Annie Lowrey
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Sarah Elly The App That Monetized Doing Nothing
Inside the meteoric, chilled-out, totally paradoxical rise of Calm
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Elijah Nouvelage / Bloomberg / Getty Workers Should Have the Power to Say ‘No’
Policy makers should not ensure a flood of low-wage workers for America’s businesses.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic / Getty Why Millennials Can’t Grow Up
Today’s economic conditions are not just holding Millennials back. They are stratifying them, leading to unequal experiences within the generation as well as between it and other cohorts.
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Getty Low-Skill Workers Aren’t a Problem to Be Fixed
The label “low-skill” flattens workers to a single attribute, ignoring the capacities they have and devaluing the jobs they do.
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Lauren Tamaki What If Andrew Yang Wins?
His proposals are radical. He’s obsessed with robots. He’s never even worked in government. And next year he might be running New York.
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Getty Your Diet Is Cooking the Planet
But two simple changes can help.
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Getty / Adam Maida / The Atlantic Could Index Funds Be ‘Worse Than Marxism’?
Economists and policy makers are worried that the Vanguard model of passive investment is hurting markets.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Americans Who Knitted Their Own Safety Net
Mutual-aid groups are helping Americans envision communities that meet everyone’s needs.
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Getty / The Atlantic Stockton’s Basic-Income Experiment Pays Off
A new study of the city’s program that sent cash to struggling individuals finds dramatic changes.
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Getty / The Atlantic Earmarks Are Good
Why shouldn’t Democrats curry Joe Manchin’s favor with a few sky bridges and concert halls?
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Getty / The Atlantic The Counterintuitive Workings of the Minimum Wage
The benefits of a $15 minimum would greatly outweigh the costs.
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Getty / The Atlantic Stocks Don't Care About the Coup
As the Capitol rocked, capital shrugged. How can that be?
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Getty / The Atlantic How the Low Minimum Wage Helps Rich Companies
Low wages benefit employers at the expense of both workers and taxpayers.
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John Prieto / The Denver Post / Getty … Growing Old, Alone
Isolation has taken a tremendous emotional toll on many older Americans.
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Shutterstock / Getty Stop Worrying About Budget Deficits
Red ink isn’t a problem as long as the country is spending on the right things.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Easy Way for Joe Biden to Save Lives
Eliminating nicotine from tobacco products could help up to 5 million adult smokers quit within a year.
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Getty / Shutterstock / The Atlantic America Failed at COVID-19, but the Economy’s Okay. Why?
The U.S. entered the coronavirus recession with a few structural advantages. Its success may not last for long.
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Shutterstock / Getty / The Atlantic Go Ahead, Forgive Student Debt
Debt forgiveness is not the best form of stimulus available. But Joe Biden shouldn’t waver.
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Getty / Katie Martin / The Atlantic States Need Federal Money to Do the Right Thing
Bailing out bars and restaurants would allow them to remain closed—and curb the spread of the coronavirus.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Divided Government Will Doom the Economy
As Washington dithers, the country will suffer.
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