CBS Money Watch Report: Teen employment drops in Illinois Teen employment in Illinois last year dropped to its lowest level in more than 40 years, with minorities and youth from low-income homes among the hardest hit, according to a report released Tuesday.
Chicago Tribune Report: 2011 teen employment drops to 27.5 percent in Ill., down from nearly 50 percent in ’99 Teen employment in Illinois last year dropped to its lowest level in more than 40 years, with minorities and youth from low-income homes among the hardest hit, according to a report released Tuesday.
Examiner Rabid sports fans no different than our political culture In sports, when a mistake costs a team the game, no one feels worse than the player who made the mistake. So does that player need hate mail? We’re talkin’ REAL hateful mail.
The Hill Don’t rewire filibuster rules It is hard to disagree with the headline on Bill Galston and Mark McKinnon’s op-ed in The Hill on Jan. 17: Time for up-or-down votes in Senate on appointees. The recent, highly partisan tit-for-tat demeans senators and the president, intensifies the polarization of the parties and deepens the publicâs cynicism about Washington.
Know Your Professor Until now, college students mostly have relied on word of mouth, professors’ reputations, previous student evaluations and the often rude and anonymous comments (complete with a “hotness” ranking) on RateMyProfessors.com before choosing a professor for a particular class.
10 Years Later: Breaking Down The Mass. Clergy Sex Abuse Scandal Ten years after the clergy sex abuse crisis hit the news, we talk with two reporters who were instrumental in uncovering the scandal, WBURâs Sacha Pfeiffer and Northeastern University distinguished professor Walter V. Robinson, who won a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting on the subject.
Pot-based prescription drug looks for FDA OK A quarter-century after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first prescription drugs based on the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, additional medicines derived from or inspired by the cannabis plant itself could soon be making their way to pharmacy shelves, according to drug companies, small biotech firms and university scientists.
Working Poor USA Millions of people in the U.S. work and are still poor. Here are eight points that show why the U.S. needs to dedicate itself to making work pay.
O Captain! My Captain! Whoever heard of the Costa Concordia? Now, we all know its name. And the infamy - so far - of its “I’m out of here” captain, Francesco Schettino.
General Studies: Nuts and Bolts General studies takes various shapes. But many programs are aimed at students who are not accepted elsewhere in the university and referred by admissions. If in good standing on completion, they can transition into the larger university.
Ars Technica Educators hope Apple’s textbook foray will begin a “learning revolution” On Thursday morning, Apple announced a series of related initiatives designed to modernize learning based around its iPad tablet. Apple is hoping to “reinvent textbooks” and change the way we learn with an updated iBooks 2 app, which works with interactive textbooks built with the iBooks Author desktop app, and an expansion of iTunes U […]
Mass. jobless rate falls to 6.8%, lowest in three years The Massachusetts unemployment rate last month fell below 7 percent for the first time in three years, but employers cut jobs – a sign that the stateâs economy may be slowing after a burst of growth early last year.