Although investors cheered the Federal Reserve’s recent rate cut and the stock market has kept powering along, the economy is facing growing headwinds on one crucial front - consumer spending.

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. A recent study by the National College Attainment Network found that a majority of two- and four-year ...

Attending college once provided a similar payoff for students regardless of their parents’ income, but that’s no longer the case, according to a new working paper published on Monday by the National ...

WASHINGTON, June 2 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's signature tax break on tips promises relatively few upsides for low-income Americans, who face a net loss of income under his massive tax ...

Thousands of people enrolled in short-term, job-focused programs will soon be able to use federal grants to pay tuition, which could reshape how low-income students access higher education and the ...

A Republican budget bill would cut federal Pell Grants for many low-income students, according to an analysis by the group Center for American Progress. Credit: Getty Images The Hechinger Report ...

Low-income college students, whose proportion of enrollment is already dropping, could soon face new obstacles to going to and graduating from college. Credit: Ted Shaffrey/AP Photo The Hechinger ...

America’s era of big public housing projects was a grand experiment whose period of favor was remarkably short-lived. The austere, often high-rise complexes rose across US cities in a few decades, ...