Worse, we are locked (due to the winner-take-all nature of our elections) into a two-party system, so that removes a lot of nuance from the equation and leads to inefficiencies.

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In addition, it is asking for London to be taken out of the grant system as it says the needs and population of London distorts the funding equation because of the way deprivation is measured.

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You begin to accept that, for better or worse, the old rules and rewards system is falling apart and the simple equation of exchanging your time and skills for a fixed salary and defined benefits over a 30-year period no longer adds up.

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To begin with, the Fed together with the banking system is on the one side of the interest rate equation.

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"So as we're reforming the 46 percent side of that equation, we're also having an impact on the 54 percent" of the system that's paid for privately, Leavitt said.

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So if we take that out of the equation by creating a single-payer system, then we will be able to cover anyone.

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Even if cost is removed from the equation, colleges and universities are faced with the enormous task of scaling a digital content system.

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