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1. Here’s how Somalia became a nearly cashless society.
By Tonny Onyulo in Quartz
2. We should get rid of algebra II.
By Dana Goldstein at Slate
3. America’s job comeback has skipped the public sector.
By Mitchell Hartman in Marketplace
4. Sexual assaults are grossly underreported. Here’s how to fix that.
By Sen. Jeanne Shaheen in the Guardian
5. Could ‘micro-apartments’ solve our housing crisis?
By Elizabeth Greenspan in the New Yorker

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