Lizzie Ramirez

4 weeks ago | nnbw.com | Lizzie Ramirez |Tabitha Mueller

For Anna Woods, housing isn’t guaranteed. She’s lived in two student dorms, a room shared with a friend at a house, and now a student apartment with one bathroom for $2,700 a month shared by four roommates who split the costs. Each week, the 23-year-old UNR undergraduate student checks her bank account to make sure she has enough money to afford rent. “My first initial savings is definitely depleted,” Woods said. “I feel like a few more big expenses would take me out.”She isn’t alone.

1 month ago | wealthcreationinvesting.com | Lizzie Ramirez |Tabitha Mueller

view original postBy Lizzie Ramirez and Tabitha Mueller - For Anna Woods, housing isn't guaranteed. She's lived in two student dorms, a room shared with a friend at a house, and now a student apartment with one bathroom for $2,700 a month shared by four roommates who split the costs. Each week, the 23-year-old UNR undergraduate student checks her bank account to make sure she has enough money to afford rent. "My first initial savings is definitely depleted," Woods said.

Jan 24, 2025 | thenevadaindependent.com | Lizzie Ramirez

Graduate students from UNR and UNLV have formed a union and are seeking formal recognition from the higher education system so they can collectively bargain to address workplace harassment and discrimination, lack of job security and low pay. The Nevada Graduate Student Worker Union (NGSW-UAW) sent a letter Jan.

Jan 16, 2025 | thenevadaindependent.com | Lizzie Ramirez

Workers aren’t booted from the insurance program for low-income families if they have a job, but critics say it’s a quiet subsidy for profitable corporations. For the fifth year in a row, Amazon is the leading employer with the most recipients on Medicaid in Nevada. There were 18,093 Amazon employees and their dependents who were on Medicaid, a government-funded insurance program serving people with low incomes, during the fiscal year that ended in mid-2024.

Jan 3, 2025 | teenvogue.com | Lizzie Ramirez

This story was written by Teen Vogue's 2024 Student Correspondents, a team of college students and recent graduates covering the election cycle from key battleground states. With Donald Trump’s reelection, many young people are posting on social media about what to expect from Trump’s proposed tariffs, how they as consumers will be affected, and what they should buy — if they should buy — before prices rise. In simple terms, a tariff is a sales tax on items imported from foreign countries.