By Kat Londsdorf Ever heard that term? It's used for a student who is also a parent, and there are nearly 5 million of them in colleges around the country. That's over a quarter of [...]

By Matt Krupnick Forty percent of U.S. university and college undergraduate and graduate students are, like Nalesnik, 25 and older, according to  U.S. Education Department data . Even among undergraduates alone, the figure is  higher [...]

By Mary Babic and Barbara Gault The recent campaign trained a spotlight on the economic anxiety that plagues millions of workers who have seen their wages steadily erode. The surprising reality is that the majority [...]

More than one-quarter of all employed working women are in one of 22 jobs that are growing fast, pay less than $15 an hour and are female-dominated, according to a report released Wednesday by the [...]

By Mary Babic and Barbara Gault A recent study from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research and Oxfam America explores this gender divide and identifies a subset of low-wage women’s jobs. The jobs meet four [...]

By Xochitl Oseguera and Noreen Farrell Today we mark Latina Equal Pay Day, which represents how far into 2016 Latinas working full time must work to earn the same wages made by white men who worked full [...]