U.S. job numbers paint a positive story of economic recovery from the COVID-19 recession, but persistent racial gaps remain, job growth is concentrating in lower-paying industries, and wages are not keeping up with inflation. All these issues show the need for continued support to ensure all workers have quality jobs with decent pay and benefits, Makada Henry-Nickie, Regina Seo, and Anthony Barr say.
Legacy applicants get a college admissions bump equivalent to an extra 160 points on their SAT. In a new opinion piece, Richard Reeves argues that the practice of legacy preferences in college admissions is one of America’s most obvious examples of codified nepotism, and explains why it must end.
“As images of Russian brutality against innocent Ukrainians shock the conscience of the world, there is a natural impulse to frame the struggle in Europe as part of a global contest between democracies and autocracies. Taiwan’s leaders would be wise to restrain those impulses. Drawing analogies between Ukraine today and Taiwan tomorrow risks generating more costs than benefits for Taiwan’s future,” writes Ryan Hass.
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