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States are spending less money on public colleges than they did in the past. According to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, adjusted for inflation, state support for public colleges and universities has fallen by about 26 percent per full-time student in the last 20 years.

Most Americans earn their bachelor's degrees at public universities, and it's easy to see why.

Adjusted for inflation, state support for each full-time public-college student declined by 26.1 percent from 1990 to 2010, forcing students and their families to shoulder more of the cost of higher education at a time when family incomes were largely stagnant, according to a report released on

NEW YORK – A new report reveals that African Americans remain disproportionately excluded from corporate and nonprofit board membership in New York City: Of the 697 directors that sit on the boards of the city’s 25 largest employers, only 5.7 percent are black. The study, by John Morning and

There is a tax on the 1 percent that Washington should be considering: A financial-transaction tax—better known as a financial speculation tax (FST).

Eco-sculpture installed in Mexico City by the nonprofit VerdMX.

I have often thought, “If education is expensive, try ignorance.”

African Americans remain disproportionately excluded from corporate and nonprofit board membership in New York City.

New report shows how a pattern of college disinvestment is leading to stagnant graduation rates and skyrocketing levels of student debt.

New Orleans, LA, Sept.