As the Brookings Institution noted, the study can't tell us whether student loans are more stressful than other kinds of debt. The size of the measured effect was also rather small.
This is a report from Bernie Sanders who is on the Budget Committee. It is 12 pages long with lots of charts and history. It is a must read because we are going to see a real messy fight on this before the end of the 2 years. I would also book mark it and pass it on to others. You will want to refer back too it when the dog fight starts.
He is really a cool President. He made a BuzzFeed video that came out yesterday. He has done more to reach out to us on the Internet and pave the way for future Presidents to connect with the people. Last month he did you tube interview with young you tube stars. He really looks like he was enjoying himself. Ha also look like he was having fun last month too.
The video was about everything everyone does but don't talk about. It is to promote the dead line coming up for signing up for ACA. Thanks Obama for the ACA.
We are just now beginning to understand the terror that south committed against African Americans after the civil war. This is a good read.
For me to see the counties in Florida listed as where the most lynching took place explains how today they are willing to send the bat shit crazy house reps to Congress.
Now that Walker is under the national eye watching him because of his latest polling in the GOP primary rodeo, his over micro management of Wisconsin is going to come to light. Wisconsin right leaning media has always given him a pass on all his attempts at cover ups. He tried to change the most famous and well known university mission statement in this country,"The Wisconsin Idea. " It has been around since Robert LaFollette was governor of Wisconsin a 111 years ago.
This is a beautiful time laps of the eruption of Bardarbunga in Iceland from Jan. 31 to Feb. 2. The poem was written and read by Leslie Robson Gumpf. Enjoy the beautiful natural art.
Researchers used carbon 14 to locate it because oil doesn't have carbon 14. It showed up as dark spots on the bottom of the gulf. This was a joint study by several gulf state universities.
Yesterday the US Census Bureau released a press report on the amount of children receiving food stamps. This is on their annual Families and Living Arrangements report. The press release is titled "One in Five Children Receive Food Stamps, Census Bureau Reports."
That is 16 million kids who's families rely on food stamps. This report came out on the heels of a report by the Southern Education Foundations, which reported that 51% of children in school is living in poverty. These numbers are sobering. What this is telling us that even though wealth has increased since the great recession that a large part of out society has not recovered. We have more families now in this group then we had in 2007.
If you woke up this fine Tuesday morning to find much less snow than forecasters predicted, you're likely one of the thousands of angry people sprinting to the computer to voice your outrage—outrage!!!—that those lowlife, idiotic, goodfernothin' meteorologists can't get anything right. Here's why you're wrong.
Last Thursday, January 22, 2015, President Obama was interviewed by three popular you tube personalities at the Whitehouse. The three vloggers that had the honor were Hank Green, GloZell Green and Bethany Mota with a combined audience of about 15 million viewers. What is historic is that this is a first for a President to recognize the value of the internet social media to reach out to a younger population.
He can't run for both Senate and President at the same time in Florida. He maybe just raising money for his Senate race. He was originally being groomed by the Bush machine for a run as president but that fell apart when he ran for the Senate. He found himself on the outs with JEB.
Jeb is not going to have an easy time running for President in Florida. The Tampa Times is already reminding people about what he did as Governor. It has been a long time since he was in office here.
The majority of students in K thru 12 are now living in low income according to a new report from the Southern Education Foundation. The data was collected by the NCES (National Center of Education Statistics.)
This has been building up for years. In 1989, it was less then 32%. Then in 2000, it reached 38%. Now, 51% of children are at a disadvantage. We can no longer ignore the reality of this for the future of our economy and society as a whole. Evie Blade a staff writer for Education Weekly in her article "New Milestone: Majority of Public School Students Now Considered Low Income" writes:
I guess we will see how he does in the clown car or at the goat rodeo.
But president? So far the most prominent GOP official to raise the idea has been Joe Gruters, a county official in Sarasota whose boosterism earned some chuckles.
Sen. Sanders (I-VT) and the Democratic caucus are already upsetting the plans of the Republican Senate majority. Republicans were under the impression that they were going to be able to pass legislation by rolling over Democrats. This has not happened. Congressional Democrats and the Independents who caucus with them have united with the president against the Republican plans.
The author is Dr. Emilye Crosby a professor at SUNY Genesee that teaches history of Civil Rights, African American History and Women's History.
The article covers who was involved in bringing MLK to Selma 50 years ago. It is interesting because of the women who were involved locally in getting African American willing to register to vote and later bring in Southern Christian Leadership Council.
Krugman explains why the ruble has fallen more then the deflation of the price of oil. He looks at all the debt that the oligarchs has accumulated out side of Russia. All this debt is held in foreign currency and not in rubles. Normally this type of currency crash happens when high foreign debt is caused by government over borrowing and low exports. This is not the case because exports have been high in Russia and government borrowing low. The private sector has been accumulating assets out side of Russia with heavy borrowing.
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