Going to School in the Summer is More Difficult in the South
It is even dangerous in some places. I did go to schools without air conditioning and just fans. It was difficult at times when we got closer to Summer. Then…
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High school financial literacy?
…a high school graduation requirement. He feels that this would fill a much-needed gap: “There are no long-term tests of financial literacy that I can locate, and overall financial indicators…
Devos’s Magic Show
…Law School’s Project on Predatory Student Lending. Ms. DeVos, who invested in companies with ties to for-profit colleges before taking office, has made it an agency priority to unfetter schools…
Youth Day September 15 1963 in Birmingham Alabama
…a freshman at Lane Tech an all boy’s high school in Chicago. It is economics in the rawest of forms. The suppression of an entire population in the South and…
How Shocking Was Shock Therapy?
…periods of crisis around the world to force damaging neoliberal policies derived from the Chicago School and Washington Consensus upon unhappy populations that suffered greatly as a result. This was…
The Crips and the Bloods could not whip a decent paying Ronald McDonald.
…Then I remembered Chicago leasing its parking meter system for 75 years for $1.15 billion: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-09/morgan-stanley-group-s-11-billion-from-chicago-meters-makes-taxpayers-cry.html http://www.theatlanticwire.com/business/2010/10/why-does-abu-dhabi-own-all-of-chicago-s-parking-meters/18627/ ****** Up the road from Oakland City Hall – up College Avenue –…
The Medicare Sky Is Falling
…to meet its entire obligations for Medicare HI. At the Chicago Tribune, Eric Zorn culls from the news media examples of the sky falling in on Medicare: Medicare is Going…
Supreme Court rulings and the Roberts Court
…found. It was prepared by Lee Epstein, a political scientist at Northwestern’s law school; William M. Landes, an economist at the University of Chicago; and Judge Richard A. Posner, who…
In the Wake of the Mass Massacre—Bipartisan Reform or the Senate Bill?
…University Anna Burger, Secretary-Treasurer, SEIU David Cutler, Harvard University Linda C. Degutis, Yale University Eric Feldman, University of Pennsylvania Thomas Fisher, University of Chicago Brian R. Flay, Oregon State University…
…of civil rights crusading and Saul Alinsky house-to-house plodding. He then went to Harvard Law School, where he became the first black president of the Law Review; returned to Chicago…