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...hardly the first example of the Administration's creative wordplay. A recent report by Bush's economic team questioned whether burger-flipping jobs, now part of the service sector, ought to be reclassified as manufacturing jobs, a change that would have enabled the White House to claim that manufacturing-job losses aren't as bad as they look. That idea appears to have died. Bush's Labor Department also wants to allow employers to reclassify some middle-income workers as white collar managers, rendering them ineligible for overtime pay. Bush's Energy Department, meanwhile, wants to reduce the cost...
Students at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) launched a campaign this week to raise funds for a popular but cash-strapped program that provides aid to graduates who take low-paying public sector jobs...
...because fewer Kennedy School graduates were entering the public sector, Nye loosened LRAP’s eligibility requirements so that graduates earning up to $50,000 a year in government and nonprofit jobs could collect benefits...
Mortimer B. Zuckerman, owner of US News and World Report, announced Thursday that he will donate $10 million to Harvard University for a graduate fellowship program designed to attract students who have studied law, business or medicine to the public sector...
...years, Aristotle International has become one of the most influential, if invisible, private-sector players in politics. Its newest software for candidates, grass-roots organizations and political-action committees, the company boasts, provides users with a shortcut to information that would typically require 20 years' experience in political-campaign work to gather. Clients can search Aristotle's database of 157 million voters, campaign donors, fund raisers and others, drilling for untapped supporters. The company tries to be "scrupulously bipartisan," says a spokesman, and sees itself as a utility, similar to an Internet provider, that sells to anybody...