Significant Digits For Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Dozens of families A email Wednesday, July 31, 2019 By Oliver Roeder You're reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. Dozens of families At least dozens of wealthy families in suburban Chicago are ceding the legal guardianship of their college-bound children to "a friend, aunt, cousin or grandparent" so that these children can call themselves financially independent and thereby qualify for federal and state financial aid. "It's a scam," the director of undergraduate admissions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign told ProPublica. [ ProPublica ] 200 million "bathroom miniatures" By 2021, InterContinental Hotels Group, the owner of Holiday Inn, plans to swap out the 200 million "bathroom miniatures" — those little shampoos and so forth — that it uses in its 843,000 guest rooms each year in favor of bulk-size amenities in an environmentally-minded eff...
