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OPINION: Schools Can Help Us Build Back Better and Address Climate Change

The Hechinger Report

Yet the role schools can play — both in economic recovery and in addressing climate change — is often overlooked. The role schools can play — both in economic recovery and in addressing climate change — is often overlooked. Yet this current underinvestment in school infrastructure presents an opportunity.

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Playing around with ChatGPT from OpenAI

Dangerously Irrelevant

Optimization: Polynomials can be used to find the maximum or minimum values of a function, which can be useful for solving optimization problems in fields such as engineering and economics. The Social Security Trust Funds, which are used to pay for Social Security benefits, are currently projected to be exhausted by 2035.

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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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Universities that are recruiting older students often leave them floundering

The Hechinger Report

With the number of 18- to 24-year-olds down and expected to remain flat through at least 2035, according to the U.S. Zac Mckinster, 28, a Navy veteran and new father, is double-majoring in finance and quantitative economics at Portland State. They’re assuming you might have to work after this.” There’s not a whole lot of wiggle room.”.

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