by Editors | Jun 27, 2014 | Education, Jobs and Growth
An African-American millennial on average needs to have an associate’s degree in order to have the same chance of being employed as a white person who only has a high school diploma. This fact is simply shocking. Only 74 percent of black high school graduates have...
by Editors | Jun 24, 2014 | Jobs and Growth
Almost 50 million Americans live below the governmental poverty line today – with 16 million among them being children. Roughly one in seven adults and one in five children suffer from the challenges of poverty. Two out of three Americans will live in poverty at some...
by Editors | Jun 23, 2014 | Jobs and Growth
Joanne, a food service worker at the federal Ronald Reagan Building near the White House, took time off from her job Monday to join fellow federal contractor employees at a protest outside the Smithsonian National Zoo. As she explained her monthly budget, it was clear...
by Editors | Jun 16, 2014 | Education
[fve]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7FbqmqdzDc[/fve] A petition drive that drew more than 300,000 signatures in support of a student loan refinancing bill was not enough to prevent a Senate filibuster of the bill, but supporters of the effort are continuing the...
by Editors | Jun 10, 2014 | Education
Massachusetts native Andy Wordell spent much of the 1990s getting her undergraduate and graduate degrees, with a dream of becoming a social worker. Two decades later, she's still paying the price for pursuing that dream – with $75,000 in student loan debt. That's why...
