For years, governments in India and much of the developing world have followed the advice of a paper arguing that labor regulations actually hurt workers. The problem? The research was wrong.
Read more...Not only do charter schools not improve student performance, but they are inefficient and drain resources from public schools. It should come as no surprise that resource-scarce schools who’ve also typically had their students cherry-picked have trouble.
Read more...Foxconn fleeced Wisconsin. But this was a feature, not a bug.
Read more...The right to repair movement is growing — not just in the US, but in the EU, Australia, and New Zealand as well.
Read more...The story of how oil refiners group marshalled the support of Republican governors behind the Trump administration’s rollback of CAFE auto emissions standards.
Read more...Seventh Circuit hands down major age discrimination decision holding that federal disparate impact protection does not extend to job applicants and applies to employees only.
Read more...A jaundiced look at “Singapore on the Thames,” yet another barmy Brexit idea.
Read more...Charter schools undermine public schools, and that’s a feature, not a bug.
Read more...Electronic health care records continue to be a drag on doctor productivity and the quality of treatment.
Read more...How CalPERS gave access to its sensitive member database to a company it barely knew, Votem Corp., with no contractual protection whatsoever. That’s like giving the keys to your house to someone you just met.
Read more...The LA Times reports that SpaceX, the unicorn startup with a newly minted $30.5 billion “valuation” and dreams of sending humans to Mars shortly, will lay off about 10% of its employees.
Read more...Cigna looks way too eager to squeeze money from customers.
Read more...Quelle surprise! Scammers have cooked up trading schemes to defraud upstanding cryptocurrency users.
Read more...A follow up to Andrew Dittmer’s series on libertarian thinking.
Read more...Another CalPERS PR gambit backfires, revealing yet more problems with CalPERS private equity scheme.
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