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Professional caregivers do essential work but often earn low wages. FatCamera/E+ via Getty Images

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Low pay, high staff turnover and employee burnout took a toll on social service nonprofits during the COVID-19 pandemic − new research

Staff Writer - October 4, 2024

Negotiations to reduce drug prices can sometimes shift costs onto consumers. rudisill/iStock via Getty Images Plus

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Drug prices improved under Biden-Harris and Trump − but not for everyone, and not enough

All smiles as Fed Chair Jay Powell signals he’s confident he’s winning the inflation fight. AP Photo/Ben Curtis

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Fed slashes rates by a half-point – what that means for the economy and the presidential election

Banking regulations haven’t caught up with gift cards, which fraudsters are using to steal money from people in ways that are difficult to trace or reverse. The Conversation, CC BY-ND

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Gift card scams generate billions for fraudsters and industry as regulators fail to protect consumers − and how one 83-year-old fell into the ‘fear bubble’

Black women are among the demographics with the least time for college. Klaus Vedfelt/DigitalVision via Getty Images

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‘Time poverty’ can keep college students from graduating − especially if they have jobs or children to care for

Buying milk instead of an energy drink? You might be a good credit risk. d3sign/Getty Images

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No credit score? A grocery list could be the next best thing

Staff Writer - August 10, 2024

Personal Finance

Tipping etiquette and norms are in flux − here’s how you...

Staff Writer - August 18, 2023

Personal Finance

To fight financial illiteracy, we mapped our money system as waterworks

Staff Writer - August 3, 2023

Personal Finance

Why a handwritten will found in Aretha Franklin’s couch got R‑E‑S‑P‑E‑C‑T...

Staff Writer - July 16, 2023

Personal Finance

How do credit scores work? 2 finance professors explain how lenders...

Staff Writer - June 3, 2023

Personal Finance

The ethics of home ownership in an age of growing inequality

Staff Writer - February 21, 2023

Personal Finance

‘Checkout charity’ can increase a shopper’s anxiety, especially when asks are automated

Staff Writer - October 11, 2022

President Daniels, Dean Mung and Keith Krach

Personal Finance

President Daniels Stands Up for Chinese Student and Human Dignity

Staff Writer - January 14, 2022

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Biobots could one day be engineered to deliver drugs and clear up arterial plaque. Kriegman et al. 2020/PNAS, CC BY-SA

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Biobots arise from the cells of dead organisms − pushing the...

Staff Writer - September 15, 2024

Peter A Noble, University of Washington and Alex Pozhitkov, Irell & Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences at City of Hope

In Colorado, many people run, bike and climb in mountain lion habitat. DEA/ C. Dani I. Jeske/De Agostini via Getty Images

Colorado voters weigh a ban on hunting mountain lions as attitudes...

September 14, 2024

Sunflowers use tiny movements to follow the Sun’s path throughout the day. AP Photo/Charlie Riedel

Sunflowers make small moves to maximize their Sun exposure − physicists...

September 13, 2024

A white-shouldered bumblebee, Bombus appositus visits the flowers of a goldenbanner. Julian Resasco, CC BY-ND

I’ve visited the same Rocky Mountain subalpine meadow weekly for a...

September 10, 2024

The Subansiri Lower Hydroelectric Project, under construction, will be one of India’s largest hydropower dams. Nayan J. Nath, CC BY

India’s new mega-dam will roil lives downstream with wild swings in...

September 4, 2024