'Sir, are you injured anywhere?' vs. 'f*ck your breath'. Only one kind of approach provokes riots, by Ian Reifowitz Reclaiming secularism is the key to protecting religious liberty, by Jon Perr On "riots" and roots, by Denise Oliver Velez The White House Correspondents' Dinner: America's political saturnalia, by Dante Atkins The most racist areas in the United States, by Susan Grigsby Happy Birthday, Customer, by Mark E Andersen Do we all live in a giant hologram, by DarkSyde Hillary Clinton on Foreign Policy: Critical Perspectives from the Left, by koNko A constitutional amendment is the only solution to our fraudulent politics, by Egberto Willies
Reclaiming secularism is the key to protecting religious liberty, by Jon Perr
On "riots" and roots, by Denise Oliver Velez
The White House Correspondents' Dinner: America's political saturnalia, by Dante Atkins
The most racist areas in the United States, by Susan Grigsby
Happy Birthday, Customer, by Mark E Andersen
Do we all live in a giant hologram, by DarkSyde
Hillary Clinton on Foreign Policy: Critical Perspectives from the Left, by koNko
A constitutional amendment is the only solution to our fraudulent politics, by Egberto Willies
The authors of a study published last year in the Hastings Law Journal took a closer look at the most recent 100 executions (as of June 2013) to determine whether any of those defendants might have been spared in accordance with the law. As it turned out, the overwhelming majority met one or more of the criteria: One-third of the executed prisoners had a documented intellectual disability, borderline intellectual functioning, or a traumatic brain injury—and eight scored below 70 on an IQ test, a level of disability that should exempt a defendant from execution. Four were 18 at the time of their crimes. Although the Supreme Court has twice ruled that states may not execute someone who is insane, 54 of the 100 executions studied involved prisoners who showed symptoms of severe mental illness, including six cases of schizophrenia, three of bipolar disorder, and eight of PTSD. Six had tried to kill themselves at least once.
Although the Supreme Court has twice ruled that states may not execute someone who is insane, 54 of the 100 executions studied involved prisoners who showed symptoms of severe mental illness, including six cases of schizophrenia, three of bipolar disorder, and eight of PTSD. Six had tried to kill themselves at least once.
Baltimore City officials estimate the 39 hours an employee spent watching pornography on the job during a two-week period equated to about $1,166 in salary. They fired him in January after monitoring and documenting the employee's porn viewing. The maintenance supervisor with the Department of Public Works—who city officials did not identify, citing personnel confidentiality—was bringing a pornography DVD to work and watching it at his computer, according to a report released last week by the Office of the Inspector General.
The maintenance supervisor with the Department of Public Works—who city officials did not identify, citing personnel confidentiality—was bringing a pornography DVD to work and watching it at his computer, according to a report released last week by the Office of the Inspector General.
The woman who was arrested for tearing down a holiday display set up by the Satanic Temple in Florida has launched a crowdfunding campaign so that she may continue to wage her Earthly war to “keep Satan out of our Capitols and out of our schools.” Florida prosecutors dropped the charges against Susan Hemeryck after she destroyed the display containing an angel descending into a pit of fire.
Florida prosecutors dropped the charges against Susan Hemeryck after she destroyed the display containing an angel descending into a pit of fire.
Before Hough took the tab to the governor—which rang in at $52.16—she put an X in the line where he would leave a tip. And to the left of that she wrote, “Tip the schools.”
Social or labor market policies are measured by their reach, their adequacy, and their costs. By these metrics, a minimum wage increase is a slam dunk. A generation of research now demonstrates pretty decisively that markets can accommodate a reasonably higher minimum at no significant threat to job creation—especially when ancillary gains (productivity gains, less turnover, increase in aggregate demand) are taken into account. Raising the minimum wage makes almost no demands on the public purse, and could in fact recoup much of the current public subsidy (through working families’ reliance on means-tested tax credits, cash assistance, health care, and food security programs) of low-wage employment. Even a small increase promises to make a big difference: in 2013, Arin Dube estimated that an increase to $10.10 would raise the incomes of poor families (those at the 10th percentile) by 12 percent and lift five to seven million out of poverty. An increase to $12 would likely have even larger poverty-fighting effects. While much of our social and tax policy is either poorly targeted (it reaches the poor unevenly) or aimed in in the wrong direction (it benefits those who don’t need it), a minimum wage increase hits the bull’s-eye. As EPI’s new estimates of the impact of the “Raise the Wage Act” (bringing the minimum to $12.00/hour by 2020) underscore, the benefits of an increase would flow overwhelmingly to those—young workers, single parents, workers of color—who need it the most.
While much of our social and tax policy is either poorly targeted (it reaches the poor unevenly) or aimed in in the wrong direction (it benefits those who don’t need it), a minimum wage increase hits the bull’s-eye. As EPI’s new estimates of the impact of the “Raise the Wage Act” (bringing the minimum to $12.00/hour by 2020) underscore, the benefits of an increase would flow overwhelmingly to those—young workers, single parents, workers of color—who need it the most.