The value of a college education is increasingly scrutinized by a public weary of debt and questioning its real-world application. However, for many students from low-income backgrounds, a college ...

Although poverty is one of the most pressing issues of our time, it is rarely addressed in the DEI space. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 37.9 million people and 10.8 million children were in ...

Teach for America offers an array of voluntary, employee-run groups for staff to meet and learn from colleagues who share a common background. There are groups for parents, African-American managers, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about Black and neurodivergent identity in the workplace. There are millions of people in poverty in the United States.

To a fully-packed room in which audience members filled every seat, sat on the ground in rows and stood in lines in the back, Harvard University Prof. Anthony Jack, education, introduced his research ...

Now in its third year, the graduate division Promise Fellowship Program at UC Santa Barbara provides first-generation college students from low-income households with financial support to pursue ...

Western Massachusetts is currently in what’s known as a "seller’s market," where available housing is scarce, so sellers can keep rents high and have more choice in tenants. Although people who can’t ...

A Keene State College student studies at a table along Appian Way in the fall of 2021. Credit: HANNAH SCHROEDER—The Keene Sentinel, file Keene State College is guaranteeing admission for eligible ...

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With costs continually on the rise and little financial support to hand, low-income background artists increasingly can't afford to come to the Fringe. Comedian Holly Spillar speaks for and to the ...