America’s higher education system was built on an important public policy consensus: Investing in higher education is good for everyone. Beginning with the GI Bill and reaching its peak in the 1960s and 1970s, this policy consensus resulted in strong state support for public institutions and an impressive array of two-year, four-year and graduate programs, as well as an extensive system of federal financial aid to equalize educational opportunity. Our nation attracted the best faculty and staff in the world because our institutions of higher education provided good jobs and the freedom to work without outside interference.

August 07, 2007, Chicago
AFL-CIO Executive Council statement

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This is from a odd little website with a good heart called Free Your Imagination. This creature is so odd that I can’t help but suspect fraud, but its real. The goal of the site is to collect information, images, and video about “a few of the hundreds and hundreds of new species discovered since the year 2000.” The hope is that by doing so readers will understand the Earth “as a place still being explored,” and will find “the courage to conserve and protect the fragile, shrinking areas of habitat.” (Thanks to Rocketboom!)

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As an official member of the underemployed, it’s spooky to read Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, claim that “a recession is likely, because of the enormity of the housing bubble and the impact of its collapse.”

He compares our current situation to the last recession in 2001, caused by the stock…