Sublime

There's this ever-present myth that we've slashed funding for public education in the US over the last 40 years, but meanwhile we've tripled it in terms of cost per student — and results have been flat: a massive price increase with no positive change to quality.

Census tracts are tiny, hyper-local designations, with populations between 1,200 and 8,000 each; mine is only 0.2 square miles in area.