Sometimes having fewer people to do the job might mean more work for the employees but a lower bottom line for the payroll.You have a store to staff, for example. You want 10 people to work from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. You only have five. You shuffle those around, have a little less coverage at ...
Until recently, the last time a member of the vaunted Kennedy family was in presidential campaign mode was on the evening of Aug. 12, 1980, in New York City. The occasion was that year’s Democratic convention.It was Jimmy Carter’s convention (sort of) but Ted Kennedy’s night. The senator ...
[email protected] 1 in 5 adults in the United States – 21% of the population – is living with a mental illness.And mental health issues among children and adolescents have skyrocketed in recent years, with an estimated 1 in 6 children annually experiencing a mental health ...
Joe Biden has done so many things well – saving Ukraine, confronting China, signing a bipartisan gun control bill. And in a week of right-wing crazytown, he stood out as a comforting keeper of stability.But there’s one thing he hasn’t gotten right: curbing the chaos at the border. The ...
It’s now been three years since COVID hit.At the start of the pandemic, “experts” shouted: “Stay home!” “Close schools!” “Wash your hands!” “Disinfect countertops!”Clearly, disinfecting countertops and washing hands made no difference. What about closing schools and ...
From all those lists of best books of 2022, here’s one with the potential to change public policy debate and discourse for the better. It’s “The Myth of American Inequality,” and the three authors are two Ph.D. economists, former Sen. Phil Gramm and his long-ago Texas A&M ...
