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By ANNIE MA - Associated Press Gabrielle Perry, a 29-year-old epidemiologist in New Orleans, expects $20,000 of her $135,000 student loan debt to be wiped out under the plan announced this week by…

Providence’s mayor proposed spending $10 million in federal coronavirus pandemic aid on financial literacy and homeownership, workforce training, small business development and other programs recently recommended by the…

By KAT STAFFORD - Associated Press The Movement for Black Lives launched a new climate change initiative Thursday, uniting more than 200 Black environmental leaders and organizations nationwide who have…

By ALMAZ ABEDJE - Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — For Jonathan Peter Jackson, a direct relative of two prominent members of the Black Panther Party, revolutionary thought and family history have…

By COLLIN BINKLEY, SEUNG MIN KIM and CHRIS MEGERIAN - Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 40 million Americans could see their student loan debt reduced — and in many cases eliminated — under…

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)Daniel R. Weinberger, Johns Hopkins University(THE CONVERSATION) Could your medical treatment one day be…

By THALIA BEATY - Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — When the Ford Foundation took the unprecedented step in June 2020 of issuing $1 billion in debt to help stabilize other nonprofits, it delighted…

By EDEN STIFFMAN of The Chronicle of Philanthropy - Chronicle of Philanthropy FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Isaiah Oliver carefully parks his car in the crumbling parking lot of North Flint’s Greater Holy Temple…

By COLLIN BINKLEY - AP Education Writer Angel Hope looked at the math test and felt lost. He had just graduated near the top of his high school class, winning scholarships from prestigious colleges. But…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and KEN SWEET - Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After 13 years, at least three crashes, dozens of scams and Ponzi schemes and hundreds of billions of dollars made and evaporated,…