Oregon schools lean heavily on emergency teachers, including untrained ones
Research from Richard Ingersoll of the Graduate School of Education shows that nearly half of teachers nationwide quit within their first five years on the job.
Inflation stalled in July as gas prices dropped
Nick Roussanov of the Wharton School suggests that inflation might be slowing down, with falling oil prices encouraging consumers to spend more freely.
People’s Kitchen is latest community garden threatened by sheriff sale
Rising second-year Kenny Chiu in the College of Arts and Sciences, an intern with People’s Kitchen, says that the sheriff sale is an opportunity for developers to grab land cheaply and sit on it until the neighborhood becomes profitable enough to develop.
Why is inflation so high and what happened last time it reached this level?
A study by the Penn Wharton Budget Model shows that the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 will slightly raise inflation for two years but reduce inflation by the late 2020s.
At 75, Pakistan has moved far from the secular and democratic vision of its founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah
Farah Jan of the School of Arts & Sciences writes that ideology and religion are divisive forces in modern-day Pakistan, far from Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s dream of a secular democratic homeland with equal rights for all.
Mostly bluster: Why China went easy on Taiwan’s economy
Thomas J. Shattuck of Perry World House says that future Chinese bans may be targeted to punish Taiwanese industries in Democratic Progressive Party strongholds, but that Taiwan’s semiconductor industry would be considered too essential to China’s economy.