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Harvard Is Vaulting Workers Into the Middle Class With High Pay. Can Anyone Else Follow Its Lead?


“For Ms. Bonilla, the result is an hourly wage of more than $25. Adding the money from a part-time job cooking at a student dorm, most weeks she earns more than $1,500. That exceeds the typical weekly pay of a worker with a master’s degree. Adding in the wage of Mr. Villatoro, also a cook at the business school, the family earns almost $120,000 a year.”

Harvard Is Vaulting Workers Into the Middle Class With High Pay. Can Anyone Else Follow Its Lead?

Students forced the university to shield campus workers from outsourcing’s impact on pay. But as a model, the policy challenges some economic axioms.


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This is why people hate Obamacare. It forces people to buy high cost insurance …


This is why people hate Obamacare. It forces people to buy high cost insurance through private corporations that don’t cover services when you need them. #Medicare4All would cover everyone while keeping costs in check with price caps on medications, services, and procedures.




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Armed officer on the Florida high school campus did nothing to stop the shooter


“The only thing that will stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun”*

*Second guy with gun may not be “good”

Armed officer on the Florida high school campus did nothing to stop the shooter

The Florida school where a former student shot and killed 17 people is grappling with word that the armed officer on campus did nothing to stop the shooter.


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Got to laugh at the people I went to high school with on Facebook about the pled…


Got to laugh at the people I went to high school with on Facebook about the pledge “controversy”:

“I always stand for the pledge, my parents raised me right!”

– yeah dude, you’ve been to prison three times, have multiple DUIs, been arrested for beating women, and have been unemployed for the past two years. You stand for the pledge though…..you’re a real Citizen ? #fuckYourPledge ??


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Hell and High Water


People were sounding the alarm bell on Houston for years, sadly no one listened.

Hell and High Water

Houston is the fourth-largest city in the country. It’s home to the nation’s largest refining and petrochemical complex, where billions of gallons of oil and dangerous chemicals are stored. And it’s a sitting duck for the next big hurricane. Learn why Texas isn’t ready.


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Most towns fund schools from property tax. If the town is wealthy with high prop…


Most towns fund schools from property tax. If the town is wealthy with high property values, schools are extremely well funded. If the town is poor, with very little wealth in home values, schools are underfunded and failing.

The State of Vermont funds schools by creating a shared fund state wide. Property tax from around the state is deposited into the fund, and then distributed to schools based on pupil count to equalize money spent per student. They also fund schools with an income tax mechanism. This way all students receive a fair education, regardless of which zip code they live in.




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