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Month: July 2018

When Freedom and Self-Reliance are No Longer Enough

Published on July 16, 2018October 23, 2018 by Brynne VanHettinga

Why are Americans so ambivalent about inequality?  Our country was founded on a revolution against taxation without representation. It was also founded on the concept of equality, or the proposition that everyone had the same stake in national welfare and equal rights to participate and be heard. Our founding values of freedom and equality were […]

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The Great Jobs Deception is based on a doctoral dissertation study of underemployment among professionals in STEM, health care, legal and academic occupations.  Underemployment of highly educated and skilled individuals represents a waste of human capital both for the individual and for society as a whole.  Yet, our unemployment statistics are not capturing what is happening in the job market–and the threat it presents for economic progress and civil society.

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