Well, in the district where my mom is a school psychologist, she is essentially responsible for about 4-5000 students spread across 4 schools. Part of her job is to screen kids for special education. Most of her day is spent convincing teachers in various schools that Timmy doesn't have a learning disability just because he acts out occasionally, and that even if he did a Special Ed classroom may well cripple him for the rest of his life. She only has about a day per week per school to administer assessments, provide classroom seminars, and manage confused teachers.
Librarians have a similar problem. Many districts in Washington can't afford even one per school anymore. The library in those districts is either closed or at reduced capacity if the librarian is not in.
I voted for I1135 mainly because it would increase funding for classified staff again, and not because it reduced class sizes.
The problem I see with using EITC in this way is that it masks the cost of labor for any company paying minimum wage. A huge hole in arguments against raising the minimum wage is that few seem to address the fact that many workers are already receiving additional pay in the form of benefits. The benefits are more expensive and less flexible than an equivalent pay raise, because new bureaucratic infrastructure inevitably has to be created to manage the new benefit. Is that really more efficient than just paying higher wages?
Practically every bank I do business with has these limitations. By contrast, my gmail password is 24 characters long, and contains capital and lowercase letters and punctuation. It makes me wonder what their back-end systems look like that they can't handle passwords longer than that.
My understanding was that although regular CGI respawns the command interpreter every time the web server is queried, FastCGI reuses the same command interpreter and just updates the environment.
Einstein guy his for his work with Brownian Motion. Nobel prizes aren't typically given for science that lacks a body of supporting evidence, which was the case at the time for Relativity.
I hate marketers because they flood my mailbox with so much useless shit and paper that I miss mail from people I want to hear from. They've succeeded at making every form of communication that they touch useless, and I'm glad that it's illegal for them to call cell phones.
All science can tell you is that if x people with your condition do y, n of them will likely die. Neither you not the statisticians can say with certainty whether you're in group n or x minus n.
Baseball is one of the few sports you can watch with other people and talk over. The pace of the action can be a draw if you're going to pass time with other people rather than obsess over plays. I guess it's like the difference between a lounge and a dance club.
Because the people who "get something for nothing" already do so today, and you already pay those costs. People check themselves into the ER with injuries and infections that have progressed to the point where they are life-threatening because the injured and sick could not afford to see a doctor at the time they received the injury.
The reason they can go to the ER is because the ER has to treat you if your case is life-threatening. They then proceed to not pay the resulting bill, get taken to collections, and file for bankruptcy, which has the effect of giving them free medical treatment.
Only it wasn't free preventative care, or a free doctor's visit. It was a free visit to the ER and free inpatient treatment. Guess which is more expensive, a doctor's visit or a visit to the ER?
Given that you, the person with money, end up footing the bill either way, would you prefer the less expensive or the more expensive option?
Most of the time, change is effected through long effort and reflection, and by the end you don't see you've changed at all.