Those who can, teach! The case for reopening schools
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The Economist
4.4 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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The world’s students are falling behind and lockdown is only exacerbating prior disparities in their progress; we examine a compelling back-to-school argument. America’s Environmental Protection Agency is rolling back yet more pollution protections, but who stands to gain is unclear. And why so many urban Kenyans understate their salaries to the villagers back home.
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| 0:36.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. |
| 0:39.2 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 0:41.3 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:49.5 | From the Trump administration's earliest days, |
| 0:51.8 | the Environmental Protection Agency has been unpicking Obama-era regulation. |
| 0:56.8 | Now the EPA is added again. |
| 0:59.3 | Yet even some of the industries that might benefit |
| 1:01.9 | aren't all that excited about the changes. |
| 1:05.2 | And some city slickers in Kenya are telling the villagers |
| 1:08.2 | that they left behind that they make a lot less money than they do. |
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