Citylab.com has published a very interesting article detailing the compelling benefits of hiring ex-offenders. My first thought was, would you do this? Well, employers that have done so have reaped considerable benefit from the practice. Employees with criminal records are less likely to quit, reducing turnover costs. They have fewer disciplinary problems, reducing disciplinary costs….
Category: politics
Four More Years, Mr. President!
Tonight on msnbc.com I’m excited for the President. Despite some of my concerns on some of the social issues, I’m happy that we’ve got four more years of the Obama administration. Congratulations, Mr. President!
why are we asking the wrong questions about education?!?
[I’m warning you now, this is probably the longest blog post I’ve ever written, but my passion on the issue requires it…] The Chicago Teachers’ strike is compelling news to me for a number of reasons. [For example, why did the union not give parents and students more lead time that a strike might be…
#64 van jones at powershift
i heard a clip of van jones’s powershift keynote while listening to amy goodman while getting out the door yesterday morning. i’m still processing his words, but he said something that i found very important to study: “our economy runs on death. every day we pull death out of the ground and burn it”… here’s…
#47
As I’m reading a Washington post opinion article about Vice-President Gore, my interest in his new book, The Assault on Reason, becomes increasingly piqued. There is one thing Milbank’s opinion that annoys me intensely: the notion that the American public cannot vote for someone smarter than they are… Now, Milbank doesn’t quite say it like…