Watch The Dust Bowl Preview on PBS. See more from The Dust Bowl. By Justin Rubiogen (TheVerge) Ken Burns has teamed up with PBS to deliver Dust Bowl, a documentary showcasing the events that took place during the dreadful era, while also providing an example of what can happen if we aren’t smart about how we pull [...]
(Nieman Journalism Lab) We just went through a highly fact-checked election, but it’s unclear what the final score was between truth and fiction. One reason why myths persist is that fact-checking is often out-of-reach at the moment it would be most useful — like the moment where you open your inbox. Forwarding an email is [...]
By Claudia Meléndez Salinas (Herald) A former teacher at the Carmelo School has filed a lawsuit against the school and the Carmel Unified School District for discrimination and wrongful termination for the school’s failure to accommodate her needs as a new mother. In the lawsuit filed Oct. 30, Sarah Ann Lewis Boyle of Pacific Grove said her [...]
By Adam Hartung (Forbes) The common viewpoint is that Republicans are good for business, which is good for the economy. Republican policies — and the more Adam Smith, invisible hand, limited regulation, lassaiz faire the better— are expected to create a robust, healthy, growing economy. Meanwhile, the common view of Democrat policies is that they too [...]
(Columbia Business School) New research from Professor Andreas Mueller digs deeper to not only provide strong evidence that high-wage workers are disproportionately impacted in recessions but also to explain why firms seem so overeager to shed their most productive workers. He finds that even controlling for education, work experience, gender, and other easily observable characteristics [...]