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There’s been a puzzling trend over the last few decades: Adjusted for inflation, school funding has increased substantially, but teacher salaries have not. In recent years, real teacher pay has actually dipped as inflation surged. Pay matters for every profession, including teaching, for obvious reasons. It shapes who enters and stays in the work. Talented […]
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Medicaid enrollees from five states and leading medical organizations filed a lawsuit Friday challenging new Medicaid work requirements. The broad tax and spending law that President Donald Trump signed last summer, known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, established work, school or community service requirements for low-income adults who receive Medicaid under expansion provisions […]
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Back in 1990, I attended a talk by Jim Hansen, a lead climate modeler and director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. He concluded that the models were working well and could now reasonably predict global warming trends. An audience member asked when the public would believe the results of climate modeling. My […]