Democrats are losing rural votes not because of what they propose but because rural voters identify more with the Republican Party. “Democratic” ballot initiatives do well in rural, but Democratic candidates don’t. In politics these days, it’s not as much what is said as who says it. The reports on […]
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A massive new study shows which districts are having a bigger impact on student performance. The results might surprise you. A new study that examines educational progress of millions of U.S. pupils over a five-year span finds that there are few patterns for predicting how geography or socio-economic status affect […]
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Rural areas are more likely to have a combination of factors that help poor children succeed in the labor market later in life. Raj Chetty’s massive national study turns conventional wisdom on its head about the best places to grow up. You wouldn’t know it from national news reports that […]
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