Posted in labor markets on Nov 5th, 2009
Seriously. When I was an economics graduate student at Cornell, I was being asked to join the UAW. That’s because us poor graduate students were being exploited by agreeing to work as Teaching Assistants and Research Assistants in order to have our free tuition and continue to receive a stipend to go to school. You […]
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Posted in Education on Nov 5th, 2009
From Chris M.: We Can Barely Make Kids Literate, But At Least We’re Green … Sad. Maybe there’s a lesson in priorities in here, somewhere? Rochester City School District Named Top Green Energy School: “The Rochester City School District made the Environmental Protection Agency’s list of the top 20 schools in America that use renewable […]
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I am opposed to coercive redistribution on both moral and practical grounds. However, suppose a bleeding-heart were to convince me that it is “just” to stick a gun in my face and force me to part with my earnings, and further, that they were to decide how to be charitable on my behalf and that […]
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