Youngstown State University officially hires Ohio US Rep. Bill Johnson as next president

https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/northeast-ohio/ohio-us-rep-bill-johnson-accept-job-youngstown-state-university-president/95-f8221c2b-dc65-4d29-82b3-515106388534
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Ohio U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson will leave Congress to accept the job as Youngstown State University's next president, the 69-year-old announced Tuesday.

Johnson, a Republican who has represented Ohio's 11th Congressional District since 2011, did not offer an exact timeline for his departure but says he will stay in the House of Representatives "for several more months" before taking over YSU. The school offered Johnson the position last week, the culmination of a search that began following Jim Tressel's retirement in February.

"As I’ve stated previously, I wasn’t looking for another job, because I love the one I have serving the people of Eastern Ohio in the U.S. House," Johnson wrote on X (formerly Twitter). "This was an extremely difficult decision."

>A Zionist organization sued the University of California on Tuesday, accusing the UC Berkeley Law School of promoting anti-Semitism and discriminating against Jews by allowing student groups to bar Zionists as speakers at their meetings.
>“Zionism is an integral component of Jewish identity,” attorneys for the Louis D. Brandeis Foundation said in a lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco. “Anti-Zionism is discrimination against those who recognize the Jews’ ancestral heritage — in particular the Jews’ historic connection to the land of Israel.”
>The suit says it “targets the longstanding, unchecked spread of antisemitism at the University of California Berkeley.”

You don't have to let a white supremacist who believes America should be a racist ethnostate to speak at a meeting at UC Berkeley, but you do have to let jewish supremacists who believe Israel should be a racist ethnostate speak.
The power of money and privilege!

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/berkeley-zionism-lawsuit-18519844.php

What's it gonna take to make a dream survive?
Who's got the touch to calm the storm inside?
Don't say goodbye
Don't say goodbye
In the final seconds who's gonna save you?
Oh, alive and kicking
Stay until your love is, love is, alive and kicking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljIQo1OHkTI

If there is one statistic that best captures the transformation of the American economy over the past half century, it may be this: Of Americans born in 1940, 92 percent went on to earn more than their parents; among those born in 1980, just 50 percent did. Over the course of a few decades, the chances of achieving the American dream went from a near-guarantee to a coin flip. What happened?

One answer is that American voters abandoned the system that worked for their grandparents. From the 1940s through the ’70s, sometimes called the New Deal era, U.S. law and policy were engineered to ensure strong unions, high taxes on the rich, huge public investments, and an expanding social safety net. Inequality shrank as the economy boomed. But by the end of that period, the economy was faltering, and voters turned against the postwar consensus. Ronald Reagan took office promising to restore growth by paring back government, slashing taxes on the rich and corporations, and gutting business regulations and antitrust enforcement. The idea, famously, was that a rising tide would lift all boats. Instead, inequality soared while living standards stagnated and life expectancy fell behind that of peer countries. No other advanced economy pivoted quite as sharply to free-market economics as the United States, and none experienced as sharp a reversal in income, mobility, and public-health trends as America did. Today, a child born in Norway or the United Kingdom has a far better chance of outearning their parents than one born in the U.S.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/new-deal-us-economy-american-dream/676051/?utm_source=feed