Saturday Morning News Round Up
Most of the changes for the blog have been completed. Please let me know what you think. Gun Violence An interesting study of crime looking at six cities – Philadelphia, San Diego, Milwaukee,...
View ArticleKrugman – How to fix the economy
This is easy. He has been saying this for years. Fixing the economy – inject capital into state and local governments. Hire back the state and local workers. This would drop the unemployment rate and...
View ArticleThoughts on the jobs market
Pushing the car the wrong way 80,ooo jobs were created in June. I’m not sure what everyone expected. This is about what I had expected. There is nothing I can see that would cause employers to start...
View ArticleSequester Badness
Sequester pain The Sequester is causing widespread pain. From EPI: State budgets rely heavily on federal funding— in 2011, federal grants to state and local governments totaled $607 billion. The...
View ArticleLinda Monk discusses the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (Update)
Let’s go to school. I was confused about the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Was does it do? Why was it necessary? Why was Section Five so important? Constitutional scholar Linda Monk answers all of these...
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