#Jobs

Today seems like a good day to relate a conversation with a friend I once had who was getting an MA in higher education.I asked her WHY college was so
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Given the renewed attention on the possibility of a $15 federal minimum wage, it's worth noting that "$15/hour" looks very different in 2021 than it did when the "Fight for
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I've been bagged out, vilified and shamed on the front page of the paper in the past. Even as a grown woman with children and 3 jobs it was still
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A quick thread on mobilized young people fighting for racial justice and observations from the Russian-speaking Jewish community. 1/ When Soviet Jews fled to the states many (most?) of us
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Our entire legal system is built on advocacy by a representative who knows the law--the lawyer. If you start encouraging harassment of lawyers for picking the "wrong client," you will
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Apple Inc. hit a market cap of $2tn last night. While there are numerous thing on which apple can be praised. One of the key components of Apple Inc. is
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A sampling of @YahooSports' Super Bowl bangers from last night and this morning, starting with @CharlesRobinson on the Bucs' all-in gamble paying off in a way the NFL had never
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More I ponder it, more the full reversal of economic policy today to where we were in lockdown I (ie full furlough everywhere for every sector) is extraordinary It's hard
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It's good that Google gets so much shit for firing their internal "AI ethics" researchers when they get to loud or annoying. But it also shows just how pointless it
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I don’t think education in iteself is a scam but I do feel like colleges in the US are kind of a scam. I don’t know how to word this
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Slowly, people that voted Leave are realising how they were manipulated & coerced by Tory extremism. That it had to take them losing their jobs & livelihoods to see truth
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Super Bowl Sunday - School leadership and what we can learn from the NFL - a thread that people who work @stmonicas will understand. 1. Good players can’t succeed
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A few thoughts on working in policy research as an Economics PhD. A thread that could be interesting for Econ JMCs in light of a shortage of academic jobs, but
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Faculty hiring 2020 is coming. Yes there will be TT jobs available. Yes there will be many fewer than last year. Should you apply this year? Wait it out? Give
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1/3 General Austin is highly credentialed and likely will do a fine job leading DoD. It is fantastic and overdue that he will be the first Black person in the
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So... I read that Larry Summers op-ed. Frankly, I don't completely understand the whole thing, but he said something that isn't entirely true:"Unemployment is falling." Sure, but labor non participation
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