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His father, who seems to have been an intellectual but without much formal education, grew the hard red spring wheat of the northern prairies.
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U.S. expenditure on education doubled between 1992 and 2006 without doing much for the middle class financially.
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It warns that without productivity improvements much of the extra money spent on health and education may be wasted.
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"You can bring fast broadband to everyone in the country, but without the education to use it, it won't mean much, " he says.
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Without formal education or valuable skills, it is hard to lift incomes much further.
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"It's so much of a relief to know he can get his education without having to miss school because he is out sick all the time, " Ms. Oliver says.
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Some higher-education experts say the strategy could bring Sewanee accolades without actually costing it much money.
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Educated workers, on average, earn more than workers with less education and college grads are much more likely to have jobs than those without college degrees.
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Back in the olden days when I ran the Dallas Fed, we had an extensive outreach program for economic education, including seminars for teachers who taught economics in high school, often without much training themselves.
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On a deeper note it is much more, because our whole society is based on the working men and women of America, and without education we cannot advance in the world.
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