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
Work in Progress 