Education
Working Family Summer: School’s out, what to do with the kids?
May 17, 2018How come some politicians are so eager to cut property taxes or give tax breaks to big companies, but they’ve got no cash for kids’ programs?
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Adjuncts of the world, unite!
May 10, 2018Many people still think professors make a lot of money. We adjuncts, however, don’t. We have the same credentials and responsibilities as full-time tenured faculty, but we make a fraction of the money.
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“We Run UC”—Support workers strike the Univ. of California system
May 9, 2018A study conducted by AFSCME Local 3299 shows starting wages of black and Latino workers are about 20 percent lower than those of their white counterparts.
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Advice for high school graduates: Learn a trade
May 3, 2018The job market of the future will be divided between work that can be outsourced and work that can’t. You can’t hammer a nail over the internet.
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Colorado teachers descend on capitol, demand more funds for kids
April 26, 2018First it was West Virginia. Then Oklahoma. Then Kentucky. Then Arizona. Now add Colorado.
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