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// We recently reported on the prison initiative of Bard College, a selective school currently running degree programs in five New York prisons. Skeptics of prison reform should take note of one Anthony Cardenales, a former inmate who…

EmbedVideo(1190, 514, 320); We recently reported on the prison initiative of Bard College, a selective school currently running degree programs in five New York prisons. Skeptics of prison reform should take note of one Anthony Cardenales,…

A ticker in Times Square gives the news Friday evening about S&P downgrading the U.S. credit rating. Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images. The intensity and scale of the Obama administration pushback against Standard & Poor's downgrading of…

The Labor Department reported Friday that hiring increased in July and the unemployment rate dipped to 9.1 percent. Below you'll find our Solman Scale jobs graphic, a different way to examine the larger picture of unemployment though a series…