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FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Magilke qualified for a government grant to go back to school, she was told, at a place the center suggested: an online company called MedCerts. Since 2018, just 54 percent of people who attended WIOA-approved programs became employed at all after completing their program. It’s just frustrating.”

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FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Ramsey blamed Americans for their economic struggles amid a pandemic that has decimated the economy and left more than 20 million people unemployed, arguing that “you have a career problem, you have a debt problem, you have a relationship problem, you have a mental health problem, or something else is going on if $600 changes your life.”.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 8, 2024

The study challenges conventional interpretations of radical right support as solely a rural phenomenon or a product of adverse economic conditions. Furthermore, their research demonstrates that the effect of dialectal distance is not just a proxy for the urban-rural divide or economic factors.

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MARCH 22, 2023

When she needed money to start college, she was advised to borrow from a private lender instead of the federal government and, because of that, she’s stuck with $81,000 debt. I’m frustrated, because, what can I do? I’d be in the same position as these other people had my loans been federal, period,” said Luciano, who is now 37.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

In the dim light of a Monday morning in August 2018, Meng, a 33-year-old woman living near Beijing, began her day with a sense of urgency. I conducted fieldwork among Chinese middle-class investors from 2018 to 2021, precisely during the period marked by the industry’s decline, to capture people’s shifting perception of their financial lives.

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MAY 22, 2020

If fewer international students enroll, the economic fallout will be severe. In the 2017-2018 school year, 34 percent of international students were from China. In the 2017-2018 school year, it had more international students than any other historically black college or university. Many come from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

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APRIL 18, 2023

That’s taken a dramatic toll on colleges and universities, with severe consequences for society and economic growth — a situation now also being faced by the United States, where the number of 18-year-olds has begun to drop in some states and soon will fall nationwide.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In 2018, Congress increased annual funding for CTE, which now exceeds $1.4 You can’t see that in most places,” said Daniel Kreisman, an economics professor at Georgia State University who helped launch an effort to inform CTE policymakers by compiling data and producing research. Do they earn good wages?

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JUNE 23, 2020

Whatever the reason a school has to close, something needs to fill the educational, economic, and social voids created by the closure. In 2013, the federal government estimated that schools nationwide needed a $550 billion investment to bring them up to standard, just for deferred maintenance issues — damage from postponing repairs.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

billion a year from the federal government and other sources that the National Science Foundation calculates is spent by academia on research is not intended to immediately result in commercial applications. The economic development argument is tenuous at best and probably even less than tenuous,” Levine said. Most of the $75.3

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 26, 2024

This piece, written by Dirck de Kleer , covers the new article by Jonathan Parry, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Christina Easton, The University of Warwick, “Filling the Ranks”: Moral Risk and the Ethics of Military Recruitment.” In other work, he explores the implications of far-right parties in government.

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MARCH 29, 2024

based Virtual Internships was established in 2018 with the goal of removing barriers to internship participation, especially abroad, co-founder Ed Holroyd Pearce said. The program offers fully remote internships that last one to four months, require a commitment of 10, 20 or 30 hours per week, and have start dates throughout the year.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Don’t give up on the protagonist until the story is told,” said William Gormley, a professor of government and public policy at Georgetown University and co-director of its Center for Research on Children in the United States, which has overseen much of the Tulsa research. The advent of universal preschool for all children is more recent.

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JANUARY 21, 2019

National Center for Education Statistics blog, December 2018. In a December 2018 report , the U.S. According to the government’s report, education spending rose for the third straight year in 2015-16 to $11,841 per student in kindergarten through 12th grades. That’s a 2.9 percent from 2013-14.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

These jobs, which employed up to 36 percent of all Americans full or part time in 2018, rarely offer access to employer-provided health insurance, paid sick time, paid family leave, minimum wage guarantees or basic labor protections. But too many others, like Peter and his family, have been harmed by the gig economy.

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MARCH 11, 2020

From our nation’s founding to the present, government-sponsored and supported policies have relegated black Americans to the outskirts of mainstream society. Economic mobility and security across successive generations have been inaccessible to black communities. higher education exacerbate, rather than reduce, these inequities.

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MAY 11, 2020

In another measure of the massive economic toll of the pandemic on higher education, the resulting shutdowns have been singularly devastating to the college towns in which these campuses are situated. Related: What has happened when campuses shut down for other disasters? Mindy Domb, whose district includes Amherst.

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APRIL 22, 2020

So, as Congress considers how to respond to this deepening public health and economic disaster, it must take into account the pain that’s being acutely felt by black Americans. Now, because of the pandemic, and unless there’s assistance from the federal government, it’s likely to sink further.

