For years, governments in India and much of the developing world have followed the advice of a paper arguing that labor regulations actually hurt workers. The problem? The research was wrong.
Read more...Not only do charter schools not improve student performance, but they are inefficient and drain resources from public schools. It should come as no surprise that resource-scarce schools who’ve also typically had their students cherry-picked have trouble.
Read more...Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders propose what are actually modest restrictions on corporate stock buybacks to force their to give workers higher priority.
Read more...Homelessness needs political solutions. But as temperatures plummet, communities are also finding a new way to both immediately practically help, and connect with, homeless people.
Read more...One expert says he gets versions of this question almost daily — usually from “people at big institutional real estate funds, rich people who want to buy land or already own land, or survivalist types.”
Read more...A short-term program to help poor seniors cope with their physical limitations appears to be very effective.
Read more...Journalist Andrea Gabor’s new book heralds a “quiet revolution” in education you didn’t know was happening.
Read more...What a sound national budget might look like.
Read more...Seventh Circuit hands down major age discrimination decision holding that federal disparate impact protection does not extend to job applicants and applies to employees only.
Read more...Charter schools undermine public schools, and that’s a feature, not a bug.
Read more...Soros just designated China’s AI and surveillance ambitions as the #1 enemy to “open societies”. Recall he’s already gone after Facebook and other US tech titans.
Read more...Kamala Harris seems to assume that voters are easy marks.
Read more...Right wingers go on tilt as AOC talks up MMT.
Read more...BlackRock CEO Larry Fink urges corporate CEOs to go to the ramparts and take on the challenge of populists and oh so demanding Millennials.
Read more...Teachers are taking aim at the way charter schools drain resources from public schools.
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