Measuring the success of retraining programs used to be straightforward. You just looked at how many people got better paying jobs. Now the emphasis is shifting from how job seekers benefit to how taxpayers benefit too. That’s because some federal funds for workforce development are shrinking, and local agencies have to do more to make their case. -Measuring The Costs And Benefits Of Retraining, by Kate Davidson
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The brothers certainly found time to play. There was a group known as “The Grand River Rat Club,” a community of young men who were boat owners or involved in boating. They met and partied in The Ark, a makeshift houseboat that belonged to the Jesiek brothers.
— from reporter Kate Davidson’s piece, Student Debt: When Fixing Cars Breaks The Bank
— All About Paczki, The Polish Jelly Donut That Ate The Midwest, at changinggears.info
Jonah Lehrer writes in The New Yorker:
Building 20 became a strange, chaotic domain, full of groups who had been thrown together by chance and who knew little about one another’s work. And yet, by the time it was finally demolished, in 1998, Building 20 had become a legend of innovation, widely regarded as one of the most creative spaces in the world.
