As the U.S. sorts through election results, some question the usefulness of categorizing voters as ‘Latino’ One major takeaway from the presidential election even before all the votes have been tallied: Despite pundits’ and pollsters’ discussion of the “Latino vote” or “Hispanic vote” — it was never a unified block for one candidate to win. The U.S. Census Bureau defines a Hispanic or Latino person as someone of “Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish...

The Value Gap ‘One of the things that happens is in the neoliberal era, in the 1970s, is that banking became technical and not political; it also became really complicated’ The racial wealth gap — or the staggering gulf in wealth between Black and white households — has persisted for centuries. The median wealth of Black families in 2019 was $24,100, compared to $188,200 for white families, according to the Federal Reserve. In other words, the typical Black family holds about 13% of the...

Last fall, when Breanna Brown wanted to talk to her fellow students about voting, the then-freshman at Wayne State University would walk into a lecture hall (with the professor’s permission) and extol the virtues of civic participation before class started. In between classes, she and other organizers would “table” in highly trafficked areas, and guide students as they filled out a voter registration form on a friend’s computer. “We would have everybody touching that laptop,” Brown said....

The shift to remote learning or, in some cases, a scaled back in-person experience at colleges and universities amid the coronavirus pandemic, has put a renewed focus on a question students and families have long asked about college education: What is the value I’ll glean from my degree? New research from Georgetown University’s Center for Education and the Workforce finds that it depends, but not necessarily on the factors one might expect. Degrees from the most prestigious colleges don’t...

Student-loan companies have been accused of not doing enough to help borrowers afford payments Over four years during which he lived in a homeless shelter for a period and sometimes struggled to buy basic necessities, Miguel Rivera sent more than $1,000 to the student loan company Navient NAVI, +1.52%. The money didn’t go toward paying down his more than $100,000 in student-loan debt. Rivera sent it in an attempt to cover a $23.39 late fee. But the student-loan servicer applied the $1,000...