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There have been more than a few emails between the State of Opportunity team this week about research or articles with some version of "we need to share…
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The American Dream is an idea that has a long history in this country. For immigrants in the 1800s, America was seen as a land of opportunity, a place…
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In the early 1800s, the newly formed state of Georgia had a lot of new land under its control. The land had been taken mostly from the native Muskogee and…
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I've been planning to do a radio story on empathy for more than a year, but it's never really come together. Now I probably don't have to. This animation…
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Every so often we post something in the "whiteboard" category. Named after the modern incarnation of the chalkboard, they're usually meant to help…
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I came across a study today that looked at how a group of very gifted children became "innovators and leaders" as adults. The study, from Vanderbilt…
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We all know words have meaning. But where I think we can agree we might have to disagree is on the "right" meaning of certain words. We've noticed the…
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We all know about the American Dream, right? Start out poor, work hard, become rich. But Diana Elliott, with the Pew Charitable Trust's Economic Mobility…
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My colleague Steve Carmody reported yesterday on a new study looking at the social factors at play in Michigan's higher-than-average infant mortality…
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I've been thinking a lot about names lately - what they mean, what they project, what kinds of assumptions people make when they hear a name. So I decided…