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How Election Management by the Numbers is Changing American Election Campaigns. So, pretty much, umm, statistics are so good that we don't even need to campaign anymore? Somebody remind these guys of the Romney campaign and Rove's election night hysterics.
Elections have, however, gotten much more expensive. Here's a old article discussing why.
Nick Carnes says that the class war is over and the rich have won. Why do I feel like I've read this article before?
The average work week is 47 hours. The survey is of full time workers only. I'd like to see data on part time workers, especially those with multiple jobs.
Uber claims it's drivers make an average of $90,000 a year. It looks like those claims are bogus.
Once we've actually taken all of our operating costs into account, it turns out that our uberX driver is actually middle of the pack, with earnings between the 25th and 75th percentile of his peers. Which, in normal times, is exactly where we'd expect a single-dispatch taxi driver to end up.WalMart's new employee dress code is basically nonsense. Forcing employees to buy their own uniforms and placing the burden of other work related expenses is nothing new.
California's 9th Circuit Court ruled against Fed Ex yesterday. Basically, they were classifying their employees as contractors without making that clear to the employees and then using different compensation schemes for those contractors to avoid paying overtime.
Slavery and the making of American Capitalism.
His crucial claim, spelled out in chapter four, is that increases in cotton productivity before the Civil War resulted not primarily from improved machinery or breeds of cotton, but rather from the refinement of the “pushing system” on southern plantations. Overseers, applying the logic of commodity capitalism to the labor of field hands, learned how to set escalating daily picking quotas, enforced by brutal punishment, for maximum efficiency.Ah Redlining, it's good to see that you didn't go out of style in 1960s Chicago. File this under continued policies of white supremacy.
Scott Sumner looks at 4 cases of historical positions vs current positions from democrats and republicans and thinks everyone's pretty much full of shit. Those are my words not his. He calls it intellectual decay.
In a very rare example, an organization realized it's workforce was lacking some specific skills and decided to train it's employees.
Attendance rates for K-12 teachers in 40 urban school districts. Very interesting.
Jason Jones reports on a recent documentary about a soccer stadium collapse. He focuses on the tendency of those in power to blame the victims. Obviously they should have understood the dynamics of the stadiums structural integrity.
Most article about taking time off from the internet are pretty insufferable. No so with this one.
For some reason this guy decided to read the Amazon reviews of Mein Kampf. All of them. The outcome is predictable but I still enjoyed reading about it.
Russia's zero-g space sex geckos are all dead.Consider the following review, titled "Jesus and Hitler":Hate them both or Love them both. What's important is the realization that they came preaching the same message and suffered the same fate.
Google's Street View team made street view available for the various planets in the upcoming game Destiny. I know this is a marketing stunt but I'd like to see this done for every game.
Netflix is getting aggressive with it's show acquisitions. They've bought the rights to Gotham before it even aired the first episode.
This dog doesn't understand the rain:
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