As a teenager, Tim Luna thought he’d end up working in his mother’s taco shop or doing odd jobs around his small town in rural Texas. His family and teachers urged him to aim higher. Luna took college ...

An overwhelming majority of local government leaders (87 percent) believes polarization is hurting the country but far fewer (31 percent) see negative effects in their own communities New York, NY, ...

Cesiah Gonzalez had thought about joining the Marines, but in her sophomore year of high school in Albuquerque, she tried a paid internship as a medical assistant in a family health clinic. She ...

Moncef Slaoui was born in Agadir, Morocco, and grew up in Casablanca. Even though both of his parents had only high school educations, they were dedicated to creating educational opportunities for ...

"The Corporation seeks to understand how and why our society has become so polarized and what we can do to strengthen the forces of cohesion,” Louise Richardson DBE, President, Carnegie Corporation of ...

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship. The conditions of human life have ...

Alejandro Mayorkas was sworn in as Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security in 2013. Prior to that, he was appointed by President Obama in 2009 to as director of United States Citizenship and Immigration ...

Chef Lidia Bastianich brings the heritage of her birthplace in Pula, which blends Italian and Slavic cultures, to her food. Opening her first restaurant in Queens at the age of 24, she is now a ...

Political polarization has become a defining feature of American national politics. But is the same true for local government? A new survey, conducted by the nonprofit organization CivicPulse and ...

Congratulations to the 2024 Great Immigrants honorees! Every Fourth of July, Carnegie Corporation of New York celebrates remarkable Americans — all naturalized citizens — who have enriched and ...

Jensen Huang is the founder and chief executive officer of NVIDIA, which in 2024 became the most valuable public company in the world. Born in Taiwan, Huang was nine years old when his parents sent ...

Known as the father of fiber optic communications, Charles K. Kao discovered that by purifying glass, the material could replace copper wires in telecommunication to carry enormous amounts of ...