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| Jun 30, 2026 | I’ve lived the American Dream but as the country turns 250 I’m watching it die | The American Dream is being snatched away by regressive economic policies and predatory capitalist practices that prioritise the interests of the ultra-wealthy over the well-being of the median American, says Lewis Liu
I am the quintessenti... |
| Jun 18, 2026 | These families have been in business for 100 years—they say the American Dream isn’t what it used to be | When Starr Hutchings Purdue’s great-grandfather opened a funeral home in Macon, Georgia, in 1910, undertaking was a reliable way for Black Americans to make a living. Even the deceased were segregated.
Owning a business enabled independence... |
| Oct 29, 2025 | Foundation for Social Connection Unveils New Resource to Guide Strategic Investment in Structural Social Capital | Roadmap supports local governments on how to harness community partnerships to boost trust, social connection, and economic mobility.
Communities thrive when people connect across differences, trust one another, and work together. This road... |
| May 29, 2025 | In the battle between Trump and Harvard, trade schools may be an unlikely winner | Vocational training and certificate programs could reap the benefits of a high-stakes battle between Harvard University and the White House.
President Donald Trump said on Monday he is considering taking grant money from Harvard and giving ... |
| Apr 29, 2024 | Where Atlanta kids have the most — and least — opportunity | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
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A new analysis illustrates how metro areas like Atlanta can be economic powerhouses while significant childhood opportunity gaps remain in their communit... |
| Apr 25, 2024 | UNC system could bring back testing requirements for some students | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
The UNC system looks likely to raise its minimum requirements for admissions at the state's 17 public universities — and allow individual campuses to bring back standardized testing requirements.
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| Mar 20, 2024 | Editorials | Editorial: Why it’s smart for universities to bring back the SAT requirement | The SAT and ACT are making a small but important comeback after the tests were widely dropped as a requirement for college applications during the pandemic.
Most schools went test-optional, meaning students could submit scores if they wante... |
| Mar 18, 2024 | Private California colleges could face legacy admissions penalty | Private colleges and universities in California could be penalized for continuing use of legacy admissions under a bill in the state Legislature.
Why it matters: The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to strike down race-conscious admissions led... |
| Feb 6, 2024 | SATs are back. Dartmouth is the first Ivy League to reverse course after pledging to remove standardized test requirement. | Education SATs are back. Dartmouth is the first Ivy League to reverse course after pledging to remove standardized test requirement.
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| Aug 7, 2023 | Report: Ultra-wealthy students nearly three times as likely to get into Georgetown | Children from ultra-wealthy families are 2.9 times more likely to be accepted into Georgetown University compared to others with comparable test scores.
That's according to a new paper from a group of Harvard economists who study inequality... |
| Jul 27, 2023 | An Ivy League degree won't boost your salary much compared to a good state school, a study finds. You're just more likely to have an elite-sounding job. | Paul Marotta/Getty
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A new study finds that an Ivy League degree doesn't meaningfully increase a graduate's future income compared to attending a good state school.
But it can boost one's chances of working for an elite employer, w... |
| Jul 26, 2023 | Kids of the 1% are twice as likely to get into 'Ivy Plus' colleges, even when their grades are no better than anyone else's | Kids of the 1% are twice as likely to get into 'Ivy Plus' colleges, even when their grades are no better than anyone else's. Charles Krupa/AP
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A new study shows kids of the top 1% are over twice as likely to be admitted to Ivy Plu... |
| Jul 25, 2023 | Elite colleges favor students from ultra rich families, study says | A new study suggests elite colleges have prioritized accepting applicants from ultra wealthy families.
Why it matters: While the Supreme Court struck down race-based admissions, colleges can still give preference to applicants based on lega... |
| Jul 25, 2023 | Ultra-wealthy students twice as likely to get into Ivy League schools, report finds | Children from ultra-wealthy families are more than twice as likely to gain admission to Ivy League schools compared to others with comparable test scores, finds a widely shared new working paper from a group of Harvard economists who study ... |
| Jul 24, 2023 | How The Admission Practices Of Elite Colleges Perpetuate The Advantages Of The Wealthy | A new study quantifies the college admission advantages of students from wealthy families. getty |
| Jul 24, 2023 | Ivy colleges favor rich kids for admission, while middle-class students face obstacles, study finds | Admission to an Ivy League college or a similarly elite institution like MIT is often seen as a golden ticket offering entry into academic institutions that have collectively produced more than 4 in 10 U.S. presidents and 1 in 8 CEOs of For... |
| May 5, 2023 | New York Times Ranks Gardner-Webb No. 1 in Campus Safety, No. 2 in Affordability & No. 7 in N.C. for Economic Mobility | New York Times rankings for Gardner-Webb University
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The editors of The New York Times ranks Gardner-Webb University No. 1 in Campus Safety and No. 7 for economic mobility am... |
| Apr 14, 2023 | As The Future Of Work Unfolds, Policy Innovator Nathalie Gazzaneo Is Steering Ahead With A Focus On Collaboration, Equity, And Humanity | Noah Miller, Tech Times 14 April 2023, 11:04 am
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Emerging technologies, demand for new skills, tight job markets, and other factors are drastically changing how people think about and participate in the workforce.... |
| Mar 28, 2023 | The New York Times Launches A Build-Your-Own College Ranking Tool | A new tool designed by the New York Times enables students and their families to weight the ... [+] importance of ten criteria as they search for the colleges that best suit their unique interests:getty |
| Oct 13, 2022 | America's best tool to fight inflation and prevent recessions is facing a dangerous death spiral | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Aug 24, 2022 | Why Who You Know Matters In Getting Ahead — And How Study Body Diversity Can Help | They used to say it’s not what you know but who you know that helps you to get ahead. |
| Jun 2, 2022 | How The National Education Equity Lab Is Closing The College Opportunity Gap | Leslie Cornfeld, founder and CEO of The National Education Equity Lab, whose model of instilling a ... [+] college-going culture in Title I high schools is showing great promise. Leslie Cornfeld |
| Jul 16, 2021 | What do two million accounts tell us about the impact of Covid-19 on small businesses? | James Hurley, Sudipto Karmakar, Elena Markoska, Eryk Walczak and Danny Walker
This post is the second of a series of posts about the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on business activity.
