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by | Sep 17, 2012 | Blog

Mayor's reputation tarnished in teachers union dust-up The measure of who won and lost in Mayor Rahm Emanuel's showdown with the Chicago Teachers Union won't be clear until the details of the new contract emerge, but last week's strike took some of the luster off the...

Teacher Bashing: The Inequality Psychology

by | Sep 16, 2012 | Blog

In any society where wealth and income concentrate overwhelmingly at the top, the affluent will almost always come to sneer at public services and the men and women who provide them. In Chicago, those men and women have pushed back. Last year state lawmakers in...

So Who Is It That Cares About The Deficit Anyway?

by | Sep 14, 2012 | Blog

Your reading assignment is this great piece in the New York Review of Books by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson entitled What Krugman & Stiglitz Can Tell Us. There's a lot to it, but I homed in on this particular piece: A majority of Americans have consistently told...

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