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MAY 13, 2022

Economic and workforce development have been disrupted, so proposals that link education and the economy are going to be priorities on governors’ agendas,” said Tom Harnisch, vice president for government relations at the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, or SHEEO. The Colorado School of Mines. Eric Holcomb.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Some 2,400 districts — from regions synonymous with economic hardship to big cities and prosperous suburbs — did not report having even one homeless student despite levels of financial need that make those figures improbable. But some parents fear that acknowledging their housing struggles could prompt the government to take their kids away.

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JUNE 3, 2021

About a quarter of the workforce in industries such as power generation and water and sewer operations is 55 to 64 years old, according to the economic modeling firm Emsi. Companies, colleges and local governments haven’t always communicated well about workforce needs.

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MAY 8, 2020

By contrast, for student loans held by the federal government, borrowers don’t have to pay until Sept. In the 2018-2019 school year, about 12 percent of student loans were not federal, according to a report from the College Board. This lack of government regulation can put vulnerable borrowers at risk.

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APRIL 26, 2022

Schools were unable to cover teacher absences some 20 percent of the time in 2018-19, according to the Frontline Research and Learning Institute , a research firm. 1 in 5 — how many classes with absent teachers went unfilled in schools in 2018-19, before the pandemic. Even before Covid, the U.S.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

The analysis offers a comprehensive look at data that states will be required to report to the federal government at the end of this year under the Carl D. billion law that oversees career and technical education at the federal level was reauthorized in 2018 with an increased focus on equity. Perkins Act.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

When Karli Hinman enrolled at Stony Brook University in fall 2018, she knew her family couldn’t help her pay to continue her education. I think it’s a great philanthropy initiative that allows a rapid response,” says Justin Nalley, a senior policy analyst at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

The reforms have required school districts and other local government agencies to contribute more of their budgets toward paying down the pension debt, while also obligating workers to make financial sacrifices and cutting benefits for current retirees. By 2018, that figure had risen to $1,312. percent to 20.4.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Orange Coast offered me the opportunity to be a collegiate rower and part of the student government. Some 58 percent of Orange Coast students transferred in 2018 to four-year institutions, and many of those transfers were to prestigious universities such as UCLA, Cornell, Notre Dame and Northwestern.

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JUNE 11, 2019

million going toward the construction, they should demand that the New Orleans residents who need jobs and education the most benefit from the 10,000 potential private and government jobs developers and politicians are working to create in Federal City. Not only should local newspapers and consumer protection groups follow the $9.4

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2021

Seven percent of freshmen in fall 2018 were Black, down from 10 percent the year before and 13 percent in 2014. They tend to have higher graduation rates, and their alumni networks provide powerful economic and political connections. The 2018 drop in Black enrollment fueled a major push for improvement.

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JUNE 21, 2021

Despite recent talk of debt relief and free college, little government help has been forthcoming, especially for working adults. With the government mostly out of the picture, employers set aside tens of billions each year for tuition benefits programs, supposedly with the hope of building the skilled workforce they need.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Now, a new October 2018 review of class size research around the world finds at most small benefits to small classes when it comes to reading. Andreas Schleicher, director of the education and skills unit at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, has long been arguing that the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

million students did not fill out the FAFSA; if they had, NCAN estimates that about 813,000 of them would have been eligible for Pell Grants, the federal financial aid for students with significant economic need. More than 1.7 Related: The universities that enroll more poor students have less financial aid to give.

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AUGUST 11, 2023

Related: Students can’t learn if they don’t show up at school In seven states, the rate of chronically absent kids doubled for the 2021-22 school year, from 2018-19, before the pandemic. Many students are raised by grandparents who remember the government forcing Native children into boarding schools.

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Steven V. Miller

JANUARY 12, 2022

Economic Threats or Societal Turmoil? External Territorial Threats and Tolerance of Corruption: A #> Private/Government Distinction.” Peace Economics, Peace Science and #> Public Policy* 24(1). #> Economic Anxiety or Ethnocentrism? Economic Threats or Societal Turmoil? #> #> #> Miller, Steven V.

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APRIL 7, 2023

Black, Hispanic and economically disadvantaged students are likely to be affected the most by the most recent version of the law. The retention rate for Mississippi third graders in 2018-19 was about 10 percent. But the older law left retention decisions up to districts.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

A man watches an artificial intelligence (AI) news anchor from a state-controlled news broadcaster, on his computer in Beijing on November 9, 2018. The panel I spoke on responded to the work of Andreas Schleicher, education director for the intergovernmental Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

Brandeis accepted 44 percent of male applicants compared to 36 percent of female applicants in 2012-2013, according to data the university reports to the federal government. Overall, women have higher acceptance rates than men, around 64 percent for women at public four-year institutions, compared with 60 percent for men.

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