Archive for August 28th, 2006

“Real wages fail to match a rise in productivity”

Monday, August 28th, 2006

An article today in the New York Times titled “Real Wages Fail to Match a Rise in Productivity” takes a look at how wages have risen, or more to the point failed to rise, during the most recent economic expansion.  At a time when productivity (the monetary value of an hour of labor) has risen [...]

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It’s official - the government *does* consider evolutionary biology to be a science

Monday, August 28th, 2006

Last week there was a minor uproar in the academic world when the government presented the list of majors that qualified for money under the National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (SMART) Grant program. The problem was that evolutionary biology was left off of the list. The feds claim that this [...]

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