Indiana’s Jobless Recover; Sticky Wages and the Tax Wedge
For immediate release (804 words). The Indiana Department of Workforce Development reports that the unemployment rate in Indiana dropped 0.3 percent to 8.4 percent in February 2012. The nation’s unemployment rate is 8.3 percent. Compared with a year ago, Indiana’s labor force grew by 40,600 or 1.3 percent, outpacing the national growth and in sharp Read the full article…
College Tuition: Higher than a Dave Matthews Concert
For immediate release “More than 100 protesters gathered on the steps of the (Santa Monica College) library and marched through campus, picking up more concerned students along the way, as they chanted: ‘Education should be free. No cuts. No fees.’” — April 5, Los Angeles Times by NICK BARBKNECHT Everyone would love overpriced colleges to Read the full article…
Collegiate Castes: Mind the Quality Gap
For immediate release (706 words with optional cut) Current proposals to increase college enrollments won’t magically increase Americans’ academic abilities. Indeed, there is already evidence that many students — even those who graduate — fall far below the traditional standard for college achievement. That which follows offers a glimpse of the polarization of ability evident Read the full article…
‘Feckless’ Men and our Future
For immediate release (546 words) Common sense and lots of statistical evidence suggest that stable two-parent households provide the best environment for child-rearing. Children continuously raised with both parents are less likely to be in poverty, to get in trouble with the law and are much more likely to excel educationally. Divorce and illegitimacy rates Read the full article…
All-Boys Charter Sets Educational First
For release March 20 and thereafter (665 words) ISTEP passage rates at the Charles A. Tindley Accelerated School in Indianapolis are among the state’s highest, but the school’s leaders and supporters believe they can be higher still. That confidence lies behind the school’s announcement that it will open an all-boys middle school in 2012-13 with Read the full article…
Charles Murray, Meet the Bard of Avon
Editors: Please sub for this updated version. (546 words) Declining social order; rampant promiscuity; conventional morals in shambles; illegitimacy and venereal disease all too common: A description of much of contemporary America according to social scientist Charles Murray’s in his recent book “Coming Apart.” Murray’s makes a credible case that the problems of poverty and Read the full article…
