The Federal Reserve's 50-basis-point interest-rate cut last month was "timely" and was neither reactive, nor proactive, Fed Vice Chair Philip Jefferson said on Tuesday.
Learn more in The N&O’s higher education newsletter about the relief funds that are accepting donations to help Western North Carolina’s colleges after Helene.
A new Inside Higher Ed/Generation Lab survey shows Harris leading nationally by 38 points, with around a third of students reporting they are more likely to cast a ballot because she’s top of the ticket. A whopping 57 percent of college students say they’re going to vote Democratic this November—and President Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of the race seems to have made a substantive impact on that number. Forty-two percent of those prospective Harris-Walz voters said they are more likely to vote now that the ticket has changed, according to the results of a new Inside Higher Ed Student Voice flash survey, in partnership with Generation Lab.
