Part-time community college faculty face unfortunate series of barriers to stability in work
Capitalism and Big Business articles on Democracy Chronicles
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Here’s Something Fast and Simple
McDonald’s Corp. spent more than $500,000 in 2012 on federal campaign contributions. In 2013, they have spent close to $2,000,000 on lobbying. And what do they get in return? A wage where their workers need to depend on government spending to support themselves and their families.
What’s That Tuition Check Paying For?
Before you sign that first tuition check, find out how many adjuncts your university or college employs. Then ask the administration how much those adjunct faculty members are paid and how well they are supported. Then ask why you’re writing such a big check.
Stress Points: Being a Professor is Easy, Right?
How “easy” is it for the professors who, for instance, teach at three different schools (sometimes in the same day) and still earn poverty-level wages? Faculty working conditions are student learning conditions—not just on your campus or mine, but on all of them.
VIDEO: Microloans Fight Poverty in Mexico
Charity is finding microloans fight poverty if administered correctly as technique invented in Bangladesh is being successfully deployed against poverty in Mexico
Facebook COO Leads Women Leadership Discussion
Women leadership in large corporations is painfully rare in United States while other countries have found ways to make it work, according to Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg
VIDEO: Benefits and Problems With Social Democracy
Author and philosopher argues problems with social democracy outweigh any potential benefits
Political and Economic Inequality Are Brothers
Political and economic inequality linked in a mutually reinforcing dangerous downward spiral
Comparing America’s Income Inequality to Europe
Inequality is much starker before and after one considers government assistance when comparing America’s income inequality to Western European
Op-Ed: Let’s Steal Black Friday
Seizing Black Friday would extend the front line of worker solidarity to the holiday season and disrupt the business-as-usual zeitgeist. The message would be positive. The effects could be deeply profound. And the new battle cry wouldn’t be bad either for lovers of Latin: Carpe Niger Veneris!