Posted by Tad DeHaven on August 11, 2010
By Tad DeHaven
The Bureau of Economic Analysis latest release of industry compensation levels shows that the average federal worker ranks up at the top along with employees in the finance and energy industries. That’s not exactly popular company these days.
The BEA presents compensation data for 72 industries that span the U.S. economy. Figure 1 shows the 20 [...]
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Tags: bureau of economic analysis, compensation data, compensation growth, employee compensation, energy industries, finance, Government and Politics, public schools, public sector, public sector unions, teachers unions, wages | 
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Posted by Andrew J. Coulson on June 22, 2010
By Andrew J. Coulson
Nick Gillespie drew attention yesterday to an op-ed Charles Murray wrote on school choice. Murray’s thesis was that the dominance of family environment and genetics in determining student achievement is such as to allow little room for schools to affect academic outcomes. That said, Murray goes on to argue for school choice anyway, on the grounds that [...]
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Tags: charles murray, Education, Education and Child Policy, market education, nick gillespie, public schools, school choice | No Comments »
Posted by Neal McCluskey on June 17, 2010
By Neal McCluskey
Finished with my woman
‘Cause she couldn’t help me with my mind
People think I’m insane
Because I am frowning all the time
- Black Sabbath, “Paranoid”
According to the Fordham Institute’s Chester Finn, I and others like me are “paranoid.” So why, like Ozzy Osbourne, am I “frowning all the time?” Because I look at decades of public [...]
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Tags: curriculum, curriculum standards, drinking age, Education, Education and Child Policy, education funding, education system, elementary and secondary education, federal dollars, General, Government, government control, no child left behind, parent, President Obama, public school, public schooling, public schools, Race to the Top, race to the top fund, secondary education, standards, unions | No Comments »
Posted by Andrew J. Coulson on June 7, 2010
By Andrew J. Coulson
That’s the topic of a commentary I just wrote at BigGovernment.com, tied to recent efforts to prop up public school employment with another $23 billion bailout. I won’t repeat the text of that post here, but thought the two charts bear repeating. The first shows that employment has grown 10 times faster than enrollment over the past [...]
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Tags: Education and Child Policy, public schools, school enrollment, school spending, teachers | No Comments »
