Steven Gerrard is 30 a week today, a day on which any young man might reflect on what he has achieved in his life and make plans for the future, but an even more significant landmark for a professional footballer approaching the twilight of his career.
[ FACT comments : More than a quarter of England’s primary schools have no male teachers. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/5033012/More-than-a-quarter-of-Englands-primary-schools-have-no-male-teachers.html and poverty levels in Britain at Dickensian standards http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/6164141/Children-in-modern-Britain-living-like-times-of-Dickens.html With single mother families, no male teachers and endless poverty, where are the role models for t
The decline of the economy and job market has caused an increase in job scams, the most recent being one as a “recruiting professional.” The website headline reads, “Recruiting Professionals: Putting America Back to Work,” and this company operates under the guise of helping unemployed Americans through a job placement service. The recruiting professional supposedly trains applicants (or rather, those who pay the $297 fee) to match candidates to the right job, and if the candidate lands that job
Howard Beck of The New York Times : “Donnie Walsh was aggressive when free agency opened, courting Kidd and Hill in early July. But Kidd returned to the Dallas Mavericks, Hill re-signed with the Phoenix Suns and soon Walsh was forced to alter his plans radically. On July 7, the N.B.A. announced a modest decline in the 2009-10 salary cap, and warned teams of a potentially large drop — up to 5 percent — for 2010-11. At that moment, Walsh said, he scuttled any plans to offer multiyear contracts to
The Jobless Stimulus It’s still not too late to redirect $400 billion to business tax cuts. The recession may be over on Wall Street and Silicon Valley, but on Working Family Avenue it still has a ways to run. That’s the lesson of yesterday’s August jobs report that showed losses of 216,000, which believe it or not is the slowest monthly decline in a year and caused the White House to praise with the faint damn that the “trajectory is in the right direction.” That’s the good news. On
