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  • What’s Driving the Ballooning Support Staff in Public Schools?

    What’s Driving the Ballooning Support Staff in Public Schools?0

    In the animated graphic below, University of Michigan economics professor Mark Perry charts the ballooning nature of public school staff, students, and spending since 1970. As Perry explains, the student population has increased by 10 percent in the last 50 years. The number of teachers has increased by nearly 60 percent in that same period.

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  • What’s Behind The WHO’s Lockdown Mixed-Messaging

    What’s Behind The WHO’s Lockdown Mixed-Messaging0

    Last week, in a major departure from months of pro-lockdown messaging, Britain’s envoy to the WHO Dr. David Nabarro called for world leaders to stop locking down their countries and economies as a “primary method” of controlling COVID19. “I want to say it again: we in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as

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  • What’s Behind the Explosion of Pet Costumes?

    What’s Behind the Explosion of Pet Costumes?0

    I did a double take reading a headline on The Conversation the other day. It appears that pets plus Halloween makes for a lucrative enterprise: Americans are expected to spend US $8.8 billion on candy, costumes and decorations this year – or $86 for every person who plans to celebrate. That includes a half a

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  • What’s Behind the Exodus of Black Students from Public Schools?

    What’s Behind the Exodus of Black Students from Public Schools?0

    For a number of years, public education has been of utmost importance to those in the black community. This is partially because black access to equal public education was a hard-won victory procured by the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. But lately, black families appear to be questioning whether public schooling is

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  • What’s Behind the ‘Sex Recession’?

    What’s Behind the ‘Sex Recession’?0

    In spite of the fact that we are living today in a sex-saturated cultural environment, recent studies surprisingly report that sexual relations between men and women are declining. “In 2018, the share of Americans who said they didn’t have sex for an entire year was the highest on record.” This statistic includes both single individuals and

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  • What’s America To Do With a Weaponized Intelligence Community?

    What’s America To Do With a Weaponized Intelligence Community?6

    The Intelligence Community of the United States of America has been weaponized against the incumbent leader’s political opposition, having even turned the spy agencies of our closest allies against the leading Republican candidate. This is the inescapable conclusion to be drawn if a bombshell report released last week is accurate. Relying on “multiple credible witnesses,”

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