Annie Lowrey
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Simon Dawson / Reuters The Truth About the Gig Economy
Uber and similar companies aren’t driving huge changes in the way that Americans make a living.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters It’s Been Two Years. The President Still Hasn’t Released His Tax Returns
He also seems to be making a lot of money outside the presidency.
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Jim Young / Reuters How to End Government Shutdowns, Forever
Congress should stop relying on one-off funding extensions to keep the government running.
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Leah Millis / Reuters What Was Steve Mnuchin Thinking? Three Possibilities
The Treasury secretary put out an alarming—and confusing—press release on Sunday evening.
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Jim Young / Reuters Trump's Food-Stamp Policy Will Only Make Poverty Worse
The president wants to make it harder for jobless people to obtain food stamps.
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William West / AFP / Getty Why Hasn’t Australia Had a Recession in Almost 30 Years?
The U.S. should take a page from the island nation.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Does Trump Even Understand How Tariffs Work?
It’s unclear what the president wants to accomplish with his trade war.
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Chris Hondros / Getty Women May Earn Just 49 Cents on the Dollar
A new study suggests that the gender wage gap is much wider than previously thought.
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Wallace Kirkland / The Life Picture Collection / ... Tossing a Bird That Does Not Fly Out of a Plane
A Thanksgiving story about the limits of human empathy
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Matthieu Bourel The ‘Madman’ Behind Trump’s Trade Theory
Peter Navarro—a business-school professor, a get-rich guru, a former Peace Corps member, and a former Democrat—is among the most important generals in Trump’s trade war.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Amazon Was Never Going to Choose Detroit
The web retailing giant might put a corporate headquarters in affluent Washington. That should come as no surprise.
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Leah Millis / Reuters The One Issue That’s Really Driving the Midterm Elections
Ask voters what they care about, and they’re very clear.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Kamala Harris’s Trump-Size Tax Plan
The California senator is the latest Democrat to propose giving billions of dollars in cash to lower-income families.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Last Apolitical Institution in Washington
President Trump keeps criticizing the Federal Reserve. The central bank keeps ignoring him.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump’s Shady Accounting Playbook for the Hyper-rich
A sweeping New York Times investigation shows the legal and legally questionable maneuvers President Trump used to accumulate his wealth.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Are Immigrants a Drain on Government Resources?
The Trump administration’s argument for denying green cards to immigrant families is based on faulty math.
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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.
