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There is no universal cure for poverty, but there are ways to provide the kind of help that allows people to feed their children, or keep working. One place to start is supporting Initiative 1098, adding an income tax on the wealthiest 1.2 percent of Washington households that would generate money for education and health care.
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Seattle Times staff columnist
Marieka Klawitter
Marieka Klawitter has less help and more work than she did before the Great Recession, but she's not complaining.
Klawitter, an economist who studies policies that affect work and income, is more concerned about people who don't have a job to complain about.
Most people are feeling some economic hurt, but this is a particularly difficult time for poor people. It could
A new report maps out the different scenarios in which California can emerge from its current state of crisis. It also seeks to engage all Californians, hoping citizens of the state will thoughtfully explore the issues and potential solutions to the problems the state faces.
Dubbed "California Dreaming: Imagining New Futures for the State," the full report is available in PDF format.
The Institute for the Future produced the report and map in collaboration with California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology and the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society.
According to the report:
An interest group logs a letter with a legislator in support of a bill. A day before the vote, the same group donates a few thousand bucks to the lawmaker who carries it, then maybe a few other key committee members for good measure. All the lawmakers vote yes. The bill passes.
Seems a little fishy, right?
Quid pro quo in government is rarely so simple,
Thursday, September 30th 2010, 4:00 AM
A Queens kindergartner was stuck walking the halls after his school's attempts to prevent overcrowding left him without a classroom, his mom said.
Hector Ramsammy's mom fought the Public School 95 principal for two weeks to get her son a seat in his zoned school, where his sister and two brothers go.
After a vicious battle - during which staffers called the Administration for Children's Services on Hector's mom for abandoning him at the school - officials agreed to enroll Hector.
Then they left him to sit alone with a teacher all day and walk the halls with the staffer during lunch.
"They have me walking around the hallway. They have me walking, Mommy," Hector, 5, told his mother, Nadia Ramsammy, 40, of
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In response to revelations that her LinkedIn profile features false claims about attending Claremont Graduate University and the University of Oxford, Republican candidate for the United State Senate Christine O’Donnell issued a statement through a P.R. firm alleging that other, unknown persons created her false LinkeIn profile back when she was a little-known cable news commentator / ex-anti-masturbation activist , and, moreover:
Perhaps a more important educational issue for Americans is the government takeover of the student loan industry, passed as part of the Obamacare law. This ill-conceived, unconstitutional government monopoly has thrown into jeopardy thousands of jobs in the private student loan
ICEF representatives and others said the group's budget problems were caused by insufficient
Education Commissioner Dwight Jones discussed his status as one of three finalists for the Las Vegas, Nev., schools. Sept. 16, 2010.
The Clark County school board Wednesday evening chose Colorado education Commissioner Dwight Jones as its next superintendent, formally voting 6-1 to open negotiations with him for the Nevada job.
The only no vote was cast by trustee Linda Young, who said she objected to the speed of the selection process, not necessarily to Jones.
