Over at HorsesAss, Darryl has posted his analysis of recent polling in our state. I recommend that you read the post by Darryl, 10/31/2011, at HorsesAss For the most part there are no surprises. The perspective for the 012 election looks shaky. The economy is the number one issue for voters. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Economy’
Will Congress Cut Salaries For UW School of Medicine Faculty?
The Scientist reports that the House draft of a budget for the NIH would cut the maximun salary for a Principal Investigator (PI) by 17%, from $199,700 to $165,300. This cut would have its most obvious effect on federal support for MD scientists. Because salaries for MDs are much higher t[...]
NAOMI KLEIN speaks to the 99%
Naomi Klein to Occupy Wall Street: Get Organized By Nick Pinto – October 13th, 2011 Published in The Village Voice. Naomi Klein, the Canadian journalist famous for her anti-corporatist books No Logo and The Shock Doctrine, spoke to the protesters at Occupy Wall Street yesterday evening,[...]
Is the NIH Imploding?
IMAGINE THE REACTION TO A 50% CUT IN DEFENSE! That is the REALITY at the NIH. IMAGINE THE REACTION TO A 50% CUT IN DEFENSE! That is the REALITY at the NIH. Figures just published on Genomeweb look grim. The good news is that the NIH grant success rate is now 17.4%. The bad news […][...]
Movie Review: post apocalypse documentary of an American city.
My Cultural Landscape: One of the stranger and more eerily disturbing documentaries seen at this year’s San Francisco International Film Festival was Detroit Wild City. Written and directed by Florent Tillon, the film features some wonderful archival footage in addition to battered landscape[...]
BERKELEY BLOG
How to create more jobs by lowering wages: Texas and America Robert Reich, professor of public policy | 9/14/11 Perry and Romney can duke it out over who created the most jobs, but governors have as much influence over job growth in their states as roosters do over sunrises. States don’t have thei[...]
Republican Government
THIS IS THE ONE THING YOU’LL SUPPORT? Program That Lets Jobless Work For Free Gets Key Backing From Paul Ryan …. Huff Post Meanwhile in Britain (from the Independent): Tens of thousands of benefits claimants will be referred to food banks by the Government, which is worried that many B[...]
September 14th, 2011 - 8:21 am § in America
Bastiat proposed to the King of France that he “forbid all loyal subjects to use their right hands.”
If manufacturing job losses are a “problem” due to technology and productivity gains, an effective “solution” would be to forbid all American workers from using their right hands. By adopting Bastiat’s proposal, we could immediately stop the “cratering” of[...]
September 6th, 2011 - 12:53 am § in Schools & Colleges
What Is A College Degree Worth?
This really is two questions. First, what is the intrinsic worth of a college degree? Second, what is it worth in the marketplace? For students who have gone deeply in debt to finance their higher education, the answer to the second question has great practical significance. For all of us together, [...]
No Free Lunch, No Cheap Drugs
Xconomy News: Weston, MA-based Biogen Idec, the largest maker of injectable treatments for multiple sclerosis, met its goals in a second clinical trial for an oral pill to treat the disease. The pill reduced flare-ups by 44 percent when taken twice per day, and by 51 percent if taken three times a[...]