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Business & Finance

Here’s how this DC-area high school is helping to close the wealth gap

Hill Street Studios | Getty Images Keith Harris, a 17-year-old high school senior at KIPP DC College Preparatoryhas studied accounting, investing and budgeting, among other basic lessons, like his English, history and math curriculum. Harris is enrolled in his high school’s NAF Academy of Businessa rigorous three-year finance program with a work-based learning component. Because […]

Entertainment

‘Babygirl’ Director Defends Age Gap Explored in Nicole Kidman Movie

Babygirl writer-director Halina Reijn is sharing her perspective on depicting an age-gap romance in Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson‘s new erotic thriller. During a recent interview with W Magazinethe filmmaker was asked about Babygirlwhich is currently playing in theaters, joining the list of recent films that feature age-gap romantic relationships, such as May-December and The Idea of […]

Politics

What’s behind the widening gender wage gap in the US?

Just how much of a setback was the COVID-19 pandemic for U.S. working women? Although women who lost or left their jobs at the height of the crisis have largely returned to the workforce, a recent finding points to the price many paid for stepping back: In 2023, the gender wage gap between men and […]

Science

Researchers shed light on a 30-million-year gap

Bathymetric map of the region of the Pacific that focuses on the ∼100 Myr Samoan hotspot track, from the active Samoan hotspot volcano (Vailuluʻu Seamount) to the Dutton Ridge (near the Mariana trench). Credit: AGU Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1029/2023AV001079 When plumes of magma well up through Earth’s lithosphere, they create volcanoes, islands, seamounts, and other […]

Science

How to Close the Gender Health Gap

If you’re a man, you are more likely to suffer a health condition that kills you. But if you’re a woman, you are more likely to live in ill health. Women spend 25 percent more of their lives in ill health compared to men. This, in a nutshell, is the gender health gap. When a […]