Friday Roundup – November 3, 2017

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Happy Friday! Here is our latest compilation of news and essays we’ve been reading.

 

The Bail Trap

• The Bail Trap (New York Times Magazine)

 

Cut, Cut, Cut

• Republican Plan Delivers Permanent Corporate Tax Cut (New York Times)
• If House Republicans Get Their Way, These Colleges Would See Their Endowments Taxed (The Chronicle)
• The GOP Targets America’s Most Loved and Hated Tax Break (The Atlantic)

 

Gender and Sexuality

• How Queer History Finally Came into Its Own (Vice)
• It’s going to take more than 200 years to close the workplace equality gap. Here’s why it’s getting worse. (Washington Post)
• The Gender Pay Gap in Physics Persists (The Chronicle)
• Dartmouth probing multiple allegations against 3 barred professors (Boston Globe)

 

Blowing the Whistle

• New law targets managers who retaliate against federal whistleblowers (Washington Post)
• There’s Now a Whistleblower Hotline for Scientists Working Under the Trump Administration (Motherboard)
• SEC’s Whistleblower Chief Says Companies Heed Call Not to Silence Tipsters (National Law Review)

 

Changing Nature of Work

• With A Future Full Of Jobs To Fill, Training Programs Take Aim At Skills Gap (WBUR)
• Demand For Senior Home Care Grows, But Its Pay Remains Low (WBUR)
• What The Booming Gig Economy Means For The Future Of Work (WBUR)

 

On Campus

• The Surprising Revolt at the Most Liberal College in the Country (The Atlantic)
• The Illiberal Demands of the Amherst Uprising (The Atlantic)
• Plan to Phase Out 2 Dozen Programs Stuns Faculty at Wisconsin-Superior (The Chronicle)
  • According to this source, Sociology is among the disciplines impacted at UW-Superior