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How Many Lawmakers Advocating $15 Minimum Wage Hire Unpaid Interns?0
- Culture
- July 10, 2017
Almost all of the lawmakers who co-sponsored a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour also hired unpaid interns to supplement their staffs, a survey shows. A report from the Employment Policies Institute reveals that 174 of the bill’s 184 co-sponsors, or 95 percent, hire interns who are paid nothing. “It’s hypocritical to
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Goats Are Doing Our Job, Says Union 0
- Economics
- July 10, 2017
Great moments in public employee unionism, as recorded in the Battle Creek (Mich.) Enquirer: A battle is brewing at Western Michigan University this summer between a group of hungry goats and a labor union. The 400-member American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees has filed a grievance contending that the work the goats are doing in a
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Why We Should Allow Boys to Fight 1
- Culture
- July 10, 2017
If you ever watched the old “Road to Avonlea” TV series, you may recall the episode in which a struggling actor poses as a school teacher and is hired by the desperate school board. The school lessons soon turn into episodes of high drama, in which the children re-enact historical battles with swords, shields, and
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Journalism Prof: CNN’s Bumbling Coverage a ‘Gift from Heaven’ to Trump 0
- Politics
- July 10, 2017
For the slice of America that still values the craft of journalism and sees a greater need for it than ever, the Trump vs. Media wars have been depressing. In one sense, the conflict has confirmed the worst fears of those who argued that members of the fifth estate have become mere shills, regurgitators
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Why One Principal Sought to Dumb Down a High School Critical Thinking Course 0
- Culture
- July 10, 2017
There are few things in this day and age that bring people from both sides of the political aisle together in agreement. But one of the few things which does bring agreement is the need for school courses that teach students to become logical and critical thinkers. Because few schools offer such classes, many students
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Trump’s VA Terminates 500, Suspends 200 for Misconduct 0
- Culture
- July 10, 2017
Five hundred and forty-eight Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) employees have been terminated since President Donald Trump took office, indicating that his campaign pledge to clean up “probably the most incompetently run agency in the United States” by relentlessly putting his TV catch phrase “you’re fired” into action was more than just empty rhetoric. Another 200 VA workers
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