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Army Cuts Popular Education Benefit in Half, Bars Officers as Costs Soar

2 mn readThe Army is dramatically scaling back one of its most generous education benefits, the Credentialing Assistance program known as Army CA, in a bid to rein in costs that could be one of the most consequential shifts in soldiers’ benefits in years. Introduced force-wide in 2020, Army CA was hailed as a groundbreaking complement to traditional scholarship […]

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Is Graduate School Worth the Cost?

3 mn readStudents must weigh future salary and career prospects against debt and lost earnings. Seeking more education may feel like a promising option for gaining skills and increasing job opportunities, but prospective students must first determine whether graduate school is worth the cost. In recent years, increased federal and legislative attention has been paid to the cost […]

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Most high schoolers want to learn about financial topics, but only 10 states require it

2 mn readNorris Williford, a 22-year-old college senior, doesn’t just work at the MBM Kicks shoe store in downtown Richmond, Virginia — he owns it. And it was a high school class that helped him gain the skills for how to open a business at such a young age. “Ms. Hayer was actually one of my biggest influences. She […]

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‘There was almost a utopian feeling to it’: How StumbleUpon pioneered the way we use the internet

7 mn readStumbleUpon, a tool that led users to random websites, had a stranglehold on millennials in the 2010s. Its influence echoes through everything we do online. For Kaitlyn Arford, a 31-year-old freelance writer based in Kentucky, US, memories of her early experiences with the internet all coalesce around one website: StumbleUpon.  “Any time I had a […]

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Artists imagine a new utopia for Kenya’s capital

3 mn readKenya’s capital, Nairobi, has long been known as “the green city in the sun” because of its mix of forest and grasslands among the urban sprawl, but it all depends on where you are viewing it from. Seen from one of the city’s comfortable apartment blocks or homes, then yes, perhaps – from one of […]

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Bear-leather shoes and Roman ‘good-luck’ coins: The lost worlds emerging from glaciers

7 mn readAs glaciers and ice patches melt, they reveal untold stories of human skill, adventure, faith – and deadly conflict. Some 5,000 years ago, a tattooed man in his 40s, with brown eyes and thinning black hair, climbed a steep mountain in the Ötztal Alps, on the border between what is now Italy and Austria, to a mountain ridge more than […]

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