Francisca Saldivar Palacios

• Data
• Economy
• Multimedia

Since the industrial revolution, wealth has been used as a way to measure a country’s prosperity—income has been synonymous with well-being. In more recent years, however, those seeking to quantify development have turned to other, more holistic,...

• Education
• United States

The 2022 college admissions cycle highlights two contradicting realities in higher education. On one hand, top-tier universities showcased their lowest admissions rates in history and a more socioeconomically diverse set of applicants. But greater ec...

• Health
• United States

Drug overdoses in the United States have grown enormously over the past five years. As a consequence, public health officials across the country have lobbied for harm reduction policies. In December 2021, New York City became the first city in the Un...

• Economy
• Latin America
• World

In Fall 2021, Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), proposed important changes to the 2014 Energy Reform law, consolidating his previous stances for a centralized economy. At their core, the proposed amendments suggest that the ...

• Magazine

Gone are the days of Tony the Tiger and Cap’n Crunch. In October 2020, the Mexican government implemented the New Mexico Food Law (NOM-051), which requires foods that fail to meet certain nutritional standards to include front-of-package health...