What Amazon Does to Poor Cities
The debate over Amazon’s HQ2 obscures the company’s rapid expansion of warehouses in low-income areas.
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Elaine Thompson / AP How Amazon Helped Kill a Seattle Tax on Business
A levy on big companies to fund affordable housing awakened the ire of corporations.
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Alana Semuels / The Atlantic The Radical Preacher of Palo Alto
A pastor who resigned after tweeting scathing criticisms of liberals in Silicon Valley proved too leftist even for California.
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John Bazemore / AP Reverse Migration Might Turn Georgia Blue
More black people from the Northeast and Midwest are moving to Atlanta. That could help elect the nation’s first black female governor.
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Ted S. Warren / AP The Problem With Buying Cheap Stuff Online
Sites like Wish.com are taking out the middleman in retail. Will customers like this new dynamic?
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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP The 'Black Hole' That Sucks Up Silicon Valley's Money
A fast-growing type of charitable account gets big tax breaks but little oversight.
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Rich Pedroncelli / AP Free Shipping Isn't Hurting Amazon
Sending packages is expensive. But the retailer isn’t afraid to spend.
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Julio Cortez /AP Amazon May Have a Counterfeit Problem
The company is facing multiple lawsuits from brands who say it does not do enough to prevent fakes from being listed on its website.
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Alana Semuels / The Atlantic A House You Can Buy, But Never Own
African Americans in the same neighborhoods decimated by subprime lending are now being targeted with new predatory loan offerings, a lawsuit argues.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Trump’s Complaints About Amazon Have a Historical Precedent
The fraught history of government-subsidized package delivery
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Kiichiro Sato / AP Chicago’s Awful Divide
Americans are flocking to big cities to find good jobs—opportunities that remain disproportionately out of reach for the poorest residents already living there.
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Charlie Riedel / AP A Small Town Kept Walmart Out. Now It Faces Amazon.
How can local businesses compete with a company so local it lets people shop from their couches?
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters This Is What Life Without Retirement Savings Looks Like
Many seniors are stuck with lives of never-ending work—a fate that could befall millions in the coming decades.
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Julio Cortez / AP Why Amazon Pays Some of Its Workers to Quit
The company’s unusual offer—to give employees up to $5,000 for leaving—may actually be a way to get them to stay longer.
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Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP / Getty When Divorce Is an Opportunity
In Sweden, progressive gender dynamics can lead immigrant women to leave their husbands and become independent.
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Spencer Platt / Getty Organized Labor’s Growing Class Divide
Why have high-profile organizing campaigns succeeded for white-collar workers and failed for blue-collar workers?
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harpazo_hope / Getty The Internet Is Enabling a New Kind of Poorly Paid Hell
For some Americans, sub-minimum-wage online tasks are the only work available.
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters Pushing Out Immigrants Isn't About the Economy
Donald Trump's widely reported 'shithole' remark dismantles the economic argument against foreigners.
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Alana Semuels / The Atlantic The Places That May Never Recover From the Recession
The Rust Belt isn’t the only region left behind by the economic recovery. The suburbs of the American west are struggling, too.
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Damian Dovarganes / AP Low-Wage Workers Aren’t Getting Justice for Sexual Harassment
Despite the #MeToo movement, poor women often find that speaking out against abuse at work is too costly.
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Steve Scott Robots Will Transform Fast Food
That might not be a bad thing.
