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There might be a ceasefire in Ukraine. That's very good news. Also, Germany rules out NATO giving Ukraine weapons.
Nat Geo profiles the well digging boom in California. They're going to suck that state dry. They're literally going to do millions of years of damage in the next 50 years and that'll be it. Deep well groundwater doesn't exactly reappear quickly.
The Dish asks, will the south ever warm up to Obamacare? Hahahaha. Oh wait, you're serious?
Also at The Dish, the midterm elections just got more interesting as the leading but unpopular democrat in Kansas Senate race drops out allowing a left-independent to pull ahead.
So, Ferguson was initially home to GM's Corvette factory and it was moved some time ago. Road and Track has a surprisingly good piece about the effects of the plant closure and other issues facing the city. I recommend reading it.
On I-55 returning to Ann Arbor, the placard on the Stingray’s console catches my eye again. I can’t help but wonder what Michael Brown’s life might have been like if he’d been born 288 miles away in Bowling Green, Kentucky.About 50% of the homes in Ferguson are distressed in some way. Thank goodness major financial firms are coming to the rescue by purchasing those homes and re-renting them. Ferguson is far from unique in this trend as our banks are becoming slumlords.
Just in case you thought McMansions were a fad, think again. They're still here and they're getting bigger.
Inequality, as a measure of national economic health and competitiveness, is kind of uncharted territory.
Facts about American income inequality.
The most striking finding is that the median American family earned 5 per cent less in 2013 than in 2010 after inflation even though the average American family took home 4 per cent more.The discrepancy can be explained by the fact that only people in the top tenth of the income distribution experienced any real income gains since 2010. Put another way, more than all of the growth in real GDP went to a very small subset of the population while everyone else became worse off.
The Economist says America has had a rather productive decade. Our national productivity increase isn't a surprise. The problems seems to be that productivity gains are coming at the cost of employment.
Apple is accused of still having terrible labor conditions at its suppliers' factories. Their stock got hit hard yesterday. It's looking like a buy.
How to destroy the "neo liberal" consensus. That'd be the one which favors free trade, expanded unregulated capitalism throughout the world, and utilizing the IMF, WTO, and other banking organizations to push that agenda forward.
Can Teach for America respond to and learn from it's critics? Probably but I wonder how many future
A kick-ass little video of how a mother used her son's dyslexia to improve teaching reading in her local school system. Also, if you watch closely, you'll see some great strategies that my buddy Jason will recognize.
College campuses rarely, if ever, talk about their students' alcohol use when it comes to sexual assault. Now, it's way too easy to get into the victim blaming cycle here. What needs to be said is that alcohol use ought to be seen as a precursor to sexual assault and various other kinds of injuries. Colleges have a duty to their students to keep a closer eye on the whole situation.
What exactly are the economics behind stealing celebrity photos? I'd guess that's it's mostly for the lulz and the faps. Also, it's a particularly male form of privacy invasion which tells us quite a bit about the culture which seeks this kind of information.
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