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...restaurants, mail centers, and hotels that HUDS employees have come to rely on. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the national leisure and hospitality industry has shrunk by approximately 500,000 employees since January 2008, and the total weekly hours worked by all employees dropped 7 percent over that same time period before experiencing slight gains last month...
Black, female, and a single parent, April is herself an anomaly in the ivory tower. There are around 250 student parents in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences—a number that represents fewer than 7 percent of the school’s roughly 3,700 students. Black, female scientists are rarer. Single parents are rarer still...
Today, that figure is 45 percent. The academy’s doors are being thrown open as never before to diverse populations of aspiring scholars...
...leaders, the Republican Party has come roaring back into competition. The stakes are high in November; national opinion surveys show a two-percentage point GOP edge, and some polls even suggest that the Republicans could retake the Senate. Obama’s approval ratings have fallen by 24 percent in less than a year, in spite of having achieved his top legislative priority and overseeing a successful stabilization of the banking industry. Yes, the American people do tend to check their leaders by issuing them losses in midterm elections, but Obama’s performance doesn’t merit...
...budget proposal calls for an appending level—the amount the city manager allocates for the public schools—of $137.5 million, which represents an increase of $3.7 million over Fiscal Year 2010. Salaries comprise around 77.5 percent, or about $107 million...