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Throwing schools out the window
By Nicholas Kristof So this is what the Senate seems to be coming down to: keeping bridges and throwing students out the window. The effort to prune the stimulus package to make it more palatable to Republicans is focused on slashing money for education. The…
Author: The New York Times
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The Transformer
by LINDA PERLSTEIN WHATEVER IT TAKES Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America By Paul Tough Illustrated. 296 pp. Houghton Mifflin. $26 When assessing the state of America’s children, people speak of the achievement gap between the middle class and the poor. But really…
Author: The New York Times
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Skills to Learn to Restart Earnings
Original Source By JOHN LELAND JUSTIN WILLIAMS worked as an engineer at Honeywell International for 31 years, and when he retired last April, he knew he could not afford to stop working. His home in suburban Maryland, on which he had spent his 401(k) savings,…
Author: The New York Times
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Across the Country, Fear About Savings, the Job Market and Retirement
by LAURA M. HOLSON A year ago, Robert Paynter was comfortably retired and looking forward to years of refurbishing old cars and boating from his dock on Lake Norman in North Carolina. Over a 17-year career at Wachovia, he amassed a pile of stock and…
Author: The New York Times
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Our Schools Must Do Better
I asked a high school kid walking along Commonwealth Avenue if he knew who the vice president of the United States was. He thought for a moment and then said, “No.” I told him to take a guess. He thought for another moment, looked at…
Author: New York Times
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Top Cops and Prosecutors Form Alliance to Battle Crime and Prison Crowding
By Simone Weichselbaum Leaders of the nation’s major police departments announced on Wednesday that they have joined forces with current and former federal, state and local prosecutors in an alliance to reduce crime as well as the country’s swollen prison population. The group, which calls…
Author: The Marshall Project
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Task to Aid Self-Esteem Lifts Grades for Some
Original Source By BENEDICT CAREY Some seventh graders who were struggling in class did significantly better after performing a series of brief confidence-building writing exercises, and the improvements continued through eighth grade, researchers reported Thursday. The students who benefited most were blacks who were doing…
Author: The New York Times
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Work past retirement age? Avoid pitfalls, penalties
Original Source BY MARK MILLER Tribune Media Services So you’re getting ready to retire, but think you’ll want to keep working in some fashion after you leave. Maybe you’ll downshift to a part-time position with your former employer, or do some consulting. Congratulations on making…
Author: New York Newsday
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Not-So Sweet Home Alabama: What Alabamians Are Saying About Their State's New Immigration Law
Kassi Cruz picks tomatoes in Steele, Alabama, on October 3, 2011. Cruz decided to pitch in to help after the majority of migrant workers left after the new Alabama immigration law took effect last week. By Center for American Progress Immigration Team Alabama has reawakened…
Author: Center for American Progress
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FOIC ruling to face challenge
Original Source By Aaron Bray, Staff Reporter This July, the Elm City Resident Card celebrated both its one-year anniversary and a long-awaited court victory – although opponents are looking to cut the celebrations short. At the conclusion of months of testimony and hearings before the…
Author: Yale Daily News