A larger narrative on lobbying reform and corporate responsibility has to emerge from this string of recent mining disasters. Corporate influence on public policy has undermined safety standards in multiple industries, and now very publicly in mining. Finally the Senate has declared they’ll hold hearings on the Crandall Canyon Mining Disaster and require co-owners Robert […]
Well here’s proof that it actually is a forced choice: Sixty percent of married mothers of preschool children are now in the work force, four percentage points fewer than in 1997. The rate for married mothers of infants fell by about six percentage points, to 53.5 percent. The bureau further reports that the declines “have […]
Angsty moment of the day came when I read an article in the Times, the most popular article in the Times today actually, about how horrifyingly informal students are in their emails to professors. The entire section of responses to the article was comprised of professor-written letters. Reminded of how horrifyingly informal my professors and […]