By Lori Valigra • October 11, 2018 2:37 pm Only 70 percent of Maine’s workers earn enough to cover basic monthly expenses plus save a little for the future, a new study found. The other 30 percent who lack economic security include people of color and families headed [...]

By Lucia Graves What’s more, white women and Latina women, the populations most likely to be conservatively influenced by marriage, according to Kretschmer’s study, are often in traditional marriages with male breadwinners. (By contrast, more than 80% of black moms are the breadwinners, according to findings from [...]

By Emilia Benton Research showcases that when it comes to representation in the media, we've made progress, but we still have a long way to go. In 1978, the American Society of News Editors pledged to achieve equal representation between whites and people of color in major [...]

By Hannah Zedaker Lone Star College [System] should increase its outreach, especially in our African American and Latin [American] communities. We should recruit students in more mediums. This means, in addition to in-person recruitment at schools, we are doing more digitally to engage people in [...]

By Liz Blood Finances: 74 percent of survivors report staying with an abuser for economic reasons. (Institute for Women’s Policy Research) >Read more

By James Paterson Meanwhile, fewer institutions are offering child care services for students. In 2015, 49% of four-year public colleges offered child care, according to the Institute for Women's Policy Research, down from 55% in 2005. The share of community colleges with child care centers dropped from 53% in [...]