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America Has Hit “Peak Jobs”

http://tcrn.ch/11Z89XW

The revolution will not be hand-stitched

http://bit.ly/1gR453t

A basic income of about $10,000 per US citizen would work mathematically

http://bit.ly/1ckVIYr

Etsy’s Industrial Revolution

http://nyti.ms/17Qif2b

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Young and Educated in Europe, but Desperate for Jobs

http://nyti.ms/1bAXiqO

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Switzerland’s Proposal to Pay People for Being Alive

http://nyti.ms/1iZXnVG

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The tens of thousands of cops, firefighters, construction workers and others who survived the worst terrorist assault in U.S. history and risked their lives in its wake will soon be informed that their names must be run through the FBI’s terrorism watch list, according to a letter obtained by HuffPost.

Any of the responders who are not compared to the database of suspected terrorists would be barred from getting treatment for the numerous, worsening ailments that the James Zadroga 9/11 Health And Compensation Law was passed to address.

It’s a requirement that was tacked onto the law during the bitter debates over it last year.

In other news, this jerk in Michigan wants to require that foster care kid only get their clothing used. Because right now they're living the high life with designer clothes at the extravagant cost of $107 a year. (You'll see people in the comments talking about an $80 limit, but I don't know where they got that number. I got mine directly off the Michigan foster care website.) $107 is juuuuuust barely enough to buy school uniforms for one child - assuming you plan on the kid rewearing the clothes at least once between washings. (If your kid is likely to play in the mud, paint in school, or squirt ketchup on that shirt during lunch? Tough luck. You want to do a midweek laundry day?) It doesn't pay for a coat and shoes as well. Of course, your hypothetical foster kid might not go to a school with a uniform policy. Great - you only have to buy one set of clothes... and now everybody will know if he or she wears the same shirt twice in a week!

Of course, that's buying clothes new. That's not driving all around town in the hopes that you'll be able to find enough thrift store clothes in the kid's size to make a full wardrobe. Undoubtedly foster kids in Michigan already have some of their clothing from thrift stores, as I can't work out any other way to make it work, but why not, novel idea, why not let the kids and/or their foster parents determine the best, thriftiest way to spend that clothing money?

An editorial about bees and bee-pollinated crops

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An article about morals, sharing, and the world

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"Want to Use My Suit? Then Throw Me Something, Mister!"
Pictures

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Finding a possibly new (old) human species

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"The hidden histories that shape the way we live now" (I'm not going to hide this one behind a cut)

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It gets very dry and factual and mathy midway through - if anybody could sum it up, that'd be great, I sort of glazed over even though the individual facts were interesting. (Gee, that's an incentive to read, isn't it?)