Zipporah Osei
Reporter, Social Sciences and Business & Economics
Zipporah Osei, based in Brooklyn, New York, covers Business & Economics and Social Sciences for The Academic Times. Prior to that, she worked as a research reporter at ProPublica and interned at The Boston Globe, Chronicle of Higher Education and Chalkbeat. She is the founder of the First Gen newsletter, which covers the first-generation college student experience. Zipporah has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Northeastern University.
The first four months of the COVID-19 pandemic saw large decreases in the mean and median rent prices in the largest metropolitan cities in the United States, but those decreases were driven almost entirely by price reductions in Black, Latino and diverse neighborhoods, according to new research on how the pandemic impacted rental markets.






Most women's economic well-being is negatively affected after getting divorced, but women with children are more likely to financially recuperate than childless women, according to new research that took the first comprehensive look at how family size affects the economic gaps created by divorce.







