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You’ve probably seen that bumper sticker that says, “The Labor Movement: The Folks Who Brought You the Weekend.” While the sentiment rings true – and not just about the weekend, let’s be clear - it also evokes a kind of “what have you done for me lately?” feeling. It turns out the answer is: quite [...]
From Miller-McCune: Few things ignite a community quite like this question: if you don’t have children in the local public schools, should you have to help pay for those schools? Tax exemptions for specific demographic groups like senior citizens, for example, are often rationalized as lightening the burden on residents who don’t benefit from public schools. [...]
Many American voters seem ready to run our country as if it were a business. Some businesses take a long-range growth perspective, and honor all their stakeholders. A country run that way would be OK. However, other businesses believe their markets are “unattractive,” to use the business school expression. If your business is in an [...]
Last year, President Obama asked Steve Jobs what it would take to convince him to build iPods in America, and Jobs said it couldn’t be done. And to hear the political pundits tell it, manufacturing jobs in America will soon be gone forever. But nothing could be further from the truth, according to a recent [...]
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