General Motors plans to eliminate 30,000 jobs this year. Ford is expected to close four plants that employ about 7,500 people, and recently announced plans to cut about 4,000 more salaried jobs in addition to the 2,700 it has already eliminated in 2005.
Tomorrow's manufacturing jobs will be for those with education in science, engineering and mathematics, and for those with high-skill technical training.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform recently released a study showing that the total annual cost of the tort system to U.S. businesses is $129 billion.
Recidivism is bad. Rehabilitation is good. A civilized society strives, at least in principle, to offer people who have been incarcerated an opportunity to rebuild their lives and return to society as productive citizens.