Girls to Rebuild Refrigerators into Electric Cars for Race Contest (Slate) – Thirty-one aspiring female inventors will compete to build and race electric cars created from old refrigerators as part of a new initiative launched by utility company ComEd.
New College Data Give Fuller Picture of Graduation Rates – And Show Challenges (The Washington Post) – Dozens of public universities across the country, including three in Maryland, report that fewer than half of their full-time freshmen in 2007 earned bachelor’s degrees after six years at those schools or after switching to other schools.
Ohio Tuition Going Up at 11 Colleges (The Columbus Dispatch) – Eleven of the 13 traditional, four-year public universities are raising tuition for next school year, but in most cases, growth will be about even with the inflation rate.
States With Higher Minimum Wage Gain More Jobs (USA Today) – The 13 states that raised their minimum wages at the beginning of this year are adding jobs at a faster pace than those that did not, providing some counter-intuitive fuel to the debate over what impact a higher minimum has on hiring trends.
Young and Out of Work: Millennials Struggle with High Unemployment Rate (Newark Advocate) – For people ages 18 to 29 nationwide, the June unemployment rate was 10.5 percent, according to the millennial jobs report released by Generation Opportunity, a Washington, D.C.-based youth advocacy organization.
