Year: 2015
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Why the Cure for a Sluggish Economy is Actually Longer Vacations
In a world without easy mechanisms to restore full employment, can working fewer hours help? Dean Baker writes.
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The Problem of Black Unemployment: Racial Inequalities Persist Even Amongst the Unemployed
It’s no secret unemployment is higher for blacks than for whites. But it’s actually worse than that: blacks and whites have much different experiences of unemployment and the “social safety net.” Nick Buffie digs through the numbers for you.
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Gathering Lesser Seattle
Within Seattle here circa 2015, there’s a cathartic struggle simmering between our city’s poignant past and the feral future that now beckons fiercely. Jeff Stevens further histories you.
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Mars Will Come to Fear My Botany Powers
How easy is it to colonize Mars, really? And what about food? Steven Burgess interviews a scientist from the Mars One project for details.
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Sunday Comics
Another Sunday Comics, another forward state of mind/It’s somewhere deep within our consciousness.