Covid-19 led to a sharp reduction in economic activi... |
| Apr 30, 2021 | America is the land of unequal opportunity. These 13 maps show how class, education, and health inequities all intersect — with nonwhite, rural areas hit especially hard. | Inequities in America literally overlap.
Disparities in health, income, education — they all map onto the same areas.
Many of the hardest-hit areas are nonwhite and rural. See more stories on Insider's business page.
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| Mar 20, 2021 | San Diego’s economy was rocked in ’20. But could it have been worse? | San Diego County’s first pandemic year cost the economy up to $10 billion.
Unemployment hit levels not seen in generations and the tourism industry, one of the region’s biggest employers, was decimated.
But, a new report on 2020 from the Sa... |
| Mar 17, 2021 | Tracking economic activity in response to the COVID-19 crisis using night lights – The case of Morocco | Essential to effective policy responses to the pandemic are not just accurate information on the spread of COVID-19 itself, but also real-time data on the associated economic impacts.Such data, however, is not always available from traditio... |
| Feb 10, 2021 | Pace University Announces the Barry M. and Jackie Gosin Center for Equity and Inclusion | The Barry M. and Jackie Gosin Center for Equity and Inclusion launches with the overarching goal of increasing opportunities for underrepresented groups and fostering their success during the job placement process and throughout their caree... |
| Feb 8, 2021 | U.S. Billionaires Could Give $3,400 Stimulus Checks To 331 Million Americans Using Only Their Increase In Wealth Since March 2020 | With their $1.1 trillion increase in wealth since March, America's 660 billionaires could give every ... [+] one of the 331 million people in the United States a $3,400 stimulus check and still be billionaires,” tweeted former U.S. Labor Se... |
| Feb 3, 2021 | Some GOP senators want a $50,000 income cutoff for a fresh wave of stimulus checks. That may exclude at least 29 million families who would get one under the Biden relief plan. | Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) speaks with Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) in the Capitol. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images
Millions could be left out of receiving a stimulus check under the GOP plan compared to the Biden relief plan... |
| Feb 1, 2021 | New Research Supports Limiting $1,400 Stimulus Checks To Those Earning Under $75,000 | US President Joe Biden speaks on climate change, creating jobs, and restoring scientific integrity ... [+] before signing executive orders in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC on January 27, 2021. (Photo by MANDEL N... |
| Jan 26, 2021 | Here’s How Congress Could Better Target A New Round of Pandemic Relief Payments | WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 25: President Joe Biden speaks after signing an executive order related to ... [+] American manufacturing. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)Getty Images |
| Dec 29, 2020 | UNICEF Magic Box Commended For Inspiring Children To Be Social Innovators | A child is weighed at a community health post in Sidorejo village, Central Java province, Indonesia. Indonesia is one of ten UNICEF program countries where the Magic Box platform is being used to assess the effects of containment measures. ... |
| Dec 21, 2020 | 'Better than nothing'- the U.S. $900 billion COVID-19 stimulus helps but underwhelms | By Ann Saphir, Jonnelle Marte
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The $900 billion pandemic aid package expected to win Congressional approval on Monday will deliver support to a recession-ravaged economy slowing under a deadly coronavirus surge, and set it up for ... |
| Sep 24, 2020 | Students Of Color Are Missing Out On STEM Opportunities, So The Planet Is Missing Out On Their Brilliance. Here's How We Finally Achieve Equity In High School STEM | Students of color do better when taught by teachers of color, at no cost to their white classmates. ... [+] Attract and retain more people of color into the STEM teaching profession. getty |
| Sep 18, 2020 | Isabel Schnabel: Unequal scars – distributional consequences of the pandemic | SPEECH Unequal scars - distributional consequences of the pandemic Speech by Isabel Schnabel, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the panel discussion 'Verteilung der Lasten der Pandemie' ('Sharing the burden of the pandemic'), Deu... |
| Aug 31, 2020 | Covid-19 briefing: heterogeneous impacts of the pandemic | Andrea Šiško
The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly spawned a literature analysing its impact on macroeconomic aggregates. But there's also been work that seeks to look at heterogeneity of impacts across industries, households and individuals. T... |
| Aug 6, 2020 | The Future of Retail Payments in the United States | It is a pleasure to be here today with Esther George and Ken Montgomery to talk about the future of America's retail payment system. Recognizing that the retail payment infrastructure touches every American, a year ago, the Federal Reserve ... |
