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Tricom welcomes three new organizations to our client family: the Eldercare Workforce Alliance, the Steel Valley Authority and the American Federation of School Administrators. Read more...
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Years of off-shoring American manufacturing has exacerbated the worst U.S. economic crisis since the Great Depression, undermining the U.S. position in the global economy, the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) said today at Netroots Nation, appealing to Congress and the Obama administration to enact a series of measures to implement a national manufacturing strategy. Read more...
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The results are in. Onslow County students using smart phones in math courses not only outperformed their peers in math but also went on to take additional math courses. Read more... -
Students using “smartphones” as part of their academic classroom work
in Onslow County, N.C., significantly outpaced other students -- in
the school district and across the state -- on end-of-course exams in
Algebra, Algebra II and Geometry, a new report reveals. Read more...
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For many Americans, Labor Day must seem like a cruel joke. The opportunities for work have evaporated, and the 9.6 percent unemployment rate doesn’t tell the whole story. It doesn’t count the millions who have dropped out of the labor market, or who fill in as temporary, or even day laborers. Millions of people are hurting, and they don’t really need the day off. Read more...
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Politics Planet on the Table
In tabling the climate bill, the Senate is putting off the inevitable, which will loom ever more perilously the longer we wait.
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Clients The Jellyfish Are Taking Over!
I really dislike jellyfish. I love snorkeling, want to start scuba diving and generally love the water. The problem is, jellyfish are there, too.
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Clients Would You Trust This Man?
Richard Anderson is a smooth-talking cowboy from Galveston, Texas, who earned his spurs in the airline industry working with Frank Lorenzo at Continental Airlines in the 1980s. Lorenzo later fomented a bitter labor dispute and led Eastern Airlines off the cliff, one of the first victims of a reckless airline deregulation policy that has all but crippled air transportation in our nation.
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