President Obama pushed free trade agreements with South Korea, Panama and Columbia as part of his jobs-creating legislation. Congress went along for the ride because this was the only path where Republicans and Democrats could agree. But this path is the wrong path. This is trade insanity. Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same [...]
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It’s all about Jobs. Steve Jobs. Although he was brilliant, creative and a successful CEO, he had one flaw: he outsourced Apple. Mr. Jobs could have created a hundred thousand jobs in the United States, but instead he created them in China and Korea. Apple can still move many of those jobs back to the [...]
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There’s a young woman in the senior class at Tougaloo College in Mississippi who has hit the financial wall. “She’s a high honor student, a leader on campus who has done everything right. But she and her family are simply out of money,” said Dr. Beverly Hogan, President of Tougaloo, which is one of the [...]
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When Charles Best was a young high school history teacher in the Bronx, New York, he found himself and his fellow teachers having conversations in the lunchroom about what they’d love to do with their students – if they had the resources to do them. Best came up with an idea to seek what he [...]
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Imagine this. You are in your senior year at college, you are the first person in your family ever to go to college and you’ve run out of money. Your family can’t help and the credit crunch has squeezed private school loans off the market. If you are Dr. Wesley McClure, President of Lane College [...]
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A national child advocacy organization says the sex scandal at Penn State is fueling parental paranoia, along with phony statistics and over the top warnings about child abuse. “We don’t need hype that turns every adult into a potential threat,” says Richard Wexler, executive director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform. According to [...]
Follow Up The Sierra Club has taken issue with media reports of the reasons why Carl Pope stepped down as the organization’s chairman. In a letter to the Los Angeles Times, the Sierra Club indicated there was nothing surprising about Pope’s departure and that its board had known for three years that he was planning [...]
Two major national environmental organizations are undergoing big changes. The Sierra Club announced that its chairman has stepped down. Carl Pope’s departure comes as the Sierra Club faces declining membership, internal dissent and opposition to many of its programs in Congress. Meanwhile, the Wilderness Society announced it is going to lay off 17 percent of [...]
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