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		<title>Looking Ahead to 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ralph Everett, Esq. originally published in The Washington Informer Elections are about opportunity. And with so many critical issues hanging in the balance at present, 2012 will be an especially important time for Americans themselves to influence the direction of our country. With the recovery just beginning to pick up the pace, 2011 was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jcpes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10137979&amp;post=644&amp;subd=jcpes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Can Community Colleges Change the Way we Think About Talent?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Joseph Miller, Esq Believe it or not, some high school graduates not bound for four-year colleges still want to pursue higher education.  But our system of higher education has other plans in mind for these students.  In the United States, if you don’t attend a four-year college immediately after high school, you essentially become [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jcpes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10137979&amp;post=639&amp;subd=jcpes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mayor Emanuel Must Shed Old Paradigms for True Transparency Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Nicol Turner Lee, Ph.D. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is under fire for his office&#8217;s denial of Freedom of Information Act requests, with critics in the local and national press and blogs taking the mayor to task for shielding public records from public view. Underscoring this lapse in transparency is Emanuel&#8217;s vow to foster &#8220;the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jcpes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10137979&amp;post=638&amp;subd=jcpes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In the Interest of Social Security</title>
		<link>http://jcpes.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/in-the-interest-of-social-security/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Wilhelmina Leigh, Ph.D. In its deliberations to develop a plan to reduce the federal deficit by more than a trillion dollars over the next decade, the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction considered a proposal to calculate cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) in all government programs using the “chained” CPI-U (Consumer Price Index-Urban), rather than the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jcpes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10137979&amp;post=630&amp;subd=jcpes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wireless Taxes: Extra Cash You Don’t Have in Difficult Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Joseph Miller, Esq “This tax, that tax, what do they all mean?  Well, I guess I have to pay them if I want to keep this phone.”  Sound familiar? Earlier this month, the House of Representatives passed the Wireless Tax Fairness Act of 2011, which would freeze any increases in state and local taxes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jcpes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10137979&amp;post=627&amp;subd=jcpes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>STEM and the Big Picture: Preparing the Next Generation of Innovators</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Joseph Miller, Esq. “Do what you love and success will follow.”  That is standard advice in any number of career advice books.  But too few students are inspired to love science, technology, engineering and math (“STEM”), and the students most likely to major in non-STEM fields, are the students who are least able to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jcpes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10137979&amp;post=625&amp;subd=jcpes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ask Someone Who Isn’t Working …</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Wilhelmina A. Leigh, Ph.D. “If you think the system is working, ask someone who isn’t.”  Acting on this bumper-sticker advice by surveying people who are not working reveals not only their anguish and depression about being unemployed, but also their belief that the labor market system, and particularly government employment services, are broken and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jcpes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10137979&amp;post=623&amp;subd=jcpes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This is Inner City…</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Joseph Miller, Esq. “Don’t take away the music.  It’s the only thing I’ve got.  It’s my piece of the rock.”  -        From the lyrics of Don’t Take Away the Music by Tavares. “[T]he market shapes programming to a tremendous extent. Members of minority groups who own licenses might be thought, like other owners, to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jcpes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10137979&amp;post=606&amp;subd=jcpes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It’s Time to Focus on Poverty and Inequality to improve our National Security and Prosperity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian D. Smedley, Ph.D. Brian D. Smedley, Ph.D. The U.S. Census Bureau released chilling statistics this week:  nearly one in six Americans is living in poverty.  The number of Americans with incomes below the official poverty line ($22,314 for a family of four) rose by 2.6 million in 2010 to 46.2 million. The poverty rate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jcpes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10137979&amp;post=611&amp;subd=jcpes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And What About Tax Expenditures in Deficit Reduction?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Wilhelmina A. Leigh, Ph.D. The Budget Control Act of 2011 (P.L. 112-25), signed into law on August 2, 2011, mandates that a Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction be constituted (with 12 members of Congress) to identify ways to cut $1.5 trillion from the federal budget over the next 10 fiscal years (2012-2021).  The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jcpes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10137979&amp;post=598&amp;subd=jcpes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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