by Nick Hagar | Feb 29, 2016 | Business, Living
WASHINGTON — A prominent financial figure highlighted a new way of funding social programs Monday – social impact bonds, contracts that bring private money to ventures that can improve society. By bringing increased capital to social programs, social impact bonds...
by Alex Lederman | Feb 29, 2016 | Business, Politics
Matthew Petersen might have made the best financial decision of his life when he was fifteen. For $1, he bought the Star ’85 Chicago Bulls basketball card team set—a bundle that included a Michael Jordan rookie card. In 2016, that piece of cardboard is selling on eBay...
by Tyler Kendall | Feb 29, 2016 | Business
WASHINGTON—Funmi Ayeni, a junior at Morgan State University, wants to be a National Institutes of Health researcher and work on improving mental health care in underdeveloped countries in Africa. Ayeni, a psychology major, is applying to graduate school, working on...
by Sabrina Rodriguez | Feb 26, 2016 | Education
WASHINGTON – When Tony DelaRosa went to study abroad in Japan in 2010, he planned to improve his Japanese speaking skills. But he didn’t plan on finding a new career path while teaching English at a Japanese orphanage. When he graduated from college two years later,...
by Medill News Service | Feb 24, 2016 | Campaign 2016, Politics
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Former President Bill Clinton tried to make a case Wednesday for why his wife is the best candidate for millennials struggling to get a foothold in the modern economy. Bill Clinton spoke to more than 150 people at a recreation center here in suburban...
by Allyson Chiu | Feb 24, 2016 | Environment
WASHINGTON — Five years ago a nuclear accident in Japan devastated the country and served as a learning experience for the nuclear industry in other lands. The United States has taken major steps to increase safety at all of its nuclear power plants, experts...
by Alex Lederman | Feb 24, 2016 | National Security
President Barack Obama sent a new plan to Congress on Tuesday to close Guantanamo Bay. But even Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who support closing the detention center, find issue with the proposal. Alex Lederman has...
by Jacob Meschke | Feb 24, 2016 | Health & Science
WASHINGTON — The head of sports medicine for the U.S. Olympic Committee revealed on Wednesday how the organization will combat the threat of American athletes contracting the Zika virus while in Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Summer Olympics. Testifying before a...
by Shane McKeon | Feb 24, 2016 | Politics
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Former President Bill Clinton tried to make a case Wednesday for why his wife is the best candidate for millennials struggling to get a foothold in the modern economy. Bill Clinton spoke to more than 150 people at a recreation center here in...
by Erin Bacon | Feb 24, 2016 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON- In the midst of a legal battle between Apple and the FBI over bypassing encryption in a terrorist’s iPhone, two lawmakers are readying a bill to create a digital security commission that would help decide how the government investigates terrorism on...
by Mariana Alfaro and Noah Fromson | Feb 24, 2016 | Topics
WASHINGTON — Pop star Demi Lovato, soul artist Leon Bridges and several other stars joined first lady Michelle Obama at her final White House music event for young people Wednesday, where she urged about 100 students from elementary school through college to...
by Medill News Service | Feb 24, 2016 | National Security, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON—Republican lawmakers criticized President Barack Obama’s budget proposal for the Department of Homeland Security over what they called “gimmicky” accounting. They called the $40.6 billion proposal “unrealistic” and “politically motivated,” because more than...
