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...California Assemblyman Marty Block has also sought government intervention, and in January considered proposing legislation to establish a statewide egg-donor registry. But realizing that such a costly endeavor would have little chance for success given the state's budget woes, Block settled on a more recession-friendly action. In late February, he presented a bill that would require all advertisements promising thousands of dollars to egg donors to carry some fine print. It would inform women that there's not much information on the long-term risks of donating...
...recent study from the National Bureau of Economic Research provides promising data to back up such a policy change. Conducted by economists at the University of California and Columbia University, the decade-long study found that high-school freshmen who attended school within a block of fast-food restaurants were markedly more likely to be obese than those whose schools were farther away when adjusted for variables like income and race. Similar results applied when researchers tracked obesity rates before and after the opening of a new fast-food outlet in the area...
...early debates with Senator John McCain, President Obama famously declared that the government needed to use a “scalpel” instead of a “hatchet” to reduce spending. The state of California, however, seems to have no problem with using a hatchet to address its current budget crisis. As of mid-March, the government will have issued over 25,000 pink slips to teachers statewide, to the outrage of teachers, parents, and students alike...
...Certainly, tough times call for tough measures, and, with layoffs a common occurrence in the private sector, it is unreasonable for the public sector to pass completely unspared. The problem is the manner in which teachers are laid off—as dictated by the California Education Code, teachers are fired based on seniority, so that the last hired are the first to go. This system of indiscriminately cutting from the bottom up means that schools are likely to lose many of their bright, young, and energetic teachers, to the detriment of their students...
...Soccer is busy, too with MLS in full swing and the U.S. men's team in World Cup qualifying. Somehow, the WPS has to break through. "The league really has to catch fire early," says David Carter, executive director of the Sports Business Institute at the University of Southern California...