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Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Bob Somerby has been highlighting education this week, and his main beef is with an article in the New York Times that says Chicago students have “learned the most” of any big-city school district. This is based on a study by Sean Reardon that shows…

Who is this man talking to?Pete Marovich/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Once a month the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases new job numbers. The report is always released at 8:30 am, just like many other BLS releases, and before then it’s treated as extremely confidential, just like…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This chart appeared on the front page of the LA Times this morning: This data makes no sense. During the worst recession since World War II, the number of homeless people didn’t increase at all. Then, as the economy got into high gear, the number…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As I was browsing through the jobs numbers, I clicked on a table that I don’t usually pay any attention to: average weekly hours (including overtime) for production and nonsupervisory workers. These numbers don’t change much from month to month—which is why I don’t usually…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The second item that caught my attention as I was whiling away my day in the infusion center was this: Investors on track to recoup entire investment in Chicago parking meters by 2021, thereafter enjoying 62 more years of gross revenue as pure profit https://t.co/XdILw1mywG…

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. While I was being infused this morning, a couple of items caught my eye that I bookmarked for later research when I was back in front of my desktop computer. The first is American market share of the European auto market. Note that this has…