Vocational and for-profit schools may soon pay a greater penalty for their graduates’ failure to find a job. The U.S. Department of Education is reviving efforts to pass “gainful employment” regulations, which would require schools to meet certain criteria or else lose their eligibility for federal student aid. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports: The announcement […]

Workers aged 60-74 now command better wages on average than workers 25-59, according to a new Brookings Institution study: Using one standard benchmark of individual worker productivity—hourly wages—workers between 60 and 74 now earn more than an average worker who is between 25 and 59. The hourly pay premium for older men was about 22 percent […]

Last month Politico reported that Congressmen were looking to exempt themselves and their staff from the insurance exchanges they are mandated to join under Obamacare. They feared that premiums would be too high for an average Hill staffer on a shoestring salary. Now there’s a new twist in the story: a group Senators, Representatives, and congressional aides are […]

Scientists may have found a way to power electronic devices with just a fraction of the energy they currently use, and it’s all thanks to graphene, a much-hyped material with some remarkable properties.Graphene has been hailed as a “miracle material,” but its structure is fairly simple. It’s just a sheet of carbon molecules, connected in a […]

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has had four years to figure out how to prevent another international embarrassment like the Green Revolution. With the presidential election one day away, a carefully vetted ballot contains no outspoken reformists. Candidates have been instructed to be reticent and vague in televised debates. Campaign leaflets and posters are […]

Earth’s surface temperatures aren’t rising at the rate scientists predicted. It’s yet another example of how quickly our understanding of the Earth’s climate is changing, and a major blow to the green movement, which has aggressively pushed these predictions to get their preferred policies through. Now, even the New York Times is acknowledging this fact: The […]

Reports are emerging that Syrian rebels killed at least 60 Shiites in a village in eastern Syria in what seems to be a revenge attack for an earlier incident. The rebels say the Shiites were Shabiha, members of Assad’s feared irregular militias. Syrian officials describe it as a massacre of civilians. “What was not in […]

Countries in Asia are even more nervous about using big American tech companies like Google or Yahoo, thanks to the NSA’s leaked data collection program. Officials in Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore once relied on mail services from Google and Yahoo to mail large attachments, but the Times of India reports that governments and businesses across […]

A new study by The Hamilton Project says that dropping out of college isn’t a total waste: you still get some benefit. The New York Times reports: The investment in even a partial college education is still worth it, amounting to average earnings of $100,000 more over a lifetime than for those who merely finish […]

The California “comeback” still hasn’t materialized, but a small specimen of good sense was finally spotted today. The WSJ reports that after much Democratic infighting over the state’s new surplus, Governor Jerry Brown may have just persuaded his fellow Dems in the state legislature to adopt a slightly more conservative budget that rejects attempts to spend […]