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“Workers Are Constantly on the Edge of the Knife“
Rep. George Miller talks about the inequities associated with just-in-time scheduling, especially problematic for the 7.5 million part-time workers who say they wish to have full-time positions.
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The Invisible Diseases of 9/11
Today, those first responders who managed to survive 9/11 are dying off, and our government is doing very little about it.
Broad Coalition Calls for a New Model of Trade
550+ groups reject fast-track trade promotion authority in letter to Senator Wyden.
K-5 Students Deserve a Quality STEM Education, Not Human Rights Violations
Children around the world deserve a quality education without the fear of being abducted, recruited for and coerced into armed combat.
Valdemar W. Setzer on the Obsolescence of Education
My impression is that education is getting worse, and one of the main causes for this is the use of electronic media.
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Warning to War Supporters
If you want to bomb a country every time an evil group murders people in a gruesome manner, you'll have to bomb a lot of countries including our own.
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How the Koch Brothers, Sheldon Adelson, Bill Gates and Other Billionaires Are Undermining the US
You can see the urge of the United States' new crop of billionaires to “play god” at our expense and with our lives - to decide for us, ad …
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A Review of Koblitz’s “Sex and Herbs and Birth Control“
According to Koblitz, the variation in pregnancy definitions allowed ample moral and ethical wiggle room for women to take matters into their own hands, so to speak.
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The Big Winners From Sweden’s For-Profit “Free” Schools Are Companies, Not Pupils
Since their inception, free schools have been subject to research, primarily concerned with two issues: student attainment and educational inequality.
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Mexico’s Cocopah People Refuse to Disappear
The Mexican constitution defines indigenous people as the descendants of the populations that inhabited the area before the state was formed and who preserve their ancestral cultural or economic …