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East side school teaches financial literacy by giving students $50 a week
In partnership with Penn, a pilot program at Rooted School Indianapolis will study how teenagers learn to manage money by providing them with weekly allowances.
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How this company plans to use Earth’s heat to cool the planet
Hélène Pilorgé of the School of Engineering and Applied Science outlines one of the main ways to pull CO2 out of the air, the “solid sorbent” method.
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U.S. holds $31 trillion debt. What would it take to shrink it?
Kent Smetters of the Wharton School and colleagues found that achieving fiscal balance would require the federal government to hike tax revenues by more than 40% or cut expenditures by 30%, or some combination of the two.
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Philly Habitat for Humanity to receive $4 million grant for home repair program
A study by Eugenia C. South of the Perelman School of Medicine and John MacDonald of the School of Arts & Sciences and colleagues found that repairing a home can reduce crime on a block by 23 percent.
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AI bots can seem sentient. Students need guardrails
Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School says that students already have a template for understanding issues of academic integrity and accuracy in AI chat bots.
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Apple TV wants Pac 12 broadcast rights despite loss of UCLA and USC
Karen Weaver of the Graduate School of Education says that the Big Ten were forward thinking when they created their own network from offerings for all their athletic programs.
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Subscription fatigue: More companies are charging monthly fees. How much can consumers take?
Raghuram Iyengar of the Wharton School says that subscription models provide an opportunity for companies to segment the market.
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Shapiro admin contends taking Super Bowl tickets from group that gets state money didn’t violate governor’s own gift ban
Claire Finkelstein of Penn Carey Law says that the Shapiro administration’s gift ban in Pennsylvania casts a wide net as to who is under its purview, including anyone who does business with the state or has any hope of doing business.
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A national TikTok trend is sparking thefts of Kias and Hyundais in Philadelphia—and residents are feeling the impact
PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton calls the Kia Boyz Challenge on TikTok a “perfect storm” for young people in cities where vehicle theft is common, since they know it could be a shortcut to notoriety.
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Forgotten painting by a 19th century French rebel is discovered at Penn
University Curator Lynn Marsden-Atlass and André Dombrowski of the School of Arts & Sciences comment on the discovery of a 150-year-old painting by radical French realist Gustave Courbet on Penn’s campus.