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These 13 Counties Started Work Requirements for Food Stamps. Here’s What Happened.0
- Economics
- June 8, 2017
Participation in the food stamp program plunged by 85 percent in 13 counties in Alabama after officials required that recipients must work, look for work, or get approved job training, a state agency says. In those 13 counties, enrollment in food stamps dropped over four months from 5,538 able-bodied adults without dependents to 831 such
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The Afghanistan Quagmire Never Ends. Why?0
- International
- June 8, 2017
What exactly is the US military doing in Afghanistan? I’m hardly alone in wondering. The confusion is so widespread that opposition has bled into public indifference. After a decade and a half – six years longer than the US had troops in Vietnam – it’s just something we do. What we are doing and
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Lemonade Stands Legalized in Utah 0
- Culture
- June 8, 2017
Summer is almost officially here, which means parents all over the country will soon be losing their minds trying to figure out how to occupy their children for three whole months. In the American tradition, the summer months have always been a time to teach the next generation about hard work and responsibility. Older children
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‘Chatting with dolphins by 2021’: Why it’s not going to happen 0
- Philosophy
- June 8, 2017
Every couple of months comes a story about some animal that has been trained to talk. But a little research always reveals that the animal involved might be able to learn to put a few words together but never that it communicates the way humans do. Hoover the seal could say, “Get outta here!”; Blackie
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5 Reasons Latin is the Great Equalizer 1
- Culture
- June 7, 2017
Latin is experiencing a rousing comeback in the last few years, a fact which Intellectual Takeout has wholeheartedly endorsed. After all, when research shows that learning Latin dramatically boosts the math, science, and reading proficiency rates of schoolchildren, who can help but admire the dead tongue? One of Latin’s proponents is Bill Clausen, a department
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In U.S. Universities, a Divorce Is Needed 0
- Culture
- June 7, 2017
For a century or so, U.S. universities have been an adornment of American culture, and indeed of world culture, but, with notable exceptions, only in the sciences. Bright people have flocked to the USA from all parts of the world to study, research, and teach in physics, chemistry, biology, other physical and life sciences, and
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