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Daily Archive for May 24th, 2011

Guest Post: Thoughts on Providing Students with Financial Incentives

Posted in Education on May 24th, 2011

(Wintercow: I asked my former student, Greg Van Houten, to put together a few posts on his impressions of teaching. Greg graduated as a double major in Political Science and Economics from the U of R in Spring 2010. Since then he has been teaching as part of the Teach for America Program in Boston […]

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What the Amish and Government Employees (Sort of) Have in Common

Posted in Special Privilege on May 24th, 2011

Many people in each group (I think all in the case of the Amish) neither pay into the Social Security system nor receive benefits from the Social Security system. What else do they have in common? That this exemption is awarded for religious reasons in both cases.  Here is a little on the Amish: In […]

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