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...well educated workforce it will need. Harvard economics professors Claudia Godin and Lawrence Katz have estimated that increasing education led to a 0.37-percent rise in productivity among American workers since 1915. Education cuts threaten to stifle this growth and jeopardize American productivity and long-run economic expansion. This effect could be particularly disastrous given that local political factors often prevent education cuts from being easily reversed. If shrinking budgets like those being implemented by the Boston School Department take effect during this recession and are not ended once it ends, the effect on productivity could be devastating...
...provisions in the president’s pay limit, now confirmed by the Treasury, will only have a limited effect. The government’s restrictions on executive compensation are firm, with opportunities for additional compensation only through the unpalatable option of restricted stock. The total savings to taxpayers, however, cannot be immense, mostly because the Treasury provisions have a narrow application. First, the provisions will not apply to the $350 billion of bailout funds already spent or allocated. Second, the provisions bypass large-time traders, brokers, and consultants, whose salary and bonuses often surpass the half-million-dollar limit...
...Many abortion-rights supporters have claimed that the policy decreased the amount and quality of American aid for reproductive health abroad. The first objection is groundless. The rules had no effect on the size of appropriations; they merely redirected funds and resources formerly given to non-compliant groups to those that accepted the provisions. The second has some footing. When the policy came into force some major reproductive health providers, particularly some affiliates of the International Planned Parenthood Federation refused to participate, although 44 ultimately chose to. This intransigence, however, was entirely self-imposed and absurdly doctrinaire—after...
...experts all agree that Khan's release is a terrible signal. "There are others in the Pakistani establishment who have access to sensitive materials, and we would have liked them to know that there would be consequences to any misuse," says Levi. "But Khan's release undermines any deterrent effect." (See pictures of A. Q. Khan's nuclear bazaar...
...motion will go before the full Faculty next Tuesday for a final vote. If approved, the policy would go into effect for next year’s incoming freshmen, the Class of 2013—also the first class that will be uniformly subject to the new General Education requirements...