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The “Skills Gap” Is a Convenient Myth
When skilled slots do go unfilled, it's because employers seek high-value workers at discount rates.
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Science and Liberation: Science as Human Curiosity, as Authority and as Business
For a stabilized atmosphere, we are going to have to defeat some very powerful people and institutions in the process of liberating ourselves - and science - from the …
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New Study: Anti-Homophobic School Policy Reduces Suicide Risk – for All Students
Heterosexual males were half as likely to attempt suicide in schools with gay-straight alliances.
Haiti: Billions in Aid, Pennies in Progress Since Earthquake
Four years since its devastating earthquake, progress in Haiti is slow and reconstruction efforts are lacking at best.
“So My Daughter Won’t Have to”: Why Kelly Sue DeConnick Fights to Make Women Welcome in Comics
“I think we're seeing another wave of feminism today, a fourth wave characterized by intersectionality and the Internet.”
Rethinking Economics: From the UK, a Global Student Movement Takes Shape
An international movement began to demand a change in the way economics is taught.
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The Surveillance Blitz
Our privacy is getting hit from two sides - from corporations as well as the government.
Apple Meets Its Worst Nightmare: Federally Appointed Antitrust Lawyer Hell-Bent on Doing His Job
What is Apple hiding? Monopolistic rip-off tactics, perchance?
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A Fast Track to Eroding Our Rights
The Trans-Pacific Partnership would have disastrous implications for US consumers.
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Minnesota Law Substitutes Military Test for Graduation Requirement
In Minnesota, radical changes to graduation testing requirements make it easier for high school students' personal information to be sent to military recruiters without parental consent.