Sunday, July 24th, 2011
Multiemployer benefit plans, writes Paul Secunda, “once represented one of the greatest triumphs in American labor relations in providing employee benefits to workers of small employers in itinerant industries (such as in building and construction, trucking, retail, and the entertainment industry).” In a new paper on SSRN, Paul explores three ...
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Sunday, July 17th, 2011
Some politicians say they don’t pay attention to what polls show. Gov. Scott Walker is one of them. Most of those who say that actually do pay attention to polls. I assume Walker is one of them. That’s certainly as good a way as I can think of to explain ...
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Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
The Seventh Circuit had an interesting new decision a couple weeks ago on the Sixth Amendment right to choice of counsel, United States v. Sellers (No. 09-2516). Among other notable aspects of the case, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day OConnor sat on the panel. Here’s what happened: Sellers initially ...
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Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
As an Iowa farm kid, I grew up eating pork, beef and chicken, with the occasional seafood and venison thrown in. But I appreciate the principles of Meatless Monday, a non-profit initiative of the Monday Campaigns, in association with the Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg School of Public Health. Its goal is ...
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Monday, July 11th, 2011
I made a sloppy error in the section of the blog item posted Monday rounding up some recent education news. I named Downtown Montessori as a voucher school where many parents opted to have their children not take Wisconsins standardized exams. I meant to say Milwaukee Montessori, a private school on the ...
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Saturday, July 9th, 2011
At DMU, our faculty believe research is vital, and students are vital to research. A demonstration of that belief is DMUs mentored student research program, which gives student researchers the opportunity to share highlights of their findings. They will present their research today in DMUs Olsen Medical Education Center ...
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