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Student-loan payment freeze gives badly needed relief to struggling borrowers

Student-loan payment freeze gives badly needed relief to struggling borrowers

by Alicia Diaz | Jan 29, 2021 | Business & Tech, Featured

WASHINGTON – President Biden’s move to extend the freeze on student-loan payments until October has given borrowers badly needed financial cushion and the chance to spend the extra cash on other basic necessities. Struggling families or student borrowers coping with...
Biden freezes Trump’s last-minute visa rules

Biden freezes Trump’s last-minute visa rules

by Dalia Faheid | Jan 24, 2021 | Business & Tech, Featured

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has frozen for 60 days last-minute rules from the Trump administration that would allow only higher-wage foreign workers to be employed in the U.S. Under a final rule issued Jan. 8 by the Homeland Security Department, only the...
Paid for by the people: how Venmo, CashApp and GoFundMe are changing digital activism

Paid for by the people: how Venmo, CashApp and GoFundMe are changing digital activism

by Madison Muller | Nov 18, 2020 | Business & Tech, Featured, Social Justice

In the months since George Floyd’s death on May 25, activists have taken to social media to organize and mobilize the ensuing racial justice movement like never before. Accessibility and immediacy of apps like Instagram and Twitter have enabled people to connect...
Parler contributes to election misinformation and partisan divide

Parler contributes to election misinformation and partisan divide

by Alicia Diaz | Nov 11, 2020 | Business & Tech, Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON — As Twitter and Facebook cracked down on the spread of election misinformation in recent months, conservatives flocked to Parler, an app that has no regulations about posting misinformation. The app jumped to the number one spot on the most downloaded...
Black Entrepreneurs Build Community Prosperity and Fight Systemic Challenges

Black Entrepreneurs Build Community Prosperity and Fight Systemic Challenges

by Alicia Diaz | Nov 2, 2020 | Business & Tech, Featured

Iesha Malone wants her community to feel like home. So she has set out to create Rose Café, a bookstore and coffee shop to be stocked with books that elevate Black voices and empower the residents of her neighborhood in the southside of Chicago. “I can only be...
VIDEO: Economic Woes Predicted for Latin America

VIDEO: Economic Woes Predicted for Latin America

by Augusta Saraiva | Oct 27, 2020 | Business & Tech, Featured

While the global economy is expected to shrink by 4.4 percent this year, Latin American and Caribbean economies are likely to experience a GDP contraction nearly twice as high as that, according to the Western Hemisphere Economic Outlook report released last Thursday...
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