Demetra Aposporos

Black and Hispanic student loan borrowers are more likely to have difficulty repaying their loans than their White peers and are also more likely to face barriers to completing degrees. This, coupled with other educational and economic barriers grounded in structural, historic, and disparate practices in the housing and labor markets, can make payments more challenging and lead to loan default.

On a map they may appear as a collection of remote and rocky outcrops at the bottom of the world, but up close South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands are teeming with wildlife, as are the frigid and nutrient-dense southern Atlantic Ocean waters surrounding them.

An exhibition featuring work from more than two dozen contemporary artists of Korean descent, “The Shape of Time: Korean Art After 1989,” explores pieces from a generation—born between 1960 and 1986—who lived through South Korea’s transition from an authoritarian regime to current democratic freedoms. The art uses an array of mediums such as painting, ceramics, embroidery, and fiber to explore how the past shapes the present and future, and also touches on complex cultural experiences.

A broad majority of Americans say they’re being asked to tip service workers more frequently than in the past. Around 7 in 10 U.S. adults (72%) say tipping is expected in more places today than it was five years ago, a finding that tracks with anecdotal reporting and has even been dubbed “tipflation.” But even as Americans say they’re being asked to tip more often, relatively few have a great deal of confidence about when and how to do so. Only about a third say it’s extremely or very easy to kn…

The growing threat and cost of wildfires—which continue to make the news, with fires recently ravaging California and Maui—prompted Congress to create the Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission in 2021. In September the commission released a report with scores of recommendations meant to buffer the financial, environmental, and public health fallout associated with these fires.

The majestic green pine trees of Canada’s boreal forest stretch as far as the eye can see, covering over a billion acres from the Yukon in the west to the shores of Newfoundland and Labrador in the east.

The Atlantic bluefin tuna may grow to the size of a small car, swim nearly as fast as one, and eat everything in its path, but this apex predator is still vulnerable to mightier forces.

The William T. Grant Foundation, Pew’s partner in connecting evidence to policy and practice, has a long history of supporting science that addresses societal needs.

Some Philadelphia residents have a knotty problem: The title to their home is “tangled,” meaning the property’s deed carries someone else’s name, perhaps that of a deceased parent or other relative.

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