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Could Farms Survive Without Illegal Labor? - Room for Debate
If American growers depend on illegal labor, would strict enforcement of immigration laws drive up prices for fruits and vegetables?Some. Why not? Everything else does. The what where and how would probably change. -
We Need a New Generation of American Farmers - Room for Debate
If our lawmakers decide that American farmers should hire only American workers, then we as a country have a lot more work to do."The reality is that right now there are simply not enough trained and willing American agricultural workers to get these jobs done."The skills are not demanding.This man hires apprentice workers.Think of them as graduate students.He has no difficulty with labour. He is whining. -
Adam Clarke
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Could Farms Survive Without Illegal Labor? - Room for Debate
If American growers depend on illegal labor, would strict enforcement of immigration laws drive up prices for fruits and vegetables?There is an opportunity to automate here. Robot stoop labour should be well within our capabilities.
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Sam Barr
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The Bipartisan March to Fiscal Madness
“"The fiscal afterlife": David Stockman's stinging op ed about the budget wars is really well written. http://nyti.ms/h3BW4M”Even the crazed can recognize madness.David Stockman is as mad or madder than most.
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Perry Is More Conservative Than Bush Was - Room for Debate
Perry’s embrace of the Christian right and his hard-line political stances would hand Obama another term. That’s why he wants to focus on the “jobs miracle” in Texas.There is no "jobs miracle in Texas.http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/16/more-about-the-texas-unmiracle/It is, however, easy to calculate cruder versions. Salmon does one; here’s another, straight from FRED: the ratio of nonfarm employment to total population. The red line is the nation as a whole, the blue line Texas.
You don’t want to make much of the fact that the Texas line is lower, since the state has a high birth rate and hence a large proportion of children. Farm employment may also factor in here.
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Wallace Bachman
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How Obama Saved Capitalism and Lost the Midterms
"They will whine a fierce storm, the manipulators of great wealth. A war on business, they will claim. Not even close. Obama saved them, and the biggest cost was to him."
We will see how he does with the super committee. There are too many members and they are intransigent.
The best result we can hope for is the Republicans take the blame for the mess.
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Old Curmudgeon
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Major Powers Have a Deal on Sanctions for Iran, U.S. Says
Here's the logic: We can't force "regime change" in Iran as we did in Iraq because we're out of money, out of troops and out of moxie. We (and Israel) can't bomb Iran's nuclear-enrichment program out of existence because Qom showed that Iranians know how to bury it. But we've "got to do something." So we'll put in place a program of general economic sanctions that Iran's leaders (who are by no means stupid) will use to increase Iran's sense of paranoia and isolation and therefore their own hold on power. Should we do our best to prevent the international banking system from allowing money to flow to or from Iran in support of terror? Of course. Should be do our best to prevent nuclear-weapons parts and plans from reaching Iran's shores? Of course. But GENERAL economic sanctions will only be counterproductive. Ordinary people don't like things that make their own lives poorer. Didn't our own reaction to the bailouts teach us that? To the extent they go beyond interdicting financial support of terror and parts and plans for nuclear weapons, sanctions are a big mistake. The only place they ever worked was South Africa, and there only because a 90% racial majority was about to wage bloody revolt. If we want to encourage the peaceful opposition in Iran, general sanctions are precisely the wrong way to go about it. Ahmadinejad and the mullahs are in trouble because they are poor economic managers and work only in their own interest (and even that erratically). General sanctions play right into their hands. It's the economy, stupid!
http://www.juancole.com/2011/06/dagan-ofer-and-israels-growing-iran-credibility-gap.htmlI think Professor Juan Cole is an informed and honourable man.
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Overinvestment in Higher Education - Room for Debate
It used to be that a college degree was a ticket to an upper-middle-class life. No longer."Higher education is the only major business I know where success is gauged not on the number of customers who are served, but more on the basis of the number who are turned away." Whine.Every productive organization is judged on the quality of the product."Bang for the buck." is always the criterion.
