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Advocates for the status quo worry that students who are forced into community colleges for remedial classes will never make it to four-year universities. They point to studies showing that only about a quarter of community-college students transfer to four-year schools within five years. "Some of our...
PBS argues that its documentary and public-service work is very relevant. And it argues that its tame entertainment programming is valuable because it's free and uncommercial. But tax money aside, nothing is free here--just look at the pledge drives, the corporate crypto ads, and the costume dramas...
A: On one level, no. One study showed a .4% increase in the number of impoverished Americans in 2001 over the year before, the first rise since 1993. The second recorded a 2.2% decrease in the median U.S. income, to $42,228. Hardly surprising. When there's a recession, people...
Something about as rare as the alignment of the outer planets was under way in the Capitol last Wednesday: Tom Daschle was mad, really mad. The famously unflappable Senate majority leader had stormed into an aide's office that morning sputtering, "This is outrageous!" Then he raged some more during...
In March 2000, the Arizona Democratic Party experimented with online voting through election.com and had a 600 percent rise in voting, with rises of up to 1,000 percent in heavily Hispanic districts. The system was very convenient—it was secure, provided instant returns and minimal rejected ballots...