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Traffic death hot spots? Hidden chronic illness?

Sy Boles

Harvard Staff Writer

February 13, 2025 1 min read

How closely did you follow the Gazette this week? Take our quiz to find out.

A deep dive into the Department of Education. A change to what drives inequality in prison admissions in the U.S. What do you remember from this week in the Gazette?

1. Traffic fatalities jumped by 25 percent in the past decade. What tends to be the speed limit in areas of higher rates of traffic deaths?

10-25 miles per hour

35-45 miles per hour

55-70 miles per hour

Over 75 miles per hour

2. Amid high-profile calls to eliminate the federal Department of Education, Professor Martin West says most people only have a vague understanding of what the department actually does. Which of the following does the 45-year-old Cabinet-level department do?

Distribute Pell grants and K-12 education funding

Manage the Federal Student Loan Program

Ensure that all schools that receive federal funds follow federal civil rights laws

Gather official statistics on education

All of the above

3. The toll of chronic illness on U.S. workers may be heavier than previously thought. Of the 58 percent of all U.S. employees who have physical chronic health conditions, what share have kept their condition from their employers?

15 percent

40 percent

60 percent

75 percent

4. Speaking of the workplace, 40 percent of respondents in a Harvard Business School study said they’d take a 5 percent or greater pay cut if it meant they could work remotely. Workers in which industries were most likely to be willing to make the trade?

Construction, manufacturing, and oil/gas

Retail, hospitality, and entertainment

Professional

Health and education

5. It may be time to update our picture of inequality in the criminal justice system. As prison admission rates for Black Americans fall, what may now be a more salient form of inequality impacting incarceration rates?

Gender, with more women incarcerated than ever before

Income, with incarceration rates increasing for lower-income people of all races

Education, with incarceration rates increasing for white Americans with no college education