A week after moving to Chiang Mai in northern Thailand to take up a teaching post, I visited the Sunday night Walking Street Market. The market bisects the ancient city with vendors peddling ...

Congress is currently considering cutting funding for the campus-based Federal Work-Study Program that helps the most economically disadvantaged students pay for postsecondary education. Such action ...

More than a decade ago, with the nation’s unemployment rate nearing 10 percent, President Barack Obama convened dozens of business, labor, and community leaders at a White House summit to help him ...

After 12 years of retirement, Roy Pearson was ready for something to do. In April, the 74-year-old retired United Methodist Church pastor joined the AARP Foundation's Senior Community Service ...

Recently, I was invited to speak to a group of middle schoolers in Harlem about their careers and what specific steps they should take to land their dream jobs. The opportunity, hosted as part of a ...

Most Boston area schools are meeting the federal work study programs despite recent studies suggesting schools are falling behind the legal minimum. According to a report released in August by the ...

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Q: What is the pay rate for an on-campus position verses an off-campus community service position? A: Students employed on-campus and students employed at an off-campus non-profit agency are paid the ...

The country’s only Black governor, Wes Moore, has launched a lucrative program for high school graduates, age 18-21, to boost community service. The SERVE Act is the first program of its kind that ...

During the pandemic, workers 55 and older lost jobs earlier, were rehired slower and faced higher unemployment rates than younger workers, according to an October 2020 study by The New School for ...