{"id":282,"date":"2014-09-15T08:53:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2014\/09\/from-todays-tribune.html"},"modified":"2015-03-01T22:19:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T04:19:02","slug":"from-todays-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2014\/09\/from-todays-tribune.html","title":{"rendered":"From today’s Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
Mondays, when the Trib features lots of wire reports and general human interest stories because its reporters had the weekend off. \u00a0<\/div>\n

\u201cGun violence gave grandma heart-wrenching choice<\/a>\u201c: \u00a0 a report on a grandmother caring for her 3-year old grandson, who was severely damaged when his mother was shot and killed while she was 8 months pregnant. \u00a0At birth, he was diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state, and doctors recommended she remove him from life support.<\/p>\n

Weeks later, she set the date to pull the plug \u2014 Oct. 20, 2011, what would have been her daughter\u2019s 18th birthday. But she had a change of heart as she entered Advocate Christ Medical Center that day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t see turning the machine off on him,\u201d Jefferson said tearfully. \u201cWho am I to judge whether he lives or dies, OK?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For the past year, he\u2019s lived at her home, with two shifts of in-home nurses. \u00a0And I\u2019m not really interested in going into the question of whether she made the \u201cright\u201d choice in keeping him on the ventilator \u2014 I believe that she had the right to make that choice, just as much as others have the right to make the opposite choice.<\/p>\n

But the background to this current state is just another story of \u201cwhat\u2019s wrong in inner cities.\u201d \u00a0His mother was just 17 when she was shot, and left behind another son, who was one year old at the time his mother was shot. \u00a0If the father of either child is involved in any way in their lives, the story doesn\u2019t mention it (yes, of course, reporters have to make decisions about what to include, but you\u2019d think any attention shown by the father would be of interest). \u00a0And the mother was out at 10:30 at night, with her mother babysitting, \u201cwalking with a friend\u201d who happened to be a gang member, when a rival gang member approached them, shot at the \u201cfriend,\u201d who ran off, then shot her in the head. \u00a0Is it standard operating procedures for gang members to shoot outsiders in cold blood, or are the victims in such cases in some way considered as gang members themselves?<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, the suspect has been jailed since that point. \u00a0For three years. \u00a0The trial was set to begin last week, but the court proceeding was delayed for unspecified reasons. \u00a0Which means that the system has denied this man his right to a speedy trial, and unless the case is water-tight, I would assume that the long delays increase the risk that the suspect walks.<\/p>\n

Then, two quick wire-service articles in the Business section:<\/p>\n

\u201cMore employers demand college degrees, study finds<\/a>\u201d (The link is to the LA Times because the two publications share much of this type of reporting): \u00a0a report by the labor analytics firm Burning Glass Technologies found that more employers are demanding, in their help-wanted ads, college degrees for positions that have historically not required this. \u00a0The top example is executive assistants: \u00a020% of people currently holding this position have a degree, but 65% of postings require it. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe open question is whether employers are requiring a college degree because those job seekers bring something that lower levels of credentials don\u2019t, or whether it was a rule-of-thumb filter that someone put in along the way,\u201d [Burning Glass Chief Executive Matt] Sigelman said. \u201cIs it a conscious decision or something that\u2019s just sort of happened?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m not sure what Sigelman means by \u201crule-of-thumb filter\u201d but I imagine that he\u2019s thinking of a way of filtering out the large number of applications that prospective employers receive in our current tight job market.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the original report<\/a>, which I myself haven\u2019t read yet, but intend to do later today.<\/p>\n

And:<\/p>\n

\u201cMore seniors are carrying student loan debt into retirement<\/a>\u201c: \u00a0The numbers are small, but worrisome. \u00a0From a GAO report on the topic:<\/p>\n

More seniors are seeing a portion of their Social Security benefits garnished to pay back the debt. The number of people whose benefits were cut to pay for student loan debt grew to 155,000 in 2013 from 31,000 in 2002. Among those age 65 and older, the number grew by 500 percent over that time period, to 36,000 from about 6,000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Again, I want to find the original report, made harder by the fact that the Trib article doesn\u2019t give the report\u2019s title. \u00a0 How broad a definition of \u201cstudent loan\u201d does this include? \u00a0Does it include PLUS loans? \u00a0(For that matter, are these loans dischargeable? \u00a0You don\u2019t hear about them much.) \u00a0Loans where they\u2019ve co-signed for a child?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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