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Is There Something Fishy about the Polygraph?

Anthropology News

He also worked for the US government, polygraphing German prisoners of war during World War II, as well as hundreds of employees of the top-secret uranium production facility at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. His advocacy for the polygraph backfired when he testified in defense of James Frye , a Black man who had recanted a murder confession.

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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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