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  • More Than a Million Low-Skilled Workers Just Got a Raise

    More Than a Million Low-Skilled Workers Just Got a Raise0

    Congress recently passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which temporarily lowers individual income taxes and permanently cuts corporate income taxes. This move has been celebrated by the business community with more than 125 companies announcing raises or bonuses for their employees. But no good deed goes unpunished. Critics have decried the tax cuts as

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  • More Seat Time Does Not a Good Education Make

    More Seat Time Does Not a Good Education Make0

    The OECD (the organization responsible for the international PISA exam) just released a new study on the state of international education. Among the report’s many charts is one which shows the number of hours students are in school. The U.S. ranks quite high with roughly 90,000 compulsory instruction hours. In other words, U.S. students spend

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  • More screening, or more married parents?

    More screening, or more married parents?0

    • August 7, 2015

    The News Story: New Recommendations for Depression Screening in Primary Care  The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is considering a new standard recommending that all adults be routinely screened for depression during visits to their primary care provider, according to a story released by the American Academy of Family Physicians. According to the AAFP,

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  • More Pushback Against Black Friday?

    More Pushback Against Black Friday?0

    In the last several years we’ve seen Black Friday sales start at 4 am Friday morning… then at midnight… then at 10pm on Thanksgiving… then at 6pm when most people are still trying to finish their turkey dinner.  But recent developments suggest that the pendulum might be swinging the other way. At the end of

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  • More Markets and Less Politics

    More Markets and Less Politics0

    Facebook is an excellent way to waste time. But it sometimes becomes a source of inspiration. Last week, I came across a post by economist Steve Horwitz in which he commented on a WSJ article about Israeli tech companies hiring Palestinian engineers due to a lack of qualified workers in the sector. In it, Horwitz

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  • More Gender Activists Than Medical Professionals on WHO Transgender Health Panel

    More Gender Activists Than Medical Professionals on WHO Transgender Health Panel0

    Last month, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it had formed a Guideline Development Group made up of 21 members tasked with writing WHO guidelines on “the health of trans and gender diverse people.” As a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health, WHO is looked to by most of

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