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Blog: Features – FiveThirtyEight
Presidents are getting older and older. Former President Donald Trump was the oldest person to assume office when he was sworn in on Jan. 20, 2017, and President Biden broke that record four years later. If either is elected again next year, at ages 78 and 81, respectively, they will be older than the previous […]
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When Congress voted in May to restart student loan payments this fall — and then the Supreme Court overturned President Biden's student loan forgiveness plan in June — Alexa Goins and her husband realized they had a choice: They could keep their house or they could pay off their student debt. Together, she and her […]
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Student loan payments are scheduled to begin again this October after a pause of more than three years. Because of a Supreme Court decision last month, these payments will resume without a forgiveness plan from the Biden administration that would have wiped out up to $20,000 from some borrowers' balances. We want to know more […]
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The economy is doing well. Americans just don't believe it. By many metrics — employment, consumer spending and wages — the economic recovery from the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic was rapid. But Americans have been displeased with President Biden's handling of the economy since he moved into the job. An Associated Press/NORC Center for […]
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On Friday, the last day of this year's term, the Supreme Court struck down President Biden's student loan forgiveness plan. The court concluded in a 6-to-3 ruling that the president overstepped his executive authority by making such a large-scale change to the program via a waiver, as laid out in a 2003 law. Chief Justice […]
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In a ruling on two related cases on Thursday written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court just ended affirmative action in higher education as we know it. The two cases — Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina — […]
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With less than a week until the U.S. runs out of cash, economists and policymakers are using words like "cataclysmic event" and "calamity" to describe what will happen if Congress doesn't raise the debt limit. It seems bad. Economists are predicting that if the government is unable to pay its bills, it could bring much […]