ALL THINGS BEING EQUAL(meaning equal resume, experience etc) Who would u hire?Shaniqua or Emily? Why?

http://www.chicagogsb.edu/capideas/spring03/racialbias.html

In the study “Are Emily and Brendan More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal?” Marianne Bertrand, an associate professor at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, and Sendhil Mullainathan of Massachusetts Institute of Technology use a field experiment to measure the extent of race-based job discrimination in the current labor market.

The authors find that applicants with white-sounding names are 50 percent more likely to get called for an initial interview than applicants with African-American-sounding names. Applicants with white names need to send about 10 resumes to get one callback, whereas applicants with African-American names need to send about 15 resumes to achieve the same result.

1. Today, people being arrested are read their rights. The right to remain silent is guaranteed under

A. the Fifth Amendment.
B. Roe v. Wade.
C. Marbury v. Arizona.
D. the First Amendment.

2.Suppose you have the job of assigning the proper number of House of Representatives seats for various states. To do that, you must know the _______ in that state.

A. apportionment
B. number of counties
C. population
D. number of districts

3.Suppose you’re studying the forms of city government. To do that, you visit the old cities of Boston, Massachusetts; New Haven, Connecticut; and Providence, Rhode Island. What form of city government were you most likely to find in these cities?

A. Commission form
B. City manager form
C. Board of supervisors form
D. Mayor-council form

Ok. I got a ticket in February. Doing 50 in a 30, $100 fine, which is half of what it should have been. Basically, I’m going to court this Thursday and I need to know which stance I should take. The policeman asked me what I thought I was doing and I hit the nail right on the head. Being under 18 at the time, my license is on the line. This all happens in Massachusetts, if that matters. My stances are as follows:

1) I really need my license this summer. I’m going to college this year, and I’ve got 2 jobs and 2 younger brothers that I drive around to sports, etc, as well as myself. I’m in several extracurriculars at school. Mainly, I need it for my job, to make money to survive at school next year.

OR—

2) The cop was sitting at the bottom of a hill in a suburban neighborhood. The houses are setup in a decline, and there were cars in the driveways, hiding the policeman and his car.

Heres the deal. My brothers ex is a lying, vindictive person. They have a 6 month old together, and they broke up two months ago. She cut off my whole families visitation of the baby, and we have to wait to go to court to get anything done.
The only thing she has against him is a threatening email against her from a while ago. She made up some lies and got a restraining order on him couple months back stating that he sent her a bunch of threatening text messages, (which he didn’t). She filed for sole custody and no visitation rights for anyone in my family including the father.
She is a really immature person. 21 years old, no driver’s license, no education, no job, no motivation. In addition, she lives in a three bedroom apartment with the baby and 4 other family members. None of the family has jobs, they are all on welfare, foodstamps, etc.
My brother is an electrician, I am going to school, and my parents are both hardworking with jobs. My brother has a house for her to live in.
What do you think the chances are of him getting visitation rights of the child? Keep in mind that we are in liberal massachusetts.
We’ve all ready reported the family to Dept of Social Services, they, being a liberal feminist association, didn’t do anything.

walmart. age 15. highschool. good in acedemics like As & Bs in advance. Massachusetts. caught with stolen items in my bag.
first time getting caught.

do they notify my school? mail me? fine me? put it on a record? is it harder to apply for other jobs like hannaford? will they check my background etc? i lied about my age and gave them my cell number instead. any chance they wil figure out?

answer those questions please. i learned my lesson. please dont critisize me. i am a poor person by the way so i needed to survive. and now i will not try again

Tell me all democrats from Massachusetts why do you think Deval’s great? Got a new car for himself, hired his wife a 100000 secratary. To do nothing! Got expensive curtains for his office, was late on payment for using the helocopter. He stinks! And all you great republicans you **** deval feel free to comment and show the democrat donkeys why he stinks! Kerry Healy wouldve done a better job!

Chamber of Commerce Member Since: 4/28/2009
I’m Not sure if this is there real address. They called me on my cell phone telling me to pay by money gram today or they will take me to court. It was for a $200 payday loan. I losy my job and could not pay back MMG holdings so they sold it to the below agency. There is anothere address for them I found. First off I found out that the payday loan place can’t offer Mass Res. payday loans I did not know this. This is what I found. Massachusetts Payday Lending Laws
Along with Maryland and Georgia, Massachusetts is one of the few states that not only prohibits payday lending within the state, but prohibits local banking companies from working with out of state payday lenders to provide Massachusetts residents with payday loans as well.
There are a number of ways in which a state may prevent, or at least limit the payday industry in a state. Small loan interest rate caps, usury laws, or specific prohibitions on check cashing are the most common methods. Massachusetts uses the usury laws method.
The last battle that the state of Massachusetts is fighting concerning payday lending is in the online world. Although it is illegal for out of state payday lenders to offer Massachusetts residents payday loans, some companies are attempting to do so. They are currently being investigated.
The below collector was swearing at me on the phone and called my father an idiot for raising me and more. It’s like he was try to strong arm me. There have been many other complaints about this place and they are not licensed in Mass nor is the Payday load MMG holdings. I checked with the division of Banks in Mass.Can I send thema email of cease and desist I dont want to waste money sending out
Certified letters to two different places

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Mitt Romney handily won all the states he has a big history with; Massachusetts, Michigan, & Utah; his competition can stop saying Mitt has a bad record there.

