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‘We’re aides, not maids.’ How one high-demand job shows education system’s failings

The Hechinger Report

If those things aren’t fixed, the suffering will be felt not only by the “millions and millions of people [who] work very hard at very difficult and important jobs and get poverty wages,” said Paul Osterman, a professor of human resources and management at MIT and author of the book “Who Will Care for Us?” For years the U.S.

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What education could look like under Harris and Walz

The Hechinger Report

Since 2021, the Biden administration has poured billions into helping public schools recover from the pandemic in various ways: to pay for more staff and tutors and upgrade facilities to improve air conditioning and ventilation, among other things. They say doubling the Pell grant would make it easier for low-income students to earn a degree.

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