Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, at rear, listens as Vice President Kamala Harris speaks in Washington, D.C., June 2, 2022. Olivier Douliery | Afp | Getty Images Amberlee McGaughey, a librarian in Pennsylvania, was not worried about the restart of student loan payments. She was done with her debt, or so …

Edinburg, home to the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, ranks as the most wallet-friendly college town, according to WalletHub’s “Best College Towns and Cities in America” study. To determine the most affordable college towns, WalletHub evaluated 415 cities of various sizes that had a college or university population of …

In 1896, pioneering doctor and pharmacist Sagen Ishizuka coined a Japanese philosophy called “shokuiku.” It is derived from two words that mean “eat” and “grow.”  Shokuiku encourages parents and schools to teach kids where their food comes from and how it affects our mind and body. This concept has been …

Winning an argument may boil down to one simple tactic: Getting people to listen to you. That’s according to five TED Talk speakers, whose backgrounds — from business and law to journalism and academia — helped them become more persuasive. Some conventional persuasion tactics do work, they say: You can …

Today’s housing market is a toxic mix of high mortgage rates, high prices, tight supply and strangely strong pent-up demand — and it’s scaring off buyers and sellers alike. Prices were already high, driven by supercharged demand during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Now the popular 30-year fixed mortgage …

Apple NameDrop in iOS 17. Apple The next time you are at a networking event or dinner party, you can exchange phone numbers with a new colleague or friend just by holding your iPhones near each other. The feature, known as NameDrop, became available when Apple rolled out iOS 17 …

Sometimes, the best way for parents to help their kids succeed is to hold them back. That’s according to parenting researcher Jennifer Breheny Wallace. In her recent book, “Never Enough: When Achievement Pressure Becomes Toxic — and What We Can Do About It,” Wallace investigates the idea of “toxic achievement culture” and …

When Mark Cuban launched his first tech startup, he couldn’t have known he’d end up a billionaire today. He was confident, though, that his sales pitch for the company — a software startup called MicroSolutions — would work. In a recent post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Cuban shared …

The most popular question on Ark Invest’s website has nothing to do with investing in the U.S., according to the firm’s CEO and Chief Investment Officer Cathie Wood. “The No. 1 question on our website as we track these questions is: Why can’t we buy your strategies in Europe?” the …

Searching for ways to feel more present, I started meditating every day and committed to it for an entire month; daily meditation opened my eyes to just how much time we spend living in the past or the future and not the present. Though meditation isn’t a new concept, “monk …