News and Research
NY Times, May 17, 2012
In an essay, entitled “Making It in America,” in the latest issue of The Atlantic, the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated: The average mill has only two employees today, “a man and a dog. The man is there to feed the dog, and the dog is there to keep the man away from the machines.” Davidson’s article is one of a number of pieces that have recently appeared making the point that the reason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and sagging middle-class incomes today is largely because of the big drop in demand because of the Great Recession, but it is also because of the quantum advances in both globalization and the information technology revolution, which are more rapidly than ever replacing labor with machines or foreign workers.
Auburn Komo, April 13, 2012
The Road Map Project, which is aimed at driving major improvements in education results in South Seattle and South King County, is hoping to get all eligible 8th graders signed up for the College Bound Scholarship by June 30 of this year.
Puget Sound Business Journal, March 16, 2012
No matter what side of the political aisle we sit on, most of us can agree that an education is the surest way out of poverty. But getting access to college isn’t easy, especially if you are poor.
