This Is Why We Have to Invest in Effective Teachers.

Tweet (Akiit.com) While millions of children (and teachers) welcome the call to go back to school in August and early September, all is not well in classrooms and school districts around the country. Even though every school district is not facing challenges, many urban school districts – where the majority of African American and Hispanic […]

Waking Up From Ol Minimum Wage Fairy Tales.

Tweet (Akiit.com) The minimum wage persists as a fixture in public policy discussions because the idea remains popular with the general public. In a survey done by Pew Research in 2014, 73 percent favored increasing the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10. Bernie Sanders became a surprisingly popular presidential candidate, promising a federal minimum […]

Could Tech Help Make Poorer African-Americans Better Off?

Tweet (Akiit.com) When you think about the tech industry, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Probably an industry without a lot of African-American and black representation. But while it’s true that the sector is underrepresented, it’s coming up with new ideas that could change our lives. Price Comparison Sites One of the ways that […]

2016, If We Hadn’t Surrendered the Reins of Government.

Tweet (Akiit.com) I suppose that in a perfect world, Americans would not be consigned to a choice between P.T. Barnum and the villain Ursula from Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” when they went to the ballots this November. Then again, in a perfect world, Americans would have retained the reins of government rather than abdicating their […]

The Antonin Scalia Dividend.

Tweet (Akiit.com) “I don’t think there is anything to be gained by any Senator to vote against continuation of this act. And I am fairly confident it will be reenacted in perpetuity unless — unless a court can say it does not comport with the Constitution. “This was the late SCOTUS judge Antonin Scalia’s sharply […]

Please Don’t Make a Federal Case Out of It.

Tweet (Akiit.com) The Democrats are now playing the Russia card. As Donald Trump rises in the polls against an increasingly unpopular Hillary Clinton, Democrats are raising the specter of the nefarious Vladimir Putin. Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s famous reset of relations was a bust, but we are supposed to trust her to handle Putin […]

Statistics don’t always tell the whole story.

Tweet (Akiit.com) Mark Twain famously said that there were three kinds of lies — “lies, damned lies, and statistics.” Since this is an election year, we can expect to hear plenty of all three kinds. Even if the statistics themselves are absolutely accurate, the words that describe what they are measuring can be grossly misleading. […]

How Online Thieves Operate And Ways To Protect Yourself.

Tweet (Akiit.com) Protecting yourself from identity theft, used to just involve shredding sensitive letters. However these days, when so much of our lives are online it’s important to keep your digital information secure too. Here are some of the ways online criminals operate, and what you can do to protect against them. Social Networking How much […]

Hobbies That Pay Off Big.

Tweet (Akiit.com) Steve Jobs loved to tinker with computers. Back in the 1980s, he spent hours fiddling about with circuits, trying to figure out how they worked. For Jobs, it was a hobby. But, being the entrepreneurial spirit that he was, a hobby wasn’t enough. He saw an opportunity to turn his hobby into something that […]

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