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As a teenager in Holyoke in the 1950s, John J. “Jack” Sbrega dreamed of one day coaching baseball and teaching at a local prep school near his hometown.  He saw himself on the baseball diamond “with leather patches on my jacket. Maybe I'd take up pipe smoking,” he said with a laugh.  He aimed to follow the footsteps of his dad - a high school teacher and professor at Westfield State College, now Westfield State University.  “Education was something I grew up with in the house,” he said.
Students training to become electrical linemen attach themselves to poles during class at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College in Los Angeles on March 12, 2014. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Patrick T. Fallon.
In this Feb. 25, 2016, file photo, then-FBI Director James Comey, testifies before a House Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee budget hearing about the Federal Bureau of Investigation's FY 2017 budget, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Comey will testify that President Donald Trump sought his "loyalty" and asked what could be done to "lift the cloud" of investigation shadowing his White House, according to prepared remarks released ahead of his appearance on Capitol Hill on June 8, 2017.
Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 U.S. Presidential election because of a number of factors, many of which are highly speculative, given the nature of her campaign and her history as a politician. It was rife with scandals, which her political opponents didn't hesitate to point out.
Early rate filings by Obamacare insurers suggest consumers will face significantly higher premiums for marketplace coverage next year due to regulatory and political uncertainty surrounding the Affordable Care Act. After significant premium hikes in 2017 corrected for underpricing by insurers the previous two years, most analysts expected rates to stabilize for marketplace coverage in 2018.
The class divide is deeper than you might have thought. Ivy League colleges, for example, have more students from the top 1% of income than the bottom half.
Editor's note: John Cruden was a senior manager at the Department of Justice for 23 years, most recently serving from January 2015 to January 2016 as assistant attorney general for DOJ's Environment and Natural Resources Division. He is president-elect of the American College of Environmental Lawyers.
When 23-year-old Sahar Kian needed a roommate for her home near Georgetown University, she turned to Craigslist. Among her house rules? No alcohol, pets or meat products.
Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Georgetown are assuring that White House staffers find jobs after Barack Obama leaves office, The Associated Press reported Wednesday. According to the report, Facebook and Instagram leaders are advising staffers on the current job market, while LinkedIn officials are helping with resumes and marketing their skills to major media organizations.
For many women, the presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was a case study in deja vu. For more than 90 minutes on a national stage, they said Tuesday, Trump subjected the first female presidential candidate from a major party to indignities they experience from men daily, in the workplace and beyond.
The push by labor unions and activists to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour may hurt young and less-educated workers the most. In 2013, the Obama administration proposed an increase to the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $9.00 an hour.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg says she thinks "cooler heads will prevail" in the Senate where Republican leaders are refusing to consider President Barack Obama's high court nominee.
Under union pressure, Los Angeles Unified has gutted teacher evaluation , writes Thomas Toch, founding director of the Center on the Future of American Education at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy, in Education Post . That will hurt students - and teachers - he argues.