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Showing posts with label University of Maryland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label University of Maryland. Show all posts

Friday, December 23, 2016

How Long Will It Take That Muslim Students Require Colleges To Provide Free Education, Guaranteed Graduation, Free Housing, Guaranteed Jobs And Anything Else Their "Privileged" Minds Can Dredge Up?



MUSLIM STUDENTS DEMAND PRAYER ROOMS IN EVERY MAJOR CAMPUS BUILDING


(Breitbart) — Muslim students at the University of Maryland are asking administrators to put a prayer room in every major campus building as part of a long list of demands.
Students at the University of Maryland have put together a list of 64 demands to administrators in their ProtectUMD initiative to make the campus more hospitable to “marginalized student populations,” including Muslims, Campus Reform reports.
muslim prayer photo
Photo by Andrew E. Larsen 
Other demands by Muslim students to administrators include being provided shuttle bus services to the local mosque and a request that “their names be kept from President-elect Donald Trump if he creates a nationwide Muslim registry,” the Daily Mail reported.
Students said they had difficulty accessing the current prayer room and “often resorted to praying in stairwells as a result.”
Donald Trump said he is still considering the registry after the Islamic extremist attack on Berlin’s Christmas market Wednesday.
Students asked to be protected from a potential Muslim registry because the university has information on each enrolled student.
“It would provide a sense of safety if we knew the university wasn’t the one giving the government that information about us and feeling like our administration is protecting us and willing to do that carries some value,” Sarah Eshera told student newspaper The Diamondback. 
Other “marginalized” groups also included their own list of demands into the master list. One demand from “undocumented students” would require the University of Maryland to become a “sanctuary campus.”…

Sunday, December 8, 2013

Unemployment Not As Low As Reported, GDP Gains, Tapering Coming

Peter Morici to Moneynews: True Unemployment Rate at 13 Percent

Friday, 06 Dec 2013 01:55 PM
By Dan Weil and Lisa Barron
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While Friday's jobs report represents a sign of progress, it also understates the magnitude of the unemployment problem, said Peter Morici, a professor of international business at the University of Maryland and a Moneynews Insider.

The headline number for unemployment fell to a five-year low of 7 percent last month. But the total exceeds 13 percent if you count people who have given up looking for work or are working less than they'd like, he tells Newsmax TV in an exclusive interview.

"We see this at both ends of the labor force, young people who are basically reluctant graduate students for the third time and older folks in their 50s who have lost their jobs," Morici said.

While non-farm payrolls gained 203,000 in November, "we're not getting the kinds of numbers we would need to get unemployment to an acceptable level and have high quality jobs," Morici said.Still, "they [the jobs numbers] are a lot better than we were expecting," he said. "And going forward, 2014 will be a little better year. We're not going to get the 400,000 jobs a month we need, but we're going to get more jobs than we've been getting."
As for the economy, third-quarter GDP growth was revised up to 3.6 percent Thursday from 2.8 percent previously. But the gain came largely in inventories, Morici notes. That will have a dampening effect on fourth-quarter growth as those inventories need to be worked off, he said.
He expects growth of about 2.5 percent for 2014 and 2015. "However, this is nowhere near what can be accomplished," Morici said. "Ronald Reagan, at this point in his recovery, had the economy growing at nearly 5 percent, and he was recovering from a deeper recession than Mr. Obama
"Morici said the economy is strong enough for the Federal Reserve to begin tapering its quantitative easing. The Fed is buying $85 billion of Treasurys and mortgage-backed securities a month."We'll start tapering in January and February," the professor predicted. "I believe we've gotten all we can get out of steroids, and now we have to get down to fundamental structural reforms." 
If President Barack Obama is unwilling to make those reforms, the Fed should stop bailing him out, "because it's building up a lot of negative effects in the agricultural land market, in the real-estate market, and so forth," Morici said.

The Fed should avoid tapering dramatically, so that it doesn't send the economy and stock market out of whack, he said.

"This is something the U.S. economy can accept and the stock market can deal with," Morici said.

"There may be an initial adjustment in the market because you know how the market is. It should be looking ahead six months. Instead, it looks ahead six days and maybe only six hours at times. But tapering is on the way."


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