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  • 3 weeks ago | vox.com | Jonquilyn Hill

    Every week on Explain It to Me, Vox’s call-in podcast, we answer the questions that matter to you most. When we got a question from a listener named Hannah, it piqued our interest. She wanted to know: How do you find a long-lost relative? “I was raised by my mom,” she says. “I knew my dad was out there somewhere, but I never really gave too much thought about it because I did have a pretty full life.” By the time we spoke with her, she had found her father online and reached out to him.

  • 1 month ago | vox.com | Jonquilyn Hill

    Money is always stressful, but between on-again, off-again, on-again tariffs, inflation, and a general sense of uncertainty, all things finance have been especially anxiety-inducing lately. Much of the advice given is geared toward people who have time to make up losses in the stock market. But what if you’re retired or close to retirement age? That’s the matter at hand on this week’s episode of Explain It to Me, Vox’s call-in podcast where we answer the questions that matter to you most.

  • 1 month ago | vox.com | Jonquilyn Hill

    is the host of Explain It to Me, your hotline for all your unanswered questions. She joined Vox in 2022 as a senior producer and then as host of The Weeds, Vox’s policy podcast.

  • 1 month ago | vox.com | Jonquilyn Hill

    Is college for everybody? According to Chelsea Waite, a senior researcher at the Center on Reinventing Public Education, the answer is no. And more students, parents, and educators are realizing it. Waite spent two years speaking to administrators, teachers, parents, and students at six high schools in New England to learn more about post-grad desires.

  • 2 months ago | vox.com | Jonquilyn Hill

    “Should I buy a house?” That’s the question that a listener, Miranda, brought to Explain It to Me, Vox’s weekly call-in show. “I think that’s always been the go-to investment for past generations,” she says. “You buy a house and that’s kind of your retirement plan, and that just doesn’t seem realistic or even attainable.”Miranda is far from alone in questioning whether homeownership is still the reliable engine of building wealth as it was for past generations.

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Jonquilyn Hill
Jonquilyn Hill @jonquilynhill
14 May 25

Was all of the first season of Forever the whole book? I’m gonna watch no matter what but curious if the next season is from the source material or expanded beyond it a la Handmaid’s Tale?

Jonquilyn Hill
Jonquilyn Hill @jonquilynhill
14 May 25

Streamers are a cultural blindspot for me and I'm ok with that. Auntie is tired.

Jonquilyn Hill
Jonquilyn Hill @jonquilynhill
13 May 25

RT @Phil_Lewis_: 40 years ago on this date, police dropped a bomb on a West Philadelphia neighborhood https://t.co/12vEsgM5gM