Editor's note
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Today Senate Democrats appear ready to block a bill to fund the government if Republicans refuse to include a provision to protect “Dreamers,” the undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children. American University’s Matthew Wright points out that the wider issue with any potential deal on immigration is that it will be woefully short of long sought-after comprehensive reform. “The only remotely viable path to a ‘comprehensive’ deal, it seems, is to leave millions of undocumented immigrants who are not Dreamers out
in the cold.”
According to new data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2017 was the third-warmest year on record. But that figure masks major extremes, from scorching heat last summer to arctic cold in late December. Economists Garth Heutel, David Molitor and Nolan Miller analyzed the impact of extreme temperatures on elderly people and found that both very hot weather and very cold weather can be deadly.
When colleges began to make the SAT optional, the idea was to make selective colleges more accessible to low-income and minority students. Penn State scholar Kelly Ochs Rosinger explains why things didn’t turn out that way.
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Bryan Keogh
Economics + Business Editor
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Senators meet with President Donald Trump to discuss immigration on Jan. 9, 2018.
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Matthew Wright, American University
If they pass a deal on DACA, it's a win for both sides of the aisle and thousands of ‘Dreamers,’ but a loss for millions of undocumented immigrants.
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Extreme cold weather in Atlanta, Ga., on Jan. 3, 2018.
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Garth Heutel, Georgia State University; David Molitor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Nolan Miller, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Many parts of the US have experienced extreme heat or extreme cold in the past year. Recent research projects that climate change will increase deaths from both types of weather, especially cold spells.
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Students in New York City prep for the SAT in 2016 at a Kaplan Test Prep center.
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Kelly Ochs Rosinger, Pennsylvania State University
Although proponents of making the SAT optional hoped it would expand college access for low-income and minority students, research shows that hasn't happened.
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Economy + Business
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Amy Hsin, City University of New York
While comprehensive immigration reform may be out of reach, giving immigrants who came to the US as children citizenship not only has broad political support but makes economic sense too.
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Jeffrey Berry, Tufts University
The foundation initially seemed well-suited for cleaning up Bill Clinton's legacy after the Monica Lewinsky scandal's ugliness. That's no longer true.
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From our international editions
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Peter Gibbs, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
There are currently few effective and non-invasive methods to screen for early stages of cancer. But scientists have now developed a new blood test that promises to detect eight different cancers.
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Heather Ohly, University of Central Lancashire; Nicola Lowe, University of Central Lancashire
Biofortification – enhancing the micronutrient concentration of staple crops – offers a sustainable solution to hidden hunger.
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John Filitz, University of the Witwatersrand
Seven years after ousting Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisians are back on the streets protesting the government’s new Finance Act.
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