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Chain restaurants, cotton prices, teachers vs. professors, salary transparency, & education majors

Jadrian Wooten

Oct 4, 2022

Hi, y’all! Here are 5 stories I learned about this week that you may also find interesting:

A look at the cities and states where chain restaurants dominate the food options for residents [The Washington Post]
Cotton prices are falling because of recession concerns and less-favorable exchange rates [The Wall Street Journal]
What Americans don’t understand about the difference between teachers and professors [The Atlantic]
California became the latest state to join a growing nationwide salary transparency movement [Bloomberg]
A dwindling number of new U.S. college graduates have a degree in education [Pew Research Center]

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