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Linda Charmaraman, senior research scientist at Wellesley Centers for Women who specializes in the effects of social media among teens, says on average U.S. kids get a smartphone at around age 10.

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.

Linda Charmaraman, director of the Youth, Media & Wellbeing research lab, runs digital media workshops for teens. “Some of these teens,” she notes, “can teach the adults a thing or two about AI.”

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.

Recently about 100 Babson, Wellesley, and Olin students and faculty gathered to protest the Trump administration’s deportation policies.

The Chronicle of Higher Education ran a letter to the editor by Writing Program faculty Erin Battat about the recent article “Why It’s So Hard For Professors to Say Anything Good About Academe.”

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.

In the Conversation, Stephen Chen, associate professor of psychology, writes that the ancient Chinese philosopher Laozi can inspire us to shift our focus from competition to contentment.