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Our Part-Time Labor Problem

I teach part-time. My students work. They work in fast food or slightly slower food or hospitality. Last spring semester, two were veterans, with at least four trips to the Middle East between them....

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High-Priced Higher Education

Another school year has begun leading to age old questions like: is this degree worth it? The New Yorker takes a look at college degrees and how over the last century, the liberal arts degree that once...

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A Body Is a Bill to Pay

My identity changed when I opened that envelope. I stood in my dusty kitchen, pantries bare, blinded by all those zeroes in the sum I owed. I’d already sworn off using the window air conditioning unit...

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When Ideals Meet Reality: The Contradictions by Sophie Yanow

You want to hitchhike across Europe like your parents did, but your mother tells you it’s too dangerous. You want to be vegan, but French cooking is full of delicious cheeses and buttery sauces. You...

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The Debt Never Promised

The winter before I graduated high school, my father packed his truck with a cooler of food, drove me to Wilderness State Park, and left me in a cabin for three days to ruminate on the kind of man I...

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