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Here's your monthly employment report. 252k jobs, 5.6% unemployment. Commentary and analysis here.
Frontline, as always, is quality. However, the free video can not be embedded. Here it is on Youtube for some money:
It's best we don't forget how the Iraq War made some people very rich. I daresay that Fairfax County, VA would not be among the highest incomes in the nation if it weren't for all those lucrative government contracts.
Someone did the math on all the fossil fuels we need to leave in the ground. Guess what, it's pretty much all of them. So, we're pretty much farked. Drill baby drill! Keystone Tripple-XL! frack the planet! More here.
Is life better in Red States? Comment from Brad Delong:
This is why I think that the winning strategy for America over the next ten years will be to figure out how to make homeownership in Blue States much more affordable--via a combination of anti-NIMBYism, investments in transportation and other infrastructure, and a reconfiguration of housing finance, with appropriate subsidies for those trying to buy and appropriate wealth taxes on those who have benefitted from antisocial NIMByist local-government policies. Our current situation is one in which relatively small amounts of induced migration from Red States to Blue States would bring with them enormous economic-growth benefits, after all...The new republican controlled state legislatures have just started. What do they have in store for us?
So, what happens when a robot breaks the law? Nobody knows. In this case, it's a "bot" whose algorithm led it to purchase drugs. I'd imagine that makes the programmer liable. But what if it's a self driving car that runs a red light? Or worse? The law is hardly ready to keep up with the automation of crime.
Harassed by algorithms. Yeah, what if we literally write privilege into our code?
Because, Move Fast and Break Things is a terrible motto if those "things" are people.
The Tech Elite is getting behind the idea of a universal basic income. Presumably as a way of driving down labor prices.
The rich believe the poor have it easy. I see lots of poor people with the physicians in the ER. I do not want their lives. Its hard and nobody cares for you or helps you out. Indeed, people seem more apt to shit all over your day for no real reason.
You know, like so called "Broken Windows" policing which acts as a tax on the poor because, well, they're poor. Somewhere along the line we started to believe that lots of government services needed to start generating their own revenues: police, student loans, the post office, just to name a few.
At least they get "free" community college. Lucky duckies.
Blame the rise of plutocrats on politics not capitalism. As if capitalism isn't a political system...
There may be no proven alternative to capitalism writ large. But there are stark choices, nonetheless, for there are different kinds of capitalism. What makes many people uneasy is that Anglo-Saxon capitalism is heading towards a plutocratic model. The economy is run by the rich for the rich.There are more jails than colleges in the US. That's not counting the local police departments where they lock up drunks for the night.
A wonderful list of racial biases with the research linked. Now I can prove you're racist!
We've perpetuated the myth of "Women and Children First" when the reality is every man for himself. So, patriarchy was a myth but chauvinism is quite real.
Differentiation doesn't work. Yes, but it helps school systems justify large class sizes and keep budgets under control.
Being empirical about teaching is hard.
Some thoughts on the Null Hypothesis in education and property values.
In Bryan’s story, the educational credentials play a causal role, because if you don’t get the credentials, you send an adverse signal. In my story, educational credentials are not a cause. They are a symptom of your future affluence, which is caused by the personality traits you inherited from your affluent parents. So when we observe clusters of well-educated young people in particular geographic areas, what we are observing are clusters of children of affluent adults.Forbes highlights the to 30 under 30 in education. But there's a problem: none of them are teachers and only one works in education. Welcome to the future of schooling, where students are just another source of rents to be extract from the public by the government on behalf of industry. Or maybe they're just clusters of of well educated children of rich adults?
While Forbes is first and foremost an industry publication, a list about education naturally begets the question: where are the educators? Only one of the 41 honorees this year is working full-time within a school: Elena Sanina, blended learning manager at Aspire Public Schools.An economist evaluates the job market for English PhDs. It ain't good unless you went to Harvard or something. His recommendation:
“The majority of English graduate programs are preparing their students for jobs at research-focused universities, but most of their graduates do not get such jobs, and cannot expect to get such jobs,” the paper says. This suggests that a significant change in the content and structure of many programs is called for, with much more specialization in programs that train English generalists appropriate for more teaching-focused academic jobs and private sector jobs. They would provide far less preparation of students for academic research jobs that few of their students will get.Nat Geo is giving NGT his own late night talk show based on his popular podcast. Stellar.
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