When thousands of English professors gathered in Austin, Texas earlier this month for the annual Modern Language Association (MLA) convention, they were rather pessimistic about the future of their profession, with one small but notable…
Topic: economy
Econ Professor says 200,000 Jobs have been Lost due to Higher Minimum Wage during Recession
A higher minimum wage does not lead to more job creation, but we knew that: An economics professor at the University of California, Irvine estimates that state and local minimum wage increases have cost up…
Larry Summers Stands Up for Labor Unions
Lawrence Summers, former U.S. Treasury Department Secretary and current Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University, defended the concept of labor unions and blasted the South at a recent panel discussion at the Center…
Federal Reserve Study: College Degrees for Minorities No Guarantee of Raising Income
Campus Reform with more on the study: The report released this month by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis poses the question, “Why didn’t higher education protect Hispanic and black wealth?” in response to…
INFOGRAPHIC: Child Poverty in Post-Recession America
What economic recovery?
What Economic Recovery? America’s Children Suffer Post-Recession
Three universities contributed to a study that shows that children are faring badly in the Obama years, although they stop short of questioning the official unemployment rate. The 2015 Kids Count Data Book, published by…
Community Colleges Pay for the Tofu
President Barack Obama’s latest education initiative is #FreeCommunityCollege for American students, but it brings up the question, will it make a concrete impact on the higher education landscape? At the Brookings Institution, Maryland community college…
The Really Lost Generation
If the raccoon coat-wearing youth of the 1920s really were the lost generation, what would you call millennials? Generation Opportunity, “a national, non-partisan youth advocacy organization,” crunched the employment and unemployment data for March in…
NAFTA Encourages Violence in Mexico, MLA Panel Alleges
The North American Free Trade Agreement. NAFTA, between Canada, U.S. and Mexico, signed by President Clinton encourages graphic posts of murders of Mexicans by cartels and corrupt officials, panelists on a panel at the Modern…
Statist Academic Reflect: More Government
Once upon a time, there was a saying among the young: “The answer is more beer. What is the question?” Substitute the word “government” for the word “beer” and you have what could be the…