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Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs

Sapiens

The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. His best-known writings challenged views in liberal economics about the origins of money, attempting to reconceive the historical relationship between debt and social institutions. David Graeber speaks at a panel in 2012.

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OPINION: How to use university endowments for coronavirus recovery

The Hechinger Report

Using endowments to avert layoffs also could help spur a faster economic recovery. During the 2008 financial crisis, university layoffs contributed to broader public-sector job cuts that undermined federal efforts to stimulate economic recovery. This would encourage universities to use their endowments to reduce growing inequities.

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How Lifelong Readers Are Helping Communities Thrive

Digital Promise

Economic Growth. UNESCO reports that to achieve and accelerate continuous economic growth, at least 40% of the population must be taught to read and write. Allington 2012. Just one additional year of school boosts an individual’s earnings by as much as 10%. The payoff for society is even greater. Bayless 2010. Robinson 2010.

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For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

The Hechinger Report

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. But in the midst of his studies, he stumbled and had to retake an economics course.

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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

The Hechinger Report

With people of color expected to make up a quarter of the state’s population by 2035, these gaps represent an economic threat to Minnesota; unless more residents get to and through college, there won’t be enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that require a post-secondary degree or certificate. Will jobs go begging?

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Progress in the Deep South: Black students combat segregation, poverty and dwindling school funding

The Hechinger Report

The economic futures of African Americans without a high school diploma are especially bleak. In 2012, 57 percent of ”minority” students (almost all African American) graduated from Avoyelles Parish high schools, lower than the percentage of adults with a diploma. “For Liza Jacobs, principal of Marksville High School.

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Olukunle Owolabi Receives the 2024 Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award for “Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects”

Political Science Now

Moreover, Owolabi’s extraordinary ability to reach across contexts, time periods, literatures and even disciplines ranging from political science and sociology to history and economics sets the book apart. University of Notre Dame, 2012). He holds degrees in International Relations (B.A.