…was a peanut farmer. Both grew up poor in the South, as did President Johnson before them. Kerry was educated at boarding school in Europe, prep school in New England…

…of this unforunate puzzle comes in today’s NYT: George J. Tenet and his deputies at the Central Intelligence Agency were presented in August 2001 with a briefing paper labeled “Islamic…

…Creationists Intelligent Design-ists to take evolution out of public school curricula, or to at least teach Creationism alongside evolution. Needless to say, the scientists oppose this: The battle-cry of the…

…out teaching at the 8th grade level: Georgia’s school superintendent Thursday dropped plans to remove the word “evolution” from the state’s high school science curriculum. “I will recommend to the…

More Unemployment In an earlier post Kash gave some data on declining labor force participation, a decline that is particularly sharp among men and people with a high school degree…

…rather instability in a component of NGDP, namely total wages and salaries. And speaking of the school of economics based on that thinking, a school that he’s been primarily responsible…

…that there are far fewer jobs available to unskilled school leavers and that whole sector has a new choice, either develop some specialized skills which are in demand or become…

…bigger factor in wages. The lack of a high school diploma is twice as high for African Americans as it is for Caucasians and the attainment of an Associates Degree…

…Amendment’s speech clause. Nor do I recall learning in Civics class that George Washington, et al., thought corporations are people, my friend. But maybe I was absent from school the…

…pushed high school students as well as war veterans into higher education, particularly with the offering of incentives such as the G.I. bill. However, these days, even with a president…