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    2025.07.10 Jay Turner on clean energy industry Politico

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    The new bill is “a major blow to the future of the clean energy industry in the U.S.,” said environmental studies professor Jay Turner, who maintains a database of U.S. battery and EV investments.

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    2025.07.10 Georgia Pellegrini '03 receives Daytime Emmy Award Nomination The Hollywood Reporter

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    Georgia Pellegrini '03 receives a 2025 Daytime Emmy Award Nomination for her show “Modern Pioneering with Georgia Pellegrini.”

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    2025.07.09 Beth Stewart '78 on board of directors Newsweek

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    Trewstar founder Beth Stewart ’78 may have been an unlikely director at the time, but her time at Goldman Sachs prepared her for the opportunity. Now she’s opening the door for others.

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    2025.07.09 Phillip Levine estimation on universities paying endowment tax Financial Times

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    Economist Phillip Levine estimated that just 16 universities will pay the increased endowment tax, with Harvard taking the greatest hit at $267 million USD a year based on past investment earnings.

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    2025.07.08 Phillip Levine on U.S. birth rate NPR

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    Phillip Levine discusses the fact that the U.S. birth rate is falling fast. For a population to remain stable, women, on average, have to have 2.1 kids. In the U.S., that number is 1.6, and dropping.

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    2025.07.08 Phillip Levine on tuition hikes CNBC

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    Tuition hikes will follow the higher endowment tax. “We’re already seeing evidence that institutions are raising their sticker prices more than they have been in the past,” Phillip Levine told CNBC.

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    2025.07.08 Phillip Levine on endowment tax The Chronicle of Higher Education

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    “Some even more punitive proposals were passed over, but this will still sting,” writes economist Phillip Levine for The Chronicle. "Yes, your head should be spinning trying to make sense of it all."

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    2025.07.07 Phillip Levine on college endowments The Nation

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    “Highly endowed colleges are the least expensive college options for [low income] students,” economist Phillip Levine told The Nation. “They are able to do that because of their large endowments.”

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    2025.07.07 Kellie Carter Jackson on Trump's erasure of Black historical figures WBUR

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    Since Trump’s inauguration, the government has scrubbed information about Black historical figures and other minorities from a number of its websites. Kellie Carter Jackson unpacks why.