Despite the growing need for increased education and advanced degrees to secure jobs, only 59 percent of students who begin college as freshman at a four-year college receive their diploma within six years. Students who come from low-income backgrounds are even less likely to graduate—if they even begin at all. […]
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How well has Puerto Rico recovered since Hurricane Maria?
On Monday, September 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria passed through the United States territory of Puerto Rico. After it pummeled through the island, the devastating category 4 storm left nearly the entire population of Puerto Rico without electricity and a shortage of water and food. There were more than 4,600 deaths […]
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China’s 24/7 Telecom Surveillance on Uighur Muslims
In the past few years, the situation in Xinjiang, China has slowly worsened. Much of the world looks on, preferring economic and foreign relations over upholding any human rights or ethical values. The few bodies that do, however, like the United Nations, have called China out, but many of these […]
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Bringing Internet to the Homes of Native Americans
Rural areas in the United States are the least connected. The struggle for many to gain access to high-speed broadband won’t be easy. It would be an understatement to say that today’s society is heavily dependent on the internet. Since the advent of the World Wide Web, millions of lives […]