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Ginny Hart
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Major Powers Have a Deal on Sanctions for Iran, U.S. Says
Here's the logic: We can't force "regime change" in Iran as we did in Iraq because we're out of money, out of troops and out of moxie. We (and Israel) can't bomb Iran's nuclear-enrichment program out of existence because Qom showed that Iranians know how to bury it. But we've "got to do something." So we'll put in place a program of general economic sanctions that Iran's leaders (who are by no means stupid) will use to increase Iran's sense of paranoia and isolation and therefore their own hold on power. Should we do our best to prevent the international banking system from allowing money to flow to or from Iran in support of terror? Of course. Should be do our best to prevent nuclear-weapons parts and plans from reaching Iran's shores? Of course. But GENERAL economic sanctions will only be counterproductive. Ordinary people don't like things that make their own lives poorer. Didn't our own reaction to the bailouts teach us that? To the extent they go beyond interdicting financial support of terror and parts and plans for nuclear weapons, sanctions are a big mistake. The only place they ever worked was South Africa, and there only because a 90% racial majority was about to wage bloody revolt. If we want to encourage the peaceful opposition in Iran, general sanctions are precisely the wrong way to go about it. Ahmadinejad and the mullahs are in trouble because they are poor economic managers and work only in their own interest (and even that erratically). General sanctions play right into their hands. It's the economy, stupid!
http://www.juancole.com/2011/06/dagan-ofer-and-israels-growing-iran-credibility-gap.htmlProfessor Juan Cole
Welcome to Informed Comment, where I do my best to provide an independent and informed perspective on Middle Eastern and American politics.
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The Costs and Benefits of a Raise for Field Workers - Room for Debate
If farm wages rose 40 percent, each household would spend about $15 more a year, and each seasonal farm worker would be lifted above the federal poverty line.No wonder one cannot hire citizens for competitive wages. -
Restaurant Review: Next, in Chicago
You cannot make a reservation at Next in Chicago. But you can buy a ticket. Its owners treat the restaurant business as show business. And what a show it is.I am learning the craft slowly. My audience is not brave to many things. -
vortex78
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My New York: Fall Favorites
From Barbara Corcoran spilling her annual Thanksgiving secret to Michael Musto gushing about the Radio City Christmas show, notable locals share what they like to do in the city.Escape has been a rare event these last few years. I do want to do more of it.
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The Pay at the Top
How much chief executives at 200 large companies made in 2010, based on an analysis of S.E.C. files conducted by Equilar for The New York Times.
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Perry Is Less Electable Than Bush Was - Room for Debate
If Obama is competitive on Election Day, Romney is a better Republican bet than Perry.If we elect any of them B.C. will look very good. America must employ all those who can earn. -
Donald C
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Could Farms Survive Without Illegal Labor? - Room for Debate
If American growers depend on illegal labor, would strict enforcement of immigration laws drive up prices for fruits and vegetables?Apparently not significantly.-
Calculating the Costs and Benefits
Philip Martin, economist, UC Davis
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Brian Stelter
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TimesCast | April 21, 2011
“Also about "Idol:" @carr2n and I return to the @timescast today around the 2-minute mark... ”American Idol will not be the same. 1% is not a big kick.
http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/s/brian_stelter/index.html?match=any&query=idol&submit.x=16&submit.y=11&submit=Search
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jodikantor
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The Bipartisan March to Fiscal Madness
“"The fiscal afterlife": David Stockman's stinging op ed about the budget wars is really well written. http://nyti.ms/h3BW4M”
Even the crazy know crazy.
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Adam Nagourney
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General McChrystal’s Twitters
How the American commander might have Twittered his way across Europe, Bud Light Lime in hand.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_McChrystal"His retirement ceremony was held on July 23, 2010 at Fort McNair in Washington D.C. During this ceremony, McChrystal was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal by Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey and the Defense Distinguished Service Medal by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.[59][60][61] On August 16, Yale University announced that it had hired McChrystal to teach a graduate seminar in modern leadership at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.[62] In November 2010, JetBlue Airways announced that McChrystal would join its board of directors.[63] On February 16, 2011, Navistar announced that McChrystal would join its board of directors."He is doing just fine.
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