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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Wages Are Low and Workers Are Scarce. Wait, What?
The low unemployment rate and stagnant pay point to a depressed economy underneath.
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Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters The Rise of the Zombie Small Businesses
What your chicken dinner says about wage stagnation, income inequality, and economic sclerosis in the United States
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Elijah Nouvelage / Reuters America’s Invisible Pot Addicts
More and more Americans are reporting near-constant cannabis use, as legalization forges ahead.
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Why the U.S. Should Provide Universal Basic Income
The government should consider giving out monthly Social Security checks—no strings attached.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Jeff Bezos’s $150 Billion Fortune Is a Policy Failure
Growing inequality in the United States shows that the game is rigged.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Are Stock Buybacks Starving the Economy?
A new report finds that big companies could have given their workers thousands of dollars’ worth of raises with the money they spent on their own shares.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters Fixing America’s Forgotten Places
Opportunity Zones, created by Trump’s tax law, are meant to help the heartland thrive and make the country more equal—but can they pull it off?
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Aleksandra Michalska / Reuters How Much Damage Will Trump’s Trade War Do?
Higher prices, slowing growth, mounting layoffs—and the indirect costs may be even greater.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Say Hello to Full Employment
Want to know where the economy is headed? Look at Des Moines.
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Loren Elliott / Reuters How America Treats Its Own Children
Child poverty, homelessness, violence, obesity, illness: The United States is already an outlier.
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Evan Vucci / AP Left Economy, Right Economy
Republicans and Democrats are looking at the same set of facts and suddenly seeing very different things.
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Eric Learned / Alexandre Godreau / Remi Jacquaint ... A Promise So Big, Democrats Aren’t Sure How to Keep It
Progressives are lining up behind a jobs guarantee—but leaving the details for later.
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Reuters The Ivanka Fund
How did the Trump administration end up spurring the creation of a gender-equality initiative for some of the world’s poorest women?
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Very Male Trump Administration
The president has named twice as many men as women to appointed positions, an Atlantic analysis shows.
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Steve Pope / AP Why America's Teachers Haven't Been Getting Raises
It's not just educators in West Virginia and Oklahoma who have watched their wages and benefits erode since the Great Recession.
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Andrew Merry / Getty A Provision Hidden in the Banking Bill Could Hurt Black Homeowners
The country's racial wealth gap might widen if banks don't have to disclose as much about their mortgage-lending practices.
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Sue Ogrocki / AP Trump's ‘Smart’ Tariffs Don't Make Economic Sense
The president says they'll protect American jobs and bolster national security. They'll likely do neither.
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Spencer Platt / Getty Bitcoin Is Falling Out of Favor on the Dark Web
Steep transaction fees and wild price fluctuations have made the cryptocurrency harder to use in the illicit markets that originally made it famous.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters President Trump's Hunger Games
The administration’s proposal to overhaul SNAP would squeeze the nutrition safety net, and make it more paternalistic.
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Evan Vucci / AP Trump Finally Comments on the Stock Slump—by Arguing With It
His words evince both an interest in the market and a lack of knowledge about its gyrations.
