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Public schools spending more per pupil than they say they do, and other links from around the Web.

Men have borne the brunt of job losses in most developed countries.

A lower credit rating affects more than American pride. The bigger risk would be to the country’s ability to keep borrowing money.

How the economy affects pop music, and other links from around the Web.

More than a third of all tax returns filed for the 2008 tax year resulted in having no taxes owed.

In most of the last decade, there were around three million to five million math mistakes a year. But in years with federal fiscal stimulus efforts, math errors on returns soar, according to the I.R.S.

The government can keep track of waste in the American health care system by keeping better track on how doctors choose to treat their patients, an economist writes.

European leaders are only putting off disaster by talking up the steps Greece has taken to address its debt crisis, two economists write.

About half of the world’s countries currently have some sort of quota for women in their national legislatures, but women are still a small minority in nearly every national parliament around the globe.

For health-care reform to cut the deficit, it doesn’t need to undo the “doc fix” — the continued easing of Congressional curbs on Medicare payments to doctors. It just needs to improve upon the status quo.

Fake storefronts, and other links from around the Web.

Across the industrialized world, about 15.9 percent of children live in single-parent households. Most of those households are headed by women.

Different studies offer differ answers. A Harvard doctor tries to sort through the research.

Health and Social Security spending went up. Military spending went down. Only one of those two trends will continue.

A look at job shifts in individual states seems to prove that it did, an economist writes.