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Sari Pekkala Kerr, senior research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women, says it’s impossible to know the impact of a $30 minimum wage because it has never increased by that much.

Economist Sari Pekkala Kerr notes that while some states and cities have raised their minimum wages, the federal minimum wage, last raised 16 years ago, still acts as the floor in 20 states.

Net tuition costs for students across income levels and institution types have decreased since 2019–20, Phillip Levine writes in a new report for the Brookings Institution.

Scholars from five African countries, including visiting assistant teaching professor Tsegay Tekleselassie, of Ethiopia, write in the Conversation that the oil price surge hurts African economies.

When one considers what students actually pay after financial aid, college prices have stabilized and fallen over the past decade, writes economist Phillip Levine in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

New research from economist Phillip Levine, a college cost transparency advocate, shows the net price of four-year tuition continues to drop or remain steady for all but the highest-income students.

Three-year bachelor’s degrees and early college programs almost concede that we might never have a sufficiently funded higher education system, said Phillip Levine, professor of economics.

As fertility rates plummet in much of the world, Wellesley experts explain why it’s happening and what might be done to address it, and alums tell their own stories about their winding paths to becoming parents—or not.

Though the sticker price for higher education is rising, more universities say they’ll cover the costs for some students. Economist Phillip Levine says these policies have become more common.