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1. Don’t hire rock star employees.
By Peter Vanham at the World Economic Forum
2. How to keep your grown kids in your life.
By Susan Bonifant in the Washington Post
3. What will we do with millions of used electric car batteries? Give them a second life.
By Fred Lambert in Electrek
4. Only a third of refugees live in camps. Here’s a strategy for serving the millions living in cities.
By Benjamin Edwards and Loren Landau at the Urban Institute
5. Everybody likes infrastructure. Here are some projects that will actually move America forward.
By Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry in the Week
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