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New Study Indicates Welfare Increases Employment, Contrary to Conservative Beliefs
Research shows that receiving government aid may actually motivate people to find work; civilian videos of cop brutality are playing an increasingly important role in the carrying out of justice, but the act is not necessarily considered a right by law; meanwhile, the oldest neanderthal ever found was discovered recently in Italy. These discoveries and more below.
The Clinton Dynasty’s Horrific Legacy: How ‘Tough-on-Crime’ Politics Built the World’s Largest Prison System
Over the past two decades, the Clintons’ version of the “War on Drugs” has inflicted needless suffering on millions.
The Legal Right to Videotape Police Isn’t Actually All That Clear
And that includes in South Carolina.
The Beginning of the American Spring
At a conference Friday about the Israel lobby in Washington, remarks the likes of which are rarely heard in the United States were made.
Oldest Neanderthal DNA Found in Italian Skeleton
The calcite-encrusted skeleton of an ancient human, still embedded in rock deep inside a cave in Italy, has yielded the oldest Neanderthal DNA ever found.
The Consolation of Asceticism
When we talk about working conditions in the university, we often compare today’s job market with the labor practices that prevailed only a generation or two ago.
A ‘Darker Narrative’ of Print’s Future From Clay Shirky
A column I wrote last month on the enduring importance of the printed newspaper to The Times drew a response from an incisive thinker about media and technology, Clay Shirky.
Welfare May Actually Encourage Recipients to Work, New Study Suggests
Science and politics don’t always mix.
Maryland CPS Detains ‘Free-Range Kids.’ Again.
Danielle and Alexander (Sasha) Meitiv, the causes célèbre of the “free-range parenting” movement, are back in the news—and back under investigation—after their children were again picked up by police for playing unattended in Montgomery County, Maryland.
Someone Calculated How Many Adjunct Professors Are on Public Assistance, and the Number Is Startling
Once in a while, someone publishes an article about adjunct professors who resort to food stamps in order to survive on the rock-bottom pay that so many college instructors are expected to live on.
In Defense of a New Kind of Labor Movement
Tom Geoghegan recently gave a full-throated defense of unions—and laid out the case for a new kind of labor movement in the United States.
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- April 10, 2015 Cop Cam
Source: http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/study_indicates_welfare_increases_employment_contrary_conservative_20150414/
