Money
What to Know About the Trump Admin’s New Student Loan Collection Policy
If you haven’t been paying your federal student loans, read this.
By Jacqui Germain
So What Is Kamala Harris Actually Going to Do on Student Debt?
More than 43 million Americans owe $1.7 trillion in student loans.
By Alí Bustamante
A Guaranteed Income Program Spared Me From Eviction
More cities should adopt programs like this.
By Chemareéa Biggs
Youth Climate Organizations Don’t Have the Funding We Need
Youth-led organizations receive only 0.76% of funding from the largest climate foundations.
By Sophia Suganuma, Hikaru Wakeel Hayakawa, and Sophia Kianni
I Paid Off $102K in Student Loans. Here’s What Life Has Been Like Since.
My feelings about money are still much more complicated than I expected.
By Mandy Velez
How Big Business Is Forcing Millions of Us Into Debt
These are the vampire businesses screwing us over.
By Malaika Jabali
Big Philanthropy Is a Scam — Here’s How
The world’s richest people aren’t going to save us.
By Rebekka Ayres
Private Equity Companies Are Taking Over the World
“What private equity does looks a lot like looting.”
By Jacqui Germain
4 Ways You Can Stop Funding the Climate Crisis
There are relatively simple ways you can move your finances away from fossil fuels.
By Danielle Renwick
Illinois Just Passed the Country's First Law Protecting Children of Influencers
Activists hope other states follow suit.
By Fortesa Latifi
Everything We Think About Ambition Needs to Change
We can redefine ambition outside of school and our jobs.
By Rainesford Stauffer
Billionaires Are Bad for the Planet — Here’s How
It literally costs the Earth to live like a billionaire.
By Rebekka Ayres
TikTok Helped Me Normalize Pay Transparency. Congress Wants To Ban It.
“How much do you make?” has always been a taboo question.
By Hannah Williams
What to Know About Neoliberalism
It’s a hard term to pin down because it shapes our lives in so many ways.
By John Patrick Leary
Some Students Are Selling Body Parts to Pay for Their Education
College students are using blood plasma money to pay down their student debt.
By Kathleen McLaughlin
Long COVID Is Keeping So Many Young People Out of Work
It’s hard to do your job when you’re exhausted, in pain, or emotionally depleted.
By Korin Miller
Medical Debt Is a Uniquely American Disaster
“Medical debt can happen to everybody, it’s nobody’s fault.”
By Lindsay Lee Wallace