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3 weeks ago | 
vox.com | Sean Collins |Coleman Lowndes
Proponents of public school pre-kindergarten programs generally argue that it has two benefits: that it helps children succeed in school, and that it is a reliable, free source of child care for working parents. There’s some debate about what the data say about that first point, but few argue with the latter. Despite that, not every school district offers pre-kindergarten — and some districts have even seen fierce battles to stop the expansion of pre-K programs.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
vox.com | Laura Bult |Coleman Lowndes
For anyone closely watching the 2024 election, scrutinizing the daily drop of polls has become the norm. Each new data point gives people cause to celebrate or despair depending on how their candidate is faring. But if you understand what polls are actually capable of telling you, it might dispel any desire you have for them to predict whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump will be the next president.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
vox.com | Coleman Lowndes
Coleman Lowndes is a lead producer who has covered history, culture, and photography since joining the Vox video team in 2017. The “dirty side” of a hurricane refers to the part of the storm that usually brings the highest impacts: the greatest winds, greatest tornado risk, and greatest storm surge and flooding. In the case of Atlantic hurricanes, which rotate counterclockwise, the “dirty side” is on the right — where the winds are moving in the same direction as the storm, combining their speeds.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
vox.com | Coleman Lowndes
In 1888, Eastman Kodak patented roll film and released the Kodak No. 1 box camera. The company’s business model — selling film, then processing and printing the photos taken on that film for their consumers — made photography available to the masses for the first time. Before then, photography was a complicated process requiring knowledge of chemistry and expertise working big, bulky equipment.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
vox.com | Coleman Lowndes |Laura Bult |Edward Vega
Coleman Lowndes is a lead producer who has covered history, culture, and photography since joining the Vox video team in 2017. Vice President Kamala Harris is potentially on the verge of becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
vox.com | Coleman Lowndes
Coleman Lowndes is a lead producer who has covered history, culture, and photography since joining the Vox video team in 2017. A key promise in Paris’s bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics was that its famous river, the Seine, would be cleaned up in time to host open water swimming events: the triathlon, paratriathlon, and marathon swimming.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
vox.com | Coleman Lowndes
Coleman Lowndes is a lead producer who has covered history, culture, and photography since joining the Vox video team in 2017. The fatal overdose epidemic in the US, which began in the ’90s with increased overdoses of prescription opioids, finally looked like it was starting to take a turn in 2018. But then the Covid pandemic hit, and amid increased isolation during lockdowns, fatal drug overdoses in the US skyrocketed, crossing 100,000 fatalities in a single year for the first time in 2021.
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May 15, 2024 | 
msn.com | Marie Cascione |Coleman Lowndes
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May 15, 2024 | 
vox.com | Marie Cascione |Coleman Lowndes
Over the past few years, most of the world has experienced some pretty intense inflation, with prices rising as much as 10 percent in a single year. In 2024, even though inflation rates have fallen to more manageable levels, prices are still way up and are very unlikely to come down. Which, understandably, continues to be a source of major stress for people all over the world. So why can’t prices just stay the same?
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
vox.com | Marie Cascione |Coleman Lowndes
A 2023 Federal Reserve survey found that a third of Americans say they don’t have the cash to cover a $500 emergency expense. So what happens if they need it? In this video, we compare six of the ways Americans say they get money when they don’t have it: credit cards, bank loans, borrowing from a friend or family member, payday loans, selling something, and going into overdraft. How difficult is each one to access? How does paying off each kind of debt work?
