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Wed, 06/30/2021 - 5:27pm -- tim by Jack Hoffman, Public Assets Institute Vermont’s average annual wage rose to just over $54,000 last year. The increase, nearly 10 percent, was the largest since at least 1988. It’s nothing to celebrate, though. We aren’t really better off. The average went up last year because the COVID-19 pandemic took its biggest toll on low-wage jobs. If you ranked jobs from the lowest paying to the highest paying and divided them into three equal groups, you’d find there were almost 17 percent fewer jobs in the bottom group last year than there had been in 2019. J...

Wed, 05/26/2021 - 3:38pm -- tim by Jack Hoffman, Public Assets Institute Nearly half of the governors—23 and counting—have decided to end federal supplemental unemployment benefits for workers in their states. Evidently, they never heard the old adage: Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face. In these bizarre times, I guess we have to be grateful that Governor Scott was raised with more common sense. Despite the pandemic—with the business shutdowns, layoffs, school closures, illness, and all of the other things that kept so many people out of work—personal income in Vermont actua...

When the first PQ government was elected, they made a decision to promote the French language. How to do it was left to a PQ minister who was rabidly Anglophobic. They could have made a law for the Protestant school boards, for children in their first years of school, up to the age of  10, when they can easily learn and be taught the French language.  However Minister Camille Laurin decided it was an opportunity to demonize the English language by forbidding it on outdoor signs, and attacking the English school boards. This Anglophobic attack made Bill 101 a racist law, but nobody in...

There is a call by community groups for Premier Legault to denounce the recent attack on a mosque. It makes yet another incident that badly reflects on this province. Legault has to accept and denounce Islamophobia as well as all other forms of racism. It’s time Anglophobia is declared as racist. Legault needs to finally admit and accept that systemic racism exists in Quebec no matter the humiliation he will feel. He should understand that racism exists not only today in Quebec, but has been endemic from the time the first settlers and their Missionaries came over from France, where extr...

Five Heart Podcast Episode 217: Big Ten Wrestling Tournament Preview, Andy Hoffman Tribute Share this story Jon Johnston / Corn Nation Todd and Dylan get together and preview the Big Ten Wrestling tournament. If you’re into wrestling this is the best Nebraska wrestling coverage you’re going to get. Dylan is our wrestling guy, while Todd coached high school wrestling in Iowa during his career in education. I am not making any exaggerated claims in the above statement. We discuss Teddy Allen leaving the Nebraska basketball program. And in the end, we pay tribute to Andy Hoffman, father ...