💬 Quoted… “We can’t grow faster.”

• Top oil company executives rejected accusations of price-gouging at a six-hour House hearing yesterday; average US prices at the pump hit a record $4.32 per gallon last month and have fallen 3% since then, while crude prices have dropped 20+% from recent highs.

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🏫 Stats of the Day: 46% of students in Los Angeles Unified have been chronically absent this year (i.e., missed at least 9% of classes), according to the LA Times.

• In NYC that figure is 40%, up from 26% in 2018-2019, per the NY Post.

🤯 Did You Know?... In 1982, some 43% of fathers said they had never changed a diaper; by 2000, that number was down to 3%.

📖 Worth a Read: The Remarkable Brain of a Carpet Cleaner Who Speaks 24 Languages → (SFGate)