The COVID-19 pandemic is having a striking, paradoxical impact on low-income and minority college students. At least 30% of Black, Latino and Asian American students say the pandemic has increased their perceived value of ...
Education
Aug 05, 2020
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After a significant increase in April, the Swedish public's confidence in government officials is now back at the same level as it was in March. Swedish Television (SVT) remains the media channel that most Swedes access for ...
Social Sciences
Jun 18, 2020
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The COVID-19 pandemic has created a crisis across higher education, for both institutions and learners. But these new challenges are coming to rest on old inequalities that kept many low and middle-income Americans from attending ...
Education
May 27, 2020
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At least half of American families have been giving money to charity every year—but that fraction had been declining prior to the global pandemic.
Social Sciences
May 07, 2020
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Neighbor peer pressure may be linked to increases in yard fertilization and irrigation across several distinct climate regions of the US, according to a study published November 13, 2019 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE ...
Environment
Nov 13, 2019
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Family structure in America is sharply divided by class and race.
Social Sciences
Sep 19, 2019
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Too much inequality in society can result in a damaging lack of support for public goods and services, which could disadvantage the rich as well as the poor, according to new research from the University of Exeter Business ...
Social Sciences
Aug 14, 2019
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Humanity faces unprecedented environmental challenges. Nowhere are the challenges greater than in Africa, the second most populous continent. Over the next century Africa will replace Asia as the driver of global population ...
Environment
Aug 02, 2019
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As of February 2019, student debt in the United States was more than $1.5 trillion. The rapid growth of America's student debt is a cause for concern for numerous observers, who fear the outbreak of a financial crisis.
Economics & Business
Jun 11, 2019
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One of the most spectacular facts of the last two centuries of economic history is the exponential growth in GDP per capita in most of the world. Figure 1 shows the rise (and the difference) in living standards for five countries ...
Economics & Business
May 31, 2019
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