEA looked at micro-level data from 11 countries on the physical and … Continue reading
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Illinois Road Fund Can’t Pay for Roads
Less than half the money exacted from Illinois taxpayers to pay for roads is actually used to pay for roads. The Illinois Auditor General has found that, of the $5.7 billion in the state’s road fund over the past two … Continue reading
May 16, 2013
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The Jobs Question: Work Is A Human Right
Pretty much everybody understands at some level that the question of jobs is at the heart of America’s politics today. An old world of stable, reasonably well paid jobs in manufacturing (stuff processing) and in corporate or government bureaucracies (information processing) is passing away. What comes next is up in the air, but as things stand we see growing insecurity, inequality and a darker outlook for youth.
The argument about how to address the jobs question is the single political issue that has the most to do with how the country will develop for the next twenty years. Political disputes over hot button social policy issues like gay marriage or affirmative action often get more attention, but underneath the noise it is the question of jobs that will shape the way our institutions and policies develop. After all, creating the best possible conditions for large numbers of Americans to make good livings and achieve their personal goals engages the electorate’s attention year in and year out. Scandals and controversies come and go, even long wars come to an end sometime, but in times like ours when people aren’t sure that the economy will allow them to make a good living, the job question never really goes away. Continue reading
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If You Read One Thing about MOOCs This Week…
…make it this excellent and refreshingly evenhanded New Yorker piece by Nathan Heller. It traces the rise of MOOCs at Harvard while carefully examining their many pros and cons, how they fit into the broader higher ed landscape, the roots of cost … Continue reading
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Ain’t Nuthin’ But a College Thang
World-renowned music moguls and entrepreneurs Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine are getting into another business: higher education. The rapper and producer made a $70 million donation to the University of Southern California to create a degree “that blends business, marketing, … Continue reading
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‘Bulgarian Fraud’ Threatens the EU Welfare State?
There’s a scandal brewing in the Netherlands that could weaken support for the European welfare state. A well-organized crime ring in Bulgaria has been rounding up villagers and putting them on buses to Rotterdam. When they arrive there, they are … Continue reading
May 15, 2013
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Georgia Tech Takes MOOCs to the Next Level
Georgia Tech announced yesterday that it is teaming up with Udacity, one of the leading providers of massively open online education, to offer a full graduate program in computer science. For a mere $7,000 dollars—or 1/6 the cost of the equivalent program … Continue reading
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Christie to Bond Investors: Don’t Trust My IOUs
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is sending an unusual message to investors: His state’s bonds may be no good. NJ.com reports that potential investors have been informed that in the future New Jersey may not make its required pension payments, … Continue reading
May 14, 2013
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Obamacare Kicks Young Men While They’re Down
Young men will be the biggest losers in the transition to Obamacare, according to a new report by the actuarial and consulting firm Milliman. The report estimates that males as a whole will see an 11 percent increase in insurance premiums, while females as … Continue reading
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