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As families in the United States grapple with rising prices and ongoing supply shortages, fiscal and monetary policymakers are shifting their focus from the COVID-19 recession and recovery to the…

Income is inextricably linked to access to education in America and it has been for a century, according to a new study. The study in the Proceedings of the National Academy…

Recovering jobs was one of the top priorities throughout the pandemic. It’s confusing, then, for employers to struggle to fill those roles, having worked so hard to be able to…

Schools nationwide are facing teacher shortages, and though no official database keeps track, anecdotal and historical evidence suggests rural areas are harder hit. “Why are America’s schools so short-staffed? Experts…

The establishment of large-scale agriculture under the Indonesian government’s “food estate” programme is harming local farmers in Sumatra, a study has found. The programme was announced in 2020 by President Joko Widodo…

In January 2020, Kelly Gilbert felt as if her life was at a standstill. The new mom was suffering from postpartum depression. She had just resigned from her security job…

This brief highlights lessons from the City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) Centers of Excellence model, which has redesigned each of the system’s seven campuses as a “college-to-career center” and consolidated academic…

Decades after the Civil Rights Movement and the abolition of explicit racial discrimination, Black households in the United States still hold only a fraction of the wealth of White households.…

Recently, Surjit Bhalla took me to task for (supposedly) using female labor force participation (FLFP) as an indicator of women’s status. He argues that FLFP measurement reflects cross-national differences in definitions of…

  In the winter of 2021, Matt Littrell was a 22-year-old worker at an Amazon warehouse in Campbellsville, Kentucky. Then, the workers at an Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, began…

As a heatwave engulfed northern and central Vietnam earlier this month, customers reaching for their phones to order food or a ride on the Grab app learned they would have…

At The Learning Accelerator, we believe an inclusive and welcoming environment is critical to push learning forward and create spaces that allow students and educators alike to engage, grow, and…