Outside money targets school board elections
Wealthy individuals and national advocacy groups are using their cash to get people who support education reforms elected to local school boards.
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Wealthy individuals and national advocacy groups are using their cash to get people who support education reforms elected to local school boards.
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Author Michael Pollan discussed the Farm Bill’s far-reaching impact on the U.S. food system and the environment, how journalists can better cover food policy, and more during a visit to Harvard’s Shorenstein Center.
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Politicians looking to reform America’s tax system often talk about closing loopholes and cutting deductions. What does this mean? And who is lobbying against the changes?
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How does daylight saving time affect our health? We review the research.
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American road engineers are using temperature models that do not consider the warming climate, costing the country billions in early repairs, a new study finds.
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Restaurant owners benefited the most from a sales tax cut in France, pocketing around 41 percent of the savings.
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Americans are not all enjoying the same life expectancy gains. The differences, when mapped by county, could have predicted the 2016 presidential election.
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A higher number of children are abducted by family members in the United States than previously thought. A new study suggests mothers and female relatives are most often the perpetrators.
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Jews have long been associated with finance and banking. Today, people in areas of Germany that historically experienced the highest levels of anti-Semitism are economically worse off, new research shows.
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Offshore tax havens help disguise the extent of income inequality. New research looks at who evades taxes, where, and how they contribute to inequality.
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