Dystopia, Collage & Acrylic on Matte Board, 11” x 14”
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Prison Economics Help Drive Arizona Immigration Law
NPR– For all the attention given to Arizona’s immigration law, one part of the story is not well-known. The state approved a law last April to answer concerns about illegal immigrants. The new law fueled a national debate, and this morning we’ll tell you who drafted that law.
Read full transcript HERE.
Photo by flickr user Casey Serin
© NPR, 2010
Prison Economics Help Drive Arizona Immigration Law
NPR– For all the attention given to Arizona’s immigration law, one part of the story is not well-known. The state approved a law last April to answer concerns about illegal immigrants. The new law fueled a national debate, and this morning we’ll tell you who drafted that law.
Read full transcript HERE.
Photo by Casey Serin flickr user
Yemen Officials: Packages Didn’t Come From Yemen
ANTI WAR– With the eyes of the world on Yemen and officials pointing the finger squarely at the al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) group based in the nation’s south, Yemen’s government is cautioning against jumping to conclusions, and denying that the bomb plot packages came from Yemen at all.
“No UPS or DHL cargo packages heading to Chicago through Yemen took place in the last 48 hours,” insisted Yemenia Airways’ Air Cargo Director Mohammed Shaibah. Officials with the nation’s Civil Aviation Authority insisted that no US cargo aircrafts left the nation at all in the past 48 hours.
All reports have indicated that the packages were marked as having come from Yemen. It is unclear exactly how to reconcile this with the Yemeni government’s claims that they couldn’t possibly have originated there.
The various “suspicious packages” included some which tested positive for explosives and others with included printed circuit boards and wires. The exact nature of the plot remains a mystery as officials are still examining all of the devices and running tests on the apparent explosive payloads. Whatever the case, it seems clear the Yemeni government is eager to deflect attention.
Written by Jason Ditz
Janitors With Ph.D.s: Spending Too Much on Higher Education
ALTERNET– For politicians, boosting college graduation rates has always been a
fairly uncontroversial goal to support. The Obama administration is
doing so, rather relentlessly, through a number of initiatives designed to better prepare students for college and support them once they get there.
The assumptions are 1) that students who graduate from college have increased potential for economic mobility, and 2) the more students who earn college degrees, the more our economy will grow. But are either of those assumptions still true, in light of our new economic reality? Or are we wasting money investing in a sector that’s producing thousands of janitors with Ph.D.s?
One thing’s for sure: our higher education system has produced thousands of janitors with Ph.D.s or other professional degrees — about 5,057 of them, in fact, plus more than 8,000 waiters and waitresses. When you look at all college degrees, there are more than 317,000 over-educated Americans serving us our meals, more than 80,000 shaking our martinis and some 62,000 mowing our lawns.
In all, about 17 million people in this country have completed college only to end up working jobs that require a skill level below that of a bachelors degree, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics
You can be sure that many college-educated McDonald’s workers have career goals that they’ve been unable to achieve because of the nation’s crippling 22.5% underemployment rate; some of them will, theoretically (and hopefully), move into their intended career one day. But what of the millions of people who don’t switch over to careers that require a degree, either by choice or because of circumstance?
Read full article HERE.
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