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Chicago Unions Fight for Their Survival 0
- Culture
- October 18, 2019
Classes in Chicago’s public schools were canceled starting Oct. 17 as more than 25,000 teachers in the nation’s third-largest school district went on strike in what they’re calling a fight for “justice and equity” for their students. The strike, the city’s first in seven years, marks what has been a tumultuous year for labor negotiations
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State Capitalism is a Lie: China is Thriving Because of the Private Sector 0
- Economics
- October 18, 2019
A working paper from the World Economic Forum released earlier this year stated: China’s private sector — which has been revving up since the global financial crisis — is now serving as the main driver of China’s economic growth. The combination of numbers 60/70/80/90 are frequently used to describe the private sector’s contribution to the
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Academic Nonsense and Biases Have a Long History 0
- Education
- October 18, 2019
The United States had a population of 1.5 million postsecondary faculty members in the fall of 2016. This ivory tower army produces volumes of written material so lofty that it’s rarely read by anyone. The content that is read can be hard for every day Americans to take seriously, for with 10.4 registered Democrats for every registered Republican, the political bias is strong
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Has Science Discovered a Cure for Obesity?0
- Culture
- October 18, 2019
Life expectancy is falling in America, and the obesity epidemic is one of the causes. We’ve all heard alarming stories and seen the evidence. An astonishing “two-thirds of adults,” and “nearly 30% of children are overweight or obese.” Obesity-related illness is costing America “$190.2 billion or nearly 21% of annual medical spending in the United States.” Adult-onset diabetes is
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‘Batwoman’ Actress Ruby Rose Is Happy She Didn’t Transition to a Man 0
- Culture
- October 17, 2019
On the occasion of World Mental Health Day last week, 33-year-old actress Ruby Rose opened up about her early childhood trauma, mental disorders, and attempted suicides in an Instagram post. She wrote: View this post on Instagram Today is world mental health
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Aldi’s Owners Gained Riches by Cutting Prices 0
- Culture
- October 17, 2019
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders continued to bash wealth in the Democratic presidential debate Tuesday night. They view wealth as a zero-sum – that people at the top essentially stole their fortunes from the rest of us. Sanders said, “And we cannot afford a billionaire class, whose greed and corruption has been at war with the working
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