There’s a reason community college enrollment is down by double digits this year. It’s not unaffordable tuition. It’s because too few community colleges have acknowledged that the economy has changed.
View from the Left: Restoring corporate tax rate to 35% not socialism
By Scott Deshefy
Needs for infrastructure modernization and hardenings against “ransomware” are stark. Last week’s cyber attack by Russian gang DarkSide shut down Colonial Pipeline’s conduits from Texas to New Jersey, interrupting 2.5 million barrels daily flow of gasoline and other fuels. That’s 45% of East Coast supplies, more an annoyance than an obstacle but for predictable panic buying. Instigated by social media disinformation, people waited in gas lines to fill guzzler SUVs and pickups the way they hoarded toilet paper last year. DarkSide’s stated purpose is capitalistic, not ideological, interested only in extorting money, not “creating unrest.” Evidence Putin or other Russian officials outsourced the disruption hasn’t come to light. But that’s a veil of plausible denial much like Elizabeth I tacitly supporting Francis Drake’s conflicts with the Spanish as a privateer, even claiming
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Altercation: The Piketty Impact
French economist Thomas Piketty in 2019
While reading Brooke Jarvisâs fascinating New Yorker essay about issues associated with the endingârather than the extendingâof life, I came across this passage:
âOf all the forms of inequality,â Martin Luther King, Jr., said in 1966, by which time the divide was entrenched, âinjustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman.â Even in modern American cities, people born into poor neighborhoods can expect to live as many as thirty years fewer than people who are born in affluent ones across town. And that was before the COVID-19 pandemic further widened our existing gaps.
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