Mitt needs to focus on his history with these states & with his private sector business rather than to use vague criticism that McCain or Huckabee aren’t conservative enough. We need to hear the specifics.

Mass – Mitt turned a $3 BILLION deficit into a $700 MILLION surplus w/out raising taxes, brought 60,000 new jobs after the mass exodus preceeding him, the TOP 25% of students get to go to state colleges or universities for free, he got us healthcare using the conservative approach. In Utah- Winter Olympics. Also focus on his private sector life.

Mitt needs to be specific & focus on the economy. We’re in a recession! Jobs are getting scarce especially in certain areas, business are leaving the U.S., forclosures are astronomical. Mitt has a great record to run on, but people need specifics.
McCain admits he knows nothing about economics. He has been in charge of a border state for 25 years, but doesn’t have a completed border. McCain called us ****** for not supporting his amnesty plan. McCain called Christians agents of intolerance.

Huckabee raised taxes and commuted the sentence of murderers. Huckabee wants to make the Constitution more God friendly.

The statement “not conservative enough” is too vague. People don’t get what you mean by that. People however, do understand when you list a litany of differences and your own good record.
Now that Mitt can prove that he has overwhelming support of his constituents; his critics can stop saying negative things about his record.
I’m voting my conscience. I will not suport a candidate that does not jive with my core values or calls me names just because he’s the nomination. I’m stick with Romney as long as he’s in it. I may even write his name on my ballot if he’s not on it in November.

A textbook case of piracy
By Alex Beam
Globe Columnist / September 9, 2008
I was heartened to learn that college kids are wielding the same Internet piracy tools they used to bring down the recording industry to download textbooks. Although the textbook oligopolists are fighting back mightily – the Association of American Publishers uses Covington & Burling, a take-no-prisoners law firm in Washington, D.C., to hunt down malefactors – there are at least two sites still around offering books: Textbook Torrents tends to be shut down, and moves around the Web, but the last time I checked, thepiratebay.org was offering such books as – well, you’ll see.

As a writer, how can I support this? I should be an absolutist on copyright protection for all books, magazines, and newspapers. But I’m not. The publishers have disgraced themselves, and they are paying the price. Three-hundred-dollar textbooks in the hard sciences are not unusual, and the companies are selling to a captive audience. Hundred-dollar add-ons, masquerading as digital workbooks, or problem-solving sets, are not uncommon.

Publishers love to put out bogus “new” editions to drive a stake though the heart of the used textbook market, which was gaining its second wind at online auction sites. It’s not as if calculus changed since Newton invented it, is the rallying cry you hear from student activists.

How do I know textbook publishers are nothing but pirates in pin-striped suits? Because when the fast-buck artists take over a company like Houghton Mifflin, they never talk about how proud they are to be publishing Philip Roth and J.R.R. Tolkien. They know they are going to make a killing in the profit-choked textbook division, which gorges on the goodwill of parents who want their children to be properly equipped for college courses.

Now most textbook publishers are going digital, and Amazon is promising a larger-format Kindle reader for the student market. The publishers say that iTexts, which often cost less than $100, save students money. But their opponents, led by a coalition of Student Public Interest Research Groups, point out that the password-protected digi-texts put the sword to the used-book market so despised by the publishers.

Congress has gotten into the act, legislating more “transparency” in textbook pricing in the just-passed Higher Education Opportunity Act. It looks like a jumble of half-measures to me. If it had any teeth, the publishers would be squawking madly.

A young Northeastern University student named Shawn Fanning wrung billions of dollars of excess profits from the record companies when he invented Napster. Yes, it’s true that recording “artists” now gouge young people 10 times more aggressively at the concert turnstiles than they ever did at Tower Records stores, which no longer exist around here. But Steve Jobs found the right price point for music at iTunes. Between the pirates and the publishers, we’ll find our way to the right price point for textbooks, too.

Now it’s time to arbitrage . . . tuition.

Don’t steal this book
Inevitably, a reviewer will call John Hanson Mitchell, author of “The Paradise of All These Parts: A Natural History of Boston,” a latter-day Henry David Thoreau, not necessarily a compliment. Call him what you will – in real life, he edits the Massachusetts Audubon Society magazine Sanctuary – he is a smart guy, walking around, paying attention. I’d name his genre nostalgic realism; Mitchell certainly knows where this city and its many peculiar institutions come from, and he understands modernity as well.

I love that his brother owns a boat named after Richard Henry Dana, and that it doesn’t have an engine – there’s Boston in a nutshell. I think this book will take its place next to Walter Muir Whitehill’s “Boston,” with engravings by Rudolph Ruzicka, as one of the treasured Hub tomes of our time.

Able was I . . .
Ere I saw Alaska? Send in your Sarah Palin-dromes! A palindrome is a phrase that makes sense read forward and backward – e.g., “Madam, I’m Adam.” I think there’s a lot to work with here: Is Levi vile? Close, but no cigar. I’ll buy the winner a used copy of the kind of book that Governor Palin wanted to keep out of her local library – “Huckleberry Finn,” perhaps.

Alex Beam is a Globe columnist. His e-dress is beam@globe.com.

http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2008/09/09/a_textbook_case_of_piracy/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+–+Living+%2F+Arts+News

ok i was caught shoplifting at target and i payed the fine and they said the incident was only between everyone in the room and the store i want to know if it would come up in a backround check for a job application because the item was under 30$ and i payed the fine and i live in MA Massachusetts’s and i dont know what would happen like if it would appear in the check or not i really need to know.