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Washington, D.C., DJ Kid Cannibal, whose father Chris Garlock works for the Metropolitan Washington Council, created a hip-hop mixtape to have a little fun with the House Republican shutdown of the federal government. While the shutdown is serious business that hurts real people, take a few minutes out to have a laugh (and maybe dance a little), then tell House Speaker John Boehner to stop being irresponsible and end the shutdown. Kid Cannibal DJs at various night clubs, including the Rock & Roll Hotel, Recess, Bar 7 and Federal Lounge, and notes that none of them are currently shut down.
The National Transportation Safety Board is not sending anyone to investigate a horrific Tennessee bus crash that left eight people dead and 14 more injured because the government shutdown furloughed all its highway investigators, an NTSB official said.
Editor's note: This story is one in a series on education issues featured at the 2013 Education Nation summit in New York City on Oct. 6-8. To learn more, please visit EducationNation.com.
In all the coverage of the shutdown of the federal government forced by House Speaker John Boehner, little has been shared on how things got to this point. Too much of the coverage portrays the budget process as a food fight over one issue. Yet, examining the process that created the brinkmanship of Speaker Boehner and the irresponsible decision making that got us here, this needs to be laid out.
The past decade has not been kind to America’s young workers. Coming of age in an era of declining median wages, skyrocketing income inequality and increasing college costs, the young American workforce has had much less success than the generations that came before it. As Think Progress reported, Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute released a new study on Monday. Titled Failure to Launch, the study examined how the 2000s were a lost decade for Generation Y.
Working families activists led by the Alliance for Retired Americans and Congressional Progressive Caucus are taking their message to Capitol Hill today, telling Congress it is absolutely unacceptable to cut Social Security benefits in a Human Chain Against "Chained" CPI rally.Watch the live-stream of the event after the jump starting at 10 a.m. EDT.
The wife of an SUV driver who police say was beaten after a clash with a swarm of bikers on a New York City highway said Thursday that her husband was “placed in grave danger by a mob of reckless and violent motorcyclists.
To most families in the United States, early September means back to school and heading to the football or soccer fields. To Uzbekistan’s families, September means the government forces many adults and children into the fields to pick cotton. Since this year’s harvest began, three young people have died. The youngest was a six-year-old boy, Amirbek Rachmatow, who suffocated under a pile of cotton on Sept. 15.
On the third day of a government shutdown with no end in sight, families, government employees and private citizens across the country were feeling the effects of the battle in Washington.
A 12-year-old from Stamford, Conn., was arrested on Tuesday after police say she continually bullied, taunted and harassed another student while at school.Police said the victim’s parents contacted the department to report the bullying on Sept. 20. Both students attend a private middle school.
