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This week Obama announced a more aggressive version of his original plan to help people saddled with student loan debt.  The details are pretty simple, under the new plan you won’t have to pay more than 10% of your income towards student loans and after 20 years of doing that whatever else you owe is [...]

This weekend, Bill and Melinda Gates published an article in the Wall Street Journal about the efforts of their foundation to improve education in the US. The foundation does a lot of things, and this article focused on how the proper measurement of what makes for a great teacher is critical to the future of [...]

In most cases, a good education is the most important foundation to a successful life.  We’re taught this by parents, and economists regularly corroborate it with statistics showing lower unemployment rates and better incomes for people with greater education. But of course we are regularly reminded of dropouts like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, but [...]

I heard from someone this week that Jobs was first and foremost a philosopher. That person has probably watched this.

It seems like for over a year we saw headlines of nothing but layoffs.  Over the last few months we’ve started to see that again.  The official statistics on jobs make this not at all surprising.  Unemployment is up and jobless claims numbers are not where they need to be.  But other companies are hiring [...]

There are many articles and blog posts and books about the nature of incentives. Many such examples have been known to find their ways to this very blog. That is because so much of what we do on a daily basis is based on how we are measured and paid. We have performance plans, sales [...]

Many many people can’t find a job, because they don’t exist.  And yet a new report is saying there’s a shortage of labor in the auto industry, and in technology, and oil and gas too.  How could that be? The report goes on to indicate a shortage of skilled labor in these industries and others.  [...]