"Active Shooter" Incidents On The Rise, According To New FBI Study

"Active Shooter" Incidents On The Rise, According To New FBI Study

As reported on NPR , the Federal Bureau of Investigation recently released the results of a study it conducted on "active shooter"...

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Record Number of Public School Students Nationwide Are Homeless

Record Number of Public School Students Nationwide Are Homeless

A new report published by the National Center for Homeless Education (NCHE) shows that there were 1,258,182  homeless children enrolled in ...

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The Consensus Is Universal: CEOs Get Paid Too Much

The Consensus Is Universal: CEOs Get Paid Too Much

In a paper titled " How Much (More) Should CEOs Make? A Universal Desire for More Equal Pay " to be published in Perspectives on P...

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Intergenerational Educational Mobility

Intergenerational Educational Mobility

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has released " Education At A Glance 2014: OECD Indicators ," a c...

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Poverty Level Remains Stubbornly High

Poverty Level Remains Stubbornly High

As reported in a recent Huffington Post article , the U.S. Census Bureau's latest figures show that 14.5 percent of Americans lived bel...

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Majority of Americans Still Support The Use of Spanking

Majority of Americans Still Support The Use of Spanking

As corporal punishment resurfaced in the news recently, the polling aggregation website FiveThirtyEight examined Americans' views of spa...

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The Demographics of Teaching: Why Don't More Men Become Teachers?

The Demographics of Teaching: Why Don't More Men Become Teachers?

In a recent New York Times article, Motoko Rich discusses the increasing gender imbalance in the teaching profession, a trend analyzed by Ri...

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Unsustainable Economic Divergence: Large Firms Thrive While Living Standards Stagnate Among Most Americans

Unsustainable Economic Divergence: Large Firms Thrive While Living Standards Stagnate Among Most Americans

Michael E. Porter and Jan W. Rivkin of Harvard Business School (HBS) recently released the results of their survey of 1,947 HBS alumni about...

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Time-Lapse Depiction of 24 Years of Unemployment Rate

Time-Lapse Depiction of 24 Years of Unemployment Rate

Using 24 years (1990-2013) of county-level data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Map Metrics created a time-lapse depiction of unemploym...

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Is A College Education Still A Good Investment?

Is A College Education Still A Good Investment?

As students head back to school in the gloomy context of rising tuition costs and student debt, falling wages for college graduates, and a c...

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