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Week’s Best: Social Security’s Math Problem

The primary trust fund that supports Social Security is expected to run out of money in 2033. If Congress doesn’t adjust the program to improve its solvency, recipients will have their benefits cut by ...
Columbus Dispatch

Math problem. We're falling behind. Everyone should be scared | Opinion

You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...
Forbes

Meet The Stanford Dropout Building An AI To Solve Math’s Hardest Problems—And Create Harder Ones

24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...
The New York Times

Moon Duchin on the ‘Mathematical Quagmire’ of Gerrymandering

Why the challenge of truly representative democracy is so complex. Moon Duchin, who leads the University of Chicago’s Data and Democracy Research Initiative, explores how math can help solve ...