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Your First Job: Real Costs of the Minimum Wage 0
- Economics
- September 28, 2018
With midterm elections approaching, ideological battlegrounds are being staked out — and few carry greater promise of enticing voters than minimum wage policy. Recent political developments in this area include repurposing the minimum wage as a “living wage”, conflating and popularizing the notion of a “Universal Basic Income”, and a “corporations can afford it”/”fight for $15” narrative. The latter is the
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Does the Senate Think Americans Are Stupid? The Kavanaugh Hearings Suggest the Answer is Yes.0
- Politics
- September 27, 2018
There’s a problem with the latest of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s alleged sexual assaults during his high school years. Julie Swetnik claims that Kavanaugh and other young men attended parties in high school where they filled the punch bowl with drugs or alcohol, and then lined up to rape girls who had become too intoxicated
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4 Reasons More Young People Should Consider Buying Starter Homes 1
- Culture
- September 27, 2018
Discussing what millennials are or aren’t doing in the real estate market is almost a cliché at this point. Nonetheless, interpreting homebuying trends is a vital component of understanding economic success. Whether you live in the United States or Australia—where the issue is equally prevalent—young people are either uninterested in homeownership or unable to afford
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Affirm Transgender Kids, Says American Academy of Pediatrics 0
- Culture
- September 27, 2018
Transgender children should be affirmed by their doctors, their families and society, says the American Academy of Pediatrics in an official policy statement. The AAP’s policy is to validate all “gender identities” in children without questioning them. It ignores the possibility of children being temporarily or pathologically confused. However, it acknowledges at a number of points
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Cosby, Kavanaugh, and the Necessity of Evidence 0
- Politics
- September 27, 2018
Recently, the judge in Bill Cosby’s trial handed down a three- to 10-year sentence, which means Cosby could potentially die in jail. In my mind, there is little, if any, doubt that he drugged and abused those women. I don’t understand it, but it’s clear that giving women quaaludes 30 and 40 years ago was
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A Former English Professor Explains Why She Homeschools Her Children 0
- Culture
- September 27, 2018
Twenty years ago, Rosaria Champagne Butterfield was an up-and-coming professor of English literature at Syracuse University. While specializing in Critical Theory, she also headed up Syracuse’s Center for Women’s Studies. Through various events, however, Ms. Butterfield left her position at Syracuse and eventually began homeschooling her own children, all of whom are adopted. Given her
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Your First Job: Real Costs of the Minimum Wage 0