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This year, colleges must choose between fast financial aid offers, or accurate ones
Colleges don’t yet trust the FAFSA data the U.S. Education Department is sending them, but there’s pressure to get aid offers out to students as soon as possible.
Fish out of water story ends with 77,000 young salmon in the wrong creek
The spring chinook salmon is federally listed as a threatened species in the Snake River.
You’ll need more than $100,000 in income to afford a typical home, studies show
Two recent studies suggest that prospective homeowners will have to earn more than $100,000 annually to afford a typical home in much of the U.S.
After years of trying, the US government may finally mandate safer table saws
After years of false starts, the Consumer Product Safety Commission looks poised to mandate a blade safety brake on all new table saws sold in the United States.
How anti-vaccine activists and the far right are trying to build a parallel economy
Due to fears of “cancellation,” alternative technology and financial platforms are being built for the so-called freedom economy by figures on the far right, including those with antisemitic beliefs.