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America is going to get back to manufacturing

High-School Juniors With $70,000-a-Year Job Offers

High-School Juniors With $70,000-a-Year Job Offers

If America is going to get back to manufacturing, companies will need to get involved to make sure that there are trained people to hire.  There will need to be more of this.

PHILADELPHIA—Elijah Rios won’t graduate from high school until next year, but he already has a job offer—one that pays $68,000 a year.

Rios, 17 years old, is a junior taking welding classes at Father Judge, a Catholic high school in Philadelphia that works closely with companies looking for workers in the skilled trades. Employers are dealing with a shortage of such workers as baby boomers retire. They have increasingly begun courting high-school students like Rios—a hiring strategy they say is likely to become even more crucial in the coming years.

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Big power outage in Spain and Portugal.

Spain and Portugal hit by unexplained power blackout.

The power is coming back on for parts of Spain and Portugal, more than 12 hours after the massive outage shut off traffic lights and caused chaos at airports, train stations and on the roads.

Both countries have declared states of emergency as authorities work to manage the situation.

It’s not clear why this is a big story in international news or why Spain and Portugal declared a state of emergency.  This time of year, it’s pretty pleasant on the Iberian Peninsula, and much of the power was back on after 6 hours.

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Who is Saquon Barkley and where is he going?

Eagles’ Saquon Barkley hangs out with Trump after teammate dodges question on White House visit

This is an interesting article, but no reports give the whole story.  They all say the same thing.  The Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl, Barkley is the star running back, he spent time with Trump and his teammate is reluctant to accept an invitation to visit the White House.

I don’t give a shit about football, and wasn’t aware that the Eagles won the Super Bowl.  How did a 28 year-old football player land a seat on Marine One with the president?

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Harvard wants to be free.

Harvard’s president says the school will ‘not compromise’ on its rights with the Trump admin

That’s fine, if I were Harvard, I wouldn’t want the government pushing me around.  Money comes with strings attached, so if Harvard wants to be independent, don’t accept a half-billion dollars from the government each year.

About half of Americans pay income tax.  That means that I pay Harvard $3 per year.  I get nothing from that, and don’t want to do it.

Harvard has $50 billion in the bank, and is tax-exempt.  That should be enough.

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