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Catching Our Eye
• What’s a college student to do? The Associated Press reports, “College students are in search of ‘AI-proof’ majors. But no one knows what they are.”
Today’s college students say that picking a major that’s “AI-proof” feels like shooting at a moving target as they prepare for a job market that could be fundamentally different by the time they graduate.
As a result, many are reconsidering their career paths. About 70% of college students see AI as a threat to their job prospects, according to a 2025 poll by the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School, while recent Gallup polling finds U.S. workers are increasingly concerned about being replaced by new technologies.
• Ohio farmers. Cleveland.com’s Allison Hartzell reports, “Iran war hits Ohio farmers with rising fertilizer, fuel costs.”
The war in Iran is hitting Ohio farms, adding to financial pressure to an already strained agricultural community.
Farmers were already challenged, hit hard by trade tensions with China sparked by President Donald Trump’s tariffs. But the war has intensified those challenges, driving up the price of fuel and fertilizer… Ultimately, the consequences will also hit American consumers in the form of higher prices at the market.
• The Civil Rights era dismantled. Columnist Ray Marcano writes in the Columbus Dispatch, “The ‘reverse racism’ dog whistle took out Civil Rights — it was a long game.”
Since 1965, some powerful conservatives — at the time, southern Democrats — have been plotting to cripple the Voting Rights Act under the guise that it’s reverse racism that harms white people.
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