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...Massachusetts specifically increased correctional spending by 127% so that it now rivals spending even on public universities. Our courts can’t keep up with the deluge of trials and appeals. And still, rather than stop and wonder whether mass incarceration is actually keeping us safe, states plunges forward blindly, building more prisons, double bunking inmates, making it even harder for people with records to get jobs and housing, and cutting rehabilitation services for people with addictions and without high school diplomas and job skills...
...wasn’t about to ask for the lighter again. My relief was brief. I embarked on the first of many biweekly white-knuckle rides, in which my alarmingly Zach Braff-esque professor managed to make his lectures sound like a single ninety-minute long Spanish word.Fast-forward a few months to Election Day, although it was already evening in the brightly lit classroom. The professor bustled in, characteristically tardy, and turned to me, the only American. He exchanged some thoughts about the election, saying that I must be excited, asking if I’d voted. His speedy...
...plan goes forward, it is important that our money goes to the right places. Obama’s dedication to creating private sector jobs is laudable, and will avoid inflating the public sector. In this way, the jobs he creates in competitive industries will be permanent. Constant oversight of the plan’s funds is necessary to ensure that they are spent as efficiently as possible...
...really meant to give legislators another forum to communicate with voters. "You can host a floor speech, a press conference, a town hall - you can really do a lot with this medium," says Hammill. True, but we're going to bet that not a lot of viewers will forward clips of a town hall...
...structurally deficient. Before Hurricane Katrina, the Army Corps of Engineers spent more money in Louisiana than in any other state - most of it on useless and destructive navigation projects with influential godfathers in Congress - but it never completed those levees around New Orleans. Now the stimulus could include forward-looking efforts to help rebuild the city's natural and man-made defenses - or more-of-the-same projects that would increase the risk of another expensive as well as tragic catastrophe. It will depend on who is calling the shots...