| Jul 24, 2020 | Unemployment Benefits, Stimulus Checks, And State And City Aid Needed As Economy Slows | New economic data show a growing slowdown, underscoring the need for another stimulus package. But intra-party fights among Republican Senators regarding deficit spending are slowing the legislation, and will make the overall bill smaller t... |
| Jul 14, 2020 | Expect $600 Federal Unemployment Checks Slashed To $400 Or Less | Signals from key officials, especially Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, point to a continuation of ... [+] federal unemployment checks, but at a much lower rate than $600 per week; most likely in the range of $300 to $400 per week.Getty |
| Jul 8, 2020 | 26 simple charts to show friends and family who aren't convinced racism is still a problem in America | Protesters gather in Harlem to protest the recent death of George Floyd on May 30, 2020 in New York City. David 'Dee' Delgado/Getty Images
The United States saw nationwide protests for weeks in 2020 over the death of George Floyd in police ... |
| Jul 7, 2020 | Economic Recovery Insights From Raj Chetty’s New Data Sources Drive New Profits | Covid-19 sunk economy primarily because of high-income people cutting back on in-person services. That’s a conclusion from Opportunity Insights’ research on spending and employment, which was recently presented by economist Raj Chetty. |
| Jul 6, 2020 | Do Americans Even Need A Second Stimulus Check? | Do Americans need a second stimulus check? They probably needed it even before the coronavirus ... [+] pandemic hit.Getty |
| Jul 1, 2020 | Giving people free money has kept 12 million people out of poverty and given the economy a crucial boost | $100 bill notes.Xinhua/Liu Jie via Getty Images
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| Jun 26, 2020 | Additional $600 In Unemployment Benefits Needed To Help Economy | Without additional unemployment insurance and other government aid, the labor market and job creation are too weak for economic recovery. But Congress has not reauthorized the $600 weekly addition to benefits. |
| Jun 23, 2020 | Storm Or Sunshine, Trust Remains A Secret Weapon For Leaders | Photo by Alex Rosario on Unsplash |
| Jun 17, 2020 | Rich Americans slashed spending amid coronavirus, hurting poor workers | Sign up for our special edition newsletter to get a daily update on the coronavirus pandemic.
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| A Harvard education costs over $82,000 a year—here’s how much students actually pay | Going to an Ivy League institution like Harvard University can pay off in the long run.
Former Harvard students who received federal aid command a median salary of $95,114 a decade after beginning college, according to the Department of Edu... |
| People feel financially worse off than their parents—but say their kids will be better off | One indicator many people use to determine how well they’re doing in life is to compare themselves with their parents.
After all, your parents’ socioeconomic situation can be pretty prescriptive of how you’ll fare in life. To do better than... |
| Is an Ivy League degree worth it? Report finds advantages beyond future earnings | A recent study compared the estimated future income of waitlisted students who ultimately attended Ivy League schools with those who went to public universities instead.
Leadership positions are disproportionately held by graduates of a few... |
| Fewer people may qualify for the $1,400 stimulus payments. Here’s why | After promising another round of stimulus payments worth $1,400 to many Americans, President Joe Biden has reportedly signaled that he is open to restricting the number of people who would receive them, based on their income.
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| Why some families will pay $500,000 for Ivy League admissions consulting: ‘It’s worth the investment’ | To get a leg up in the competitive world of college admissions, there’s almost no limit to what some families will spend on private consultants for their children.
At Command Education in New York, for example, families pay $120,000 a year ... |
| Achieving the ‘American dream?’ A lot of it depends on where you grow up | Research from economists at Brown University, Harvard University and the U.S. Census Bureau shows that the numerous variables that define neighborhoods all have lasting impacts on children’s future income.
The findings were presented earlie... |
| Education Department opens investigation into Harvard’s legacy admissions | Opening a new front in legal battles over college admissions, the U.S. Department of Education has launched a civil rights investigation into Harvard University’s policies on legacy admissions.
Top colleges’ preferential treatment of childr... |
| Stanford University costs over $92,000 a year—how much students actually pay, according to income level | For many college students, attending a prestigious Ivy League school is a dream come true.
But many commentators and admissions experts now have a slightly wider view of schools that are on par with the Ivy League. These days, several colle... |
