Students are on the brink of an out-of-this-world learning opportunity. On April 8, more than 750 college students across the United States will launch hundreds of weather balloons into the atmosphere to research, observe and engage with the total solar eclipse as a part of a student initiative spearheaded by the Montana Space Grant Consortium. […]
Alarm bells are sounding as the U.S. debt surpassed $34 trillion at the start of 2024. This translates to an average of approximately $259,000 per household and $101,240 per person, according to real-time data from the site USDebtClock.org. Those figures bring the enormity of the debt into a more tangible perspective for American families. The […]
At the center of Washington’s effort to manage America’s debt are regular sales of new Treasury bills. For all involved, these are ideally little-noticed happenings. But weak demand for some recent auctions is raising concerns about how smoothly the government will be able to finance its ballooning debt in the years ahead with higher interest […]