My friend said this year her company got the highest increase in healthcare premiums (NJ). The admin there told her they had never seen anything like that before in her entire working career. I guess I got the answer to a last year question of how much worse 1/2
I’ve never had a perception of Bucks country being divided. Perhaps it is. But it is an interesting advantage to be in the place where you can just go out of the house, talk to your neighbours, drive around the neighbourhood, and have a pretty clear picture of who the next..
We provided funding for a documentary series titled Bucks County, USA, that follows several families navigating the tensions that have come to define our politics.
At the center of the story are two teenage girls whose parents have become bitterly divided over their kids’ education.
The adults disagree about nearly everything, but the kids have figured out something many of us seem to have forgotten: you can disagree profoundly with someone and still care about them, listen to them, and remain friends.
We can and must learn from our children.
It starts streaming tomorrow, Sept 20th, on https://t.co/7Pro0XPAsz and then on public television stations across the country. Join the conversation @BucksCountyUSA #BucksCountyUSA
Don’t miss it.
@rajatsuri I see more and more posts like this. While I always respect an individual’s opinion the narrative is dangerous for regular people. I can’t even count now how many children of people that I know didn’t go to college. They aren’t doing as good as those who did go.
I was helping my relative with her enrollment to a community college during 2010s. When her entrance exams were passed, we went to a college advisor who was supposed to enroll her into the classes for the upcoming semester. The advisor opened her books (her computer system was..
"I teach mathematics at UC Berkeley. Three days a week, I stand in front of lecture halls with 500 to 1,400 students. By the second week of the semester, I already know who is in trouble. Some students are five to eight years behind in mathematics. Office hours that should be spent discussing integrals instead become lessons on fractions and basic algebra you would expect students to learn in middle school." https://t.co/O7kHijYCKB
All of these classes are for domestic students enrolling from high school. The CC is located in one of the best areas in PA. As I was clearly surprised by all of that I started asking more questions. She said that about 50% of high school students need to retake..
down) and started to go through classes that still had available spots. There were a lot of courses for basic English and Math. Most of them were full. I was surprised to see that and I asked the advisor if the college had a lot of international students. Her reply was that..
As I’ve gotten older I understand why 99% of my friends stayed in Pennsylvania
PA smokes every other state in terms of walkable urbanism. It’s dotted with beautiful, cozy walkable towns like Doylestown, New Hope, Lititz, Lancaster, Germantown, Jim Thorpe.
One of the only states where you can afford a home on an acre or 2 and be within range of several major cities, beaches, mountains.
The people yearn for a Main Street town, especially in a country choking on decades of car-centric urban development and suburbia purgatory.
Combine all this with a reasonable cost of living, northeast corridor location, heavy tree cover, 4 seasons, etc there’s a lot to love about PA. I’m not surprised real estate has continued to appreciate while FL/TX/Sun Belt markets have contracted.
Not sure if I will ever move back but I hold my home state close to my heart, shout out Bucks County <3
@offredred@athenaeumbc With some of the classics, like War and Peace as a one example, it’s about the language. The way things are described. That alone expands the mind. My son and I read Onion John by Joseph Krumgold recently. What a book! The descriptions of concepts and situations are priceless.