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Is There Something Fishy about the Polygraph?

Anthropology News

In May 2017, my research assistant Dana Burton and I sat through a nine-day trial at the US District Court in Baltimore, watching Phil Heasley challenge the validity of the polygraph test he had failed so as to reclaim the $2.8 Credit: Robert Engberg Striped marlin Tetrapturus audax: 114.6 million snatched away from him.

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Work rules for benefits programs deter low-income Americans from going to college

The Hechinger Report

That means coordinators avoid directing too many recipients into education, said Bryce McKibben, senior director of policy and advocacy at the Hope Center for College, Community and Justice at Temple University. Some of those concerns are I feel like not only a red herring but also fairly unfounded in terms of what the data tell us.”

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