“Like a lot of things we’re seeing, it’s getting tougher for a large segment of the labor market,” says Ruhm, associate dean for academic affairs and professor of public policy and economics at the University of Virginia. “It used to be truer than it is now, particularly if you were non-college bound, [that] you get a job in high school, so maybe you’re working in the supermarket or some kind of other service job or maybe a manufacturing job, and that leads you to something down the road that’s pretty good.”The worsened outcomes for those that fi...
Well, as you can also imagine, there’s more to this picture than an easy assumption of genetically-based intelligence. Some of the fleshing out comes from Sandra Scarr, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia who studied both black and white twins extensively. But interestingly, she also studied adopted children, to examine the effect of the environment on biologically dissimilar siblings. This became known as the Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study. I think of it as an important complement to the Twin Project. Scarr’s work led her to a simple yet profound conclusi...
Currently only three states—California, New Jersey, and Rhode Island—provide government-supported paid parental leave; thus, the data on its effects on families in the United States are limited. But in a 2013 National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, economists Charles L. Baum and Christopher J. Ruhm argued that California’s policy of six weeks of parental leave at 55 percent of the usual pay—enacted in 2004—shows positive effects on labor outcomes (the state already had an existing disability insurance program that gives mothers access to paid leave fol...
University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett has a book coming out in October 2014—Too Big to Jail—examining what happens when criminal charges are brought against major corporations in the U.S. His book shows that sometimes corporations are compelled to pay penalties and fines through negotiated settlements, though the settlements often amount to much less than the public thinks. Rarely are the culpable corporate executives themselves ever prosecuted, much less sentenced to prison, as the following infographic from Garrett’s blog demonstrates:
“The gubernatorial and Senate contests are cyclical and are being conducted on different turf,” said Kyle Kondik, of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “The gubernatorial races are mostly contested every four years during midterms, which means the last time these races were up was in 2010, a great Republican year. It stands to reason that four years later the Republicans might be a bit overextended.”
“The left really does not like Cuomo,” said Kyle Kondik at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “There’s been some various disputes in New York state where Cuomo was seen as turning his back on the more liberal folks in the Democratic Party. … I certainly think somebody like Elizabeth Warren would be more appealing to the more activist wing of the party.”
“This district does not look like districts Republicans hold, but Tierney,
because of his problems, was a weak enough candidate that he opened the door,” Kyle Kondik, managing editor of the University of Virginia Center for Politics’ nonpartisan newsletter, Sabato’s Crystal Ball, said yesterday, referring to lingering questions about the Salem Democrat’s family finances. “The race isn’t over by any means, but I would rather be Moulton than Tisei at this point.”
“A large majority of GOP members of Congress will back Obama on air strikes, while wrapping their support in a package of criticism,” University of Virginia political scientist Larry J. Sabato said today. "They will be saying things like, Obama should have acted sooner, he should have gone into Syria last year, he must send some ground troops too, etc."
McConnell likely will retain the seat in an election that will see Democrats lose their slim majority in the Senate, said Larry J. Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. ...The governor was scheduled to be in the Charlottesville area Wednesday to hold a virtual town hall at the University of Virginia.
Campaign frontrunners generally want to avoid debates because they pose more a risk than an opportunity for leading candidates, said Geoffrey Skelley, an American politics expert from the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, in an interview last month. Cassidy could be steering clear of debates if he thinks he is currently ahead of Landrieu in the election.
The University of Virginia Health System recently released successful findings of a unique approach to treat breast cancer. The hospital pioneered a form of radiation therapy that has helped patients battle the disease more efficiently and effectively.
By Steven Keithley, a graduate student at the University of Virginia, an alumnus of Georgetown University's Asian Studies Programme, and a former researcher for Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George F. Will at The Washington Post.Steven Keithley says with reform-oriented leaders now in charge of the region's three biggest nations, Asia's time has truly come. Xi, Modi and Widodo can reshape the global order.
Nelson 151 Trail is a consortium of seven wineries, three breweries, a cidery, a berry farm, and now a distillery along Rt. 151 in Nelson County that formed to promote visits to their businesses and the variety of agriculturally–based products they make. Now they’ve created a free mobile app with the help of a new Revamp Labs LLC, new Charlottesville digital advertising business formed by U.Va. Darden School second-year students Kris Subhash and Mike Rumbaugh.
Sarah Dietz, a Vineland resident and recent graduate of Vineland High School, has been chosen as one of five New Jersey students to participate in a national Bank of America program called Student Leaders. The program recognizes more than 200 high school juniors and seniors who have demonstrated a commitment to community engagement and volunteerism. Each student receives a paid eight-week internship and travels to Washington, D.C. to take part in a national Student Leadership Summit.
The only problem with trying to hire Edwin S. Kneedler is that you cant. He is exclusive to one client: the government of the United States. Kneedler has worked at the Justice Department for almost 40 years, the vast majority of that time in the office of the solicitor general, through the administrations of Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Obama.
Here is a plea to landowners large and small to ditch the grass, at least some of it, and return your land to the more natural meadows. Here is a way to do it. It turns out that there is at least one in our community devoted to meadows. His business, Meadow Maker Growing Service, makes habitat restoration work economically in our society. John Hermsmeier is the Meadow Man. A 1985 graduate of the University of Virginia with a degree in Environmental Sciences, Hermsmeier has now devoted his professional career to see that his “new” hometown of Albemarle/Charlottesville does not fall ...
Two days after a graphic video surfaced showing the star running back Ray Rice knocking out his fiancée, N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell continued to scramble to get ahead of the brewing controversy about whether he had seen the video before suspending the player for two games. Late Wednesday night, Goodell said that he asked Robert S. Mueller III ‘73, the former F.B.I. director, to conduct an independent investigation into the league’s “pursuit and handling of evidence in the Ray Rice domestic violence incident.” (Also appears in CNN and many more.)
DreamWakers.org, founded in Charlottesville, uses resources like Skype and Google Hangout to connect business leaders with students. The program was piloted at the Boys and Girls Club in Charlottesville and has now made its way into Staunton public schools and is continuing to spread."We thought, well it's so easy to get people into classes with free technology, now we know a network of really cool people, why don't we start something to put it together," says co-founder Annie Medaglia.Medaglia, who's in her 2nd year at UVa Darden School of Business and Monica Gray, a UVa...