By Sam Bondy This past Friday October 3rd, the Labor Department reported September nonfarm payrolls grew by 248,000. This was compared with median projections of 215,000 (Bloomberg). Thus, the United States unemployment rate ticked down .2% to 5.9% for September (it was around 10% at the height of the most recent recession). Despite this report, economists remain vigilant of other indicators of employment market health. This includes statistics such as the labor force participation rate,…
Give Us Those Rocks, China
By Ross Marchand With climate change looming out to the horizon and up to the atmosphere, clean energy is likely to proliferate. Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS), generous subsidies, feed-in tariffs, and other mandates are the government’s way of catapulting wind, solar, and electric vehicle technologies to majority market shares. But are taking everything into account in our promotion of fossil fuel alternatives? We’re all too familiar with how fossil fuels are extracted and refined.…
An Ancient Disease Lies Behind the Anti-Israel Protests
Editors Note: This article was written in August. Where are the massive Free Kurdistan rallies? As the barbaric Islamist terror group ISIS overruns Iraq, the Kurdish population there, in addition to religious minorities, is being threatened. There have been numerous documented cases of ISIS thugs beheading children. Sometimes these heads are placed on pikes in the town square for all to see. This is so horrifying that it almost doesn’t sound real, and yet anyone…
Ebola Within Our Borders
By Daniel Irmihaev Ebola, the deadly virus that has killed thousands in various West African countries this year, has made its way into the United States. The first American diagnosed with the virus within our borders, confirmed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Texas Department of State Health Services on September 30, is a man by the name of Thomas Eric Duncan. Mr. Duncan, who flew in from Liberia on…
Editorial
Dear Readers, Many of you are probably picking up an issue of the Binghamton Review, and you’re probably wondering what we’re all about. The average attention span of someone my age is about as robust as the job market for Gender Studies majors, so I’ll probably lose a bunch of you before you’re even done with this paragraph. Such is life! Most college publications, including the ones on this campus, have liberal to leftist political…
What You Missed
What You Missed We’re at war again, although the professional obfuscators and spinners in the Obama administration prefer to call it “kinetic military action.” We’re bombing ISIS, an organization that seeks to establish a caliphate and basically murder everyone who isn’t Muslim (although, nevertheless, Obama insists that they are “not Islamic.”). I hope it goes better than our most recent wars have gone. ISIS is a terrible organization, and it would be in almost everyone’s…
ABC’s
Assholes- Whether it’s the people pushing you from all directions in the bus line, your RA, or a Sodexo manager, you’re sure to encounter them during your time here. BU – Boston University Chipotle – If you thought it was good before, wait until you try it after months of nothing but Sodexo! Dickinson Community– They’re not suites; they’re “flats.” They’re not hallways, or common rooms; they’re “vestibules.” Someone had a little too much fun…