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...Title IX amendment was intended to guarantee equality in college athletics, especially between men and women. However, the only measures of equality that are possible to calculate are statistics on paper like the amount of college sports offered to both sexes, the provision of equipment and practice time and space, and funding per player for things like coaches, travel, and publicity...
...trends will produce “an astonishing transfer of wealth from the poorest people in the country…to the richest.” Borjas’ findings have been challenged by David Card, a Berkeley economist, who argues that immigration raises average wages by increasing the amount of availabe capital. He also claims that the least skilled workers—those who Borjas says are the hardest hit—suffer no loss of wages as a result of immigration. Card’s basic findings are echoed by other economists.At the least, we should be suspicious...
...possibility for a career that pays bills and is really creatively stimulating,” says Baum. “It is true that theater companies don’t recruit at the Charles Hotel or the Inn at Harvard and buy everyone lunch. While it takes a certain amount of industriousness to find your own way, it really is possible — particularly in Los Angeles...
...whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” causing world-wide famine and the death of “hundreds of millions of people” annually from starvation. Oops—in the subsequent 35 years, increased agricultural productivity exceeded population growth and the total amount of cultivated land barely increased...
...only one of close to 370 immigrant-related bills proposed in 42 states across the U.S. this year. These include the Ohio Unity English Act, which would require all state and local government documents to be in English only, a Kansas bill that would dramatically reduce the amount of taxpayer money spent on social services for illegal immigrants, and a Maine proposal to require proof of citizenship in order to get a driver's license. Not all, however, are restrictive; a bill in Wyoming would increase educational opportunities for illegal immigrants. The reason for all this legislative activity...