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I am a retired librarian, most recently serving at Indiana Wesleyan University's Cleveland Education Center.

Monday, November 18, 2024

International Competition in Solar Panel Innovation and Marketing

David Fickling reports on how China became dominant in solar panels, despite the technology having been developed in the U.S.

-DD

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Monday, August 24, 2015

Poverty and Educational Attainment

David Leonhardt and Kevin Quealy report that the middle class in the U.S. is faltering , in part due to poor educational attainment:

Educational attainment in the United States has risen far more slowly than in much of the industrialized world over the last three decades, making it harder for the American economy to maintain its share of highly skilled, well-paying jobs.

Americans between the ages of 55 and 65 have literacy, numeracy and technology skills that are above average relative to 55- to 65-year-olds in rest of the industrialized world, according to a recent study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an international group. Younger Americans, though, are not keeping pace: Those between 16 and 24 rank near the bottom among rich countries, well behind their counterparts in Canada, Australia, Japan and Scandinavia and close to those in Italy and Spain.

-DD

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