When schools make free meals more accessible, families can save money on groceries.
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Experts say making meals available to all students reduces the stigma associated with a free lunch.
The Bank of Canada announced a 0.5 per cent interest rate increase on April 13, 2022, in a move to quell Canada’s high inflation.
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While central banks did help mitigate a COVID-induced recession, they don’t have the power to solve our inflation problem.
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Old age poverty is looming for thousands of New Zealanders who are going into retirement without a house, without savings and facing high costs of living.
Anna May Wong appears alongside Akim Tamiroff in a promotional poster for the 1939 film ‘King of Chinatown.’
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The Asian American actress rose to fame in an era when white actors in yellowface were more likely to play Asian characters than Asian ones.
Over 50 per cent of working Americans continue to be dissatisfied with their ‘unjust’ incomes. They say it isn’t sufficient to meet their family expenses.
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Many Americans regularly report that they don’t make enough to support their families. Status plays a role — while money can’t buy happiness, it can bring status, which can lead to happiness.
Anna Sorokin, better known as Anna Delvey, during her trial in April 2019. Sorokin is the subject of a new Netflix miniseries.
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Despite the belief that people are deeply skeptical of strangers, study after study shows that humans are primed to trust one another.
Some Bitcoin evangelists see the currency as an answer to problems that plague society.
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With mantras, a mysterious founder and promises of societal salvation, there are echoes of religious traditions in the cryptocurrency.
Being better at math increases income but also ties satisfaction more closely to money.
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Compared to people who aren’t as good at math, people who are better at math are more happy when they have high incomes and less happy when they have lower incomes.
Student loan borrowers save a collective of $7.1 billion per month thanks to the loan pause.
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Student loan forgiveness doesn’t benefit the economy the way some advocates believe it would, an economist argues.
Even college-educated adults can still struggle with numbers.
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People who struggle with numbers are also likely to struggle in life, new research shows.
Going plant-based doesn’t have to mean spending more.
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We found that vegan and vegetarian diets cost a third less than current high-meat, high-dairy diets many people follow.
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The change point at which the happiness of most Australians no longer strongly depends on income has almost doubled from A$43,000 to A$74,000.
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For young people, super is the biggest single asset they have – so it’s worth knowing what the law says on how it could be split if a relationship ends.
Currently, the total outstanding federal student loan debt is $1.7 trillion.
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As federal student loan debt continues to rise, a number of scholars discuss how debt affects the nation’s college students, graduates and the economy as a whole.
It’s all legal tender.
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The country became the first to make bitcoin a formal part of its payments system, but whether it’ll catch on is another story.
In the United States, at least 6 million children live in a household where at least one person is food insecure.
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When kids have enough food to eat over the weekend, they do better in reading and math, a December 2020 study finds.
Already the Biden administration has forgiven nearly $3 billion of student loan debt from 113,000 borrowers.
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Student loan debt has long been considered a drag on the economy. But will canceling it actually do much to spur spending? An economist weighs in.
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Make 10,000 sheets of coloured dots and give them each a corresponding NFT, and what do you have?
Confederate currency had images of enslaved people, historical figures and mythical deities.
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Confederate paper money was a promise to exchange the bill for gold or silver, but only after the Confederacy won the war.
Recent college graduates owed an average of nearly $30,000 in student loans in 2019.
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Student loan debt can affect not only the financial health of recent grads but also their mental and emotional health. Three scholars weigh in on the greater costs student loans can have on borrowers.