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Brittain Peck Beware of Selling Yoga Pants on Facebook
Is the social-media gig economy a form of entrepreneurship, fraud—or something else entirely?
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Elnur / Nils Z / John Wollwerth / ... The Divorce Gap
There’s a common perception that women siphon off the wealth of their exes and go on to live in comfort. It’s wrong.
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Taylor Callery Trapped Into Selling Magazines Door-to-Door
Traveling crews have been exploiting young workers and scamming customers for decades—and neither law enforcement nor Congress has been able to do anything about it.
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MA8/CristinaMuraca/Shutterstock​/The Atlantic The Hidden Costs of International Surrogacy
Overseas options look cheaper on paper, but they don't account for fraud, travel costs, and legal headaches that inevitably arise.
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MIke Kline/Flickr When Bosses Discriminate Against Pregnant Women
In 2006, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received nearly 5,000 complaints from new moms—a 30 percent increase from the previous decade.
