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Between 2012 and 2022, a national target of 4 million STEM degrees earned in the United States was surpassed by 16%, cumulatively totaling 4.65 STEM degrees (red line) over that decade. This exceeded ...

Last September, professors at elite American colleges finally began to admit what has been apparent for the last dozen years: Their students cannot read. No, they are not illiterate. But they cannot ...

There’s a lesson in here somewhere. Last March, Johnny Hilbrant Partridge, was a Back Bay fitness instructor just trying to make a few people laugh on Instagram. But between shifts at SoulCycle and ...

A radical feminist campaign to respond to gender inequality and violence against women by swearing off sex, dating, marriage and babies is gaining traction with young women around the world. The 4B ...

This article was written by Niall Smith, Senior Sustainable Investments Quantitative Researcher at Bloomberg. Markets appear to be pricing physical climate risk into the cost of capital for firms. Our ...

Seven-in-ten Americans now say the higher education system in the United States is generally going in the wrong direction – up from 56% who said this in 2020, according to a new Pew Research Center ...

Other peoples have risen. Other peoples have risen up to defend their rights, their dignity, and their democracies. In the past 50 years, they’ve done it in Poland, South Africa, Lebanon, South Korea, ...

It's the summer of 2000 and the Nasdaq 100 has just delivered a staggering 300% gain over three years, but a sudden spike in volatility during the spring signals that equity valuations are starting to ...

Private-market giants are pinning hopes that the next surge of growth will separate the best from the rest in an industry saturated by too many firms. “There are 19,000 private equity funds in the US.

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign to change how US ...