FINANCIAL TIMES: China’s labour force is shrinking and the “migrant miracle” that powered its industrial rise is mostly exhausted, removing the factors that propelled the country’s meteoric development, according to leading economists. The transformation will lead to slower growth, reduced investment and a loss of export competitiveness, they warn, increasing the urgency of implementing ambitious […]
LGH to buck the trend by adding tower of new hospital rooms
By adding a potential of 140 new rooms, the hospital flies in the face of the thrust of the Affordable Care Act and predictions of experts that the demand for beds will in general diminish by 20% over the next five years.
Change of Address Offers A Pathway Out of Poverty
NEW YORK TIMES: …Based on the earnings records of millions of families that moved with children, it finds that poor children who grow up in some cities and towns have sharply better odds of escaping poverty than similar poor children elsewhere. The feelings heard across Baltimore’s recent protests — of being trapped in poverty — […]
COLUMN: Obama shares blame for Baltimore
WE.CONNECT.DOTS: That racism has not recessed as much as we believe will be part of Barack Obama’s legacy as the 44th President. He deserves the charge because he expended too much of his presidency convincing White America he was one of them while skirting the issues of Black America.
A trade watershed?
WASHINGTON POST COLUMN: The trouble with our trade debates is that people assume they’re only about economics. Since World War II, U.S. trade policy has also been a pillar of U.S. foreign policy. In the early postwar decades, America encouraged trade with Europe and Japan — allowing more of their exports into the United States […]
The painful price of aging in prison
WASHINGTON POST: …In recent years, federal sentencing guidelines have been revised, resulting in less severe prison terms for low-level drug offenders. But Harrison, a decorated Vietnam War veteran, remains one of tens of thousands of inmates who were convicted in the “war on drugs” of the 1980s and 1990s and who are still behind bars. […]
Blessed Are the Climate Advocates
SLATE COLUMN: …This Vatican moment was a game-changer. Science and religion were forcefully and unwaveringly aligning. Tuesday’s high-level session brought together multiple presidents, CEOs, academics, scientists, and all the major religions, and ended withthis final, forceful statement. The event was a prelude to the Pope’s summer encyclical on climate change, and it laid a solid […]
Our Budapest Beacon website rated #2 for Eastern Europe
One thing the site will never sacrifices is credible reporting. However. perhaps the most surprising fact is that the website is published out of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
The Road to David Brooks’ Character
FORWARD: …Brooks acknowledges that we live in contradiction between these two natures, since to build a résumé you cultivate your strengths, while to build a moral core you must confront your weaknesses. But he doesn’t call for balance. Instead, he makes a persuasive argument that we live in a time that rewards the striving, utilitarian […]
How times change: LNP criticizes partial gagging of public at township meeting
We don’t want to tar the current management of LNP with the sins of their predecessors (although ownership should not be excused), but refusing to answer quesetions was the technique used by Ted Darcus, then Chair of the Lancaster County Convention Center Authority and never questioned by LNP, to silence critics of the proposed project.
Six officers charged in death of Freddie Gray
WASHINGTON POST: Six police officers were charged Friday in the death of Freddie Gray as Baltimore’s top prosecutor acted with surprising swiftness in a case that ignited protests and rioting here. She described how Gray allegedly was arrested illegally, treated callously by the officers, and suffered a severe spine injury in the back of a […]
Can a professor fail his entire class?
SLATE: Irwin Horwitz had had enough. His students, he thought, weren’t performing well academically and they were being disruptive, rude, and dishonest. So he sent the students in his strategic management class an email: “Since teaching this course, I have caught and seen cheating, been told to ‘chill out,’ ‘get out of my space,’ ‘go […]
1 in 4 US renters must use half their pay for housing costs
AOL: More than one in four U.S. renters have to use at least half their family income to pay for housing and utilities. That’s the finding of an analysis of Census data by Enterprise Community Partners, a nonprofit that helps finance affordable housing. The number of such households has jumped 26 percent to 11.25 million […]
Former Christie ally pleads guilty in bridge scandal
FINANCIAL TIMES: A former ally of Chris Christie pleaded guilty on Friday to charges related to a politically motivated road closure and two more were indicted, in the first of a series of cases that could severely complicate the New Jersey governor’s expected presidential campaign. David Wildstein, formerly the top New Jersey appointee at the […]