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Since the Great Recession, most of the nation’s rural counties have struggled to recover lost jobs and retain their people. The story is markedly different in the nation’s largest urban communities. I’m writing from Iowa, where every four years presidential hopefuls swoop in to test how voters might respond to their various ideas for fixing
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Millennials are revolutionizing the economy, introducing new ways of doing business into the market, which is helping the unemployed and underemployed pay their bills. But despite their contribution, millennials are also drowning in debt — failing to pay off their student and auto loans. Despite this reality, if you ask millennials today whether they’ll ever
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A paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that those who consider their spouse to be their best friend are twice as satisfied with their lives overall. The study controls for pre-marital well-being levels, age, gender, income, and health status. What is a best friend? Foremost, Melanie Curtin opines, “a best friend
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Almost immediately, the tragic shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon was being used as a means to reignite the debate on gun control in the U.S. I’m not someone who closely follows the nuances of the gun control debate, which is probably why the following statistic escaped my attention until someone casually mentioned it
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The Republican Party has been shamelessly embracing blacks on the sole criteria that they embrace capitalism and rehash stale talking points crediting dead Democrats for starting the Ku Klux Klan. Such overtures are acceptable to many, however, because the modern Republican Party rarely articulates a conservative message. The party does excel at something, however, namely,
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Every year it seems there is some new “War on Christmas” incident in the schools. One of the most recent examples occurred in a New York public school: “New principal Eujin Jaela Kim has given PS 169 in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, a politically correct scrub-down, to the dismay of teachers and parents. ‘We definitely can’t
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