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Harrison McClary / Reuters Restaurants Are the New Factories
Food-service jobs are eating the economy. Maybe that’s not a good thing.
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Mike Blake / Reuters This Is the Way the College ‘Bubble’ Ends
Not with a pop, but a hiss
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Princeton University Art Museum What on Earth Is Wrong With Connecticut?
Conservatives say the state has a tax problem. Liberals say it has an inequality problem. What it really has is a city problem.
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Mike Blake / Reuters The Paradox of American Restaurants
The quality and variety of food in the U.S. has never been better. The business seems to be struggling. What’s really going on?
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Why Amazon Bought Whole Foods
The retailer’s $14 billion bet isn’t just about the future of food. It’s about the future of commerce—especially for rich urban consumers.
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Gene J. Puskar / AP Teenagers Have Stopped Getting Summer Jobs—Why?
Most used to work in July and August. Now the vast majority don’t. Are they being lazy, or strategic?
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John Sommers II / Reuters The Potemkin Policies of Donald Trump
The simplest summary of White House economic policy to date is four words long: There is no policy.
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Ted S. Warren / AP Amazon's Pivot to Poor People
Amazon wants to become Walmart faster than Walmart can become Amazon.
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Jim Urquhart / Reuters The White House Exaggerated the Growth of Coal Jobs by About 5,000 Percent
Donald Trump’s EPA head is touting bad statistics in defense of a foolish policy.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Is the Unemployment Rate Real, or What?
Throughout the campaign, Donald Trump called the unemployment rate “phony.” The White House is singing a different tune now that it’s hit a 16-year low during his presidency.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Why the ‘End of TV’ Is Great for Facebook and Google
If the dynamic tech duo could go back in time and design the perfect ally to push advertising from TV to mobile phones, it would look exactly like Netflix.
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What Makes Things Cool?
A handy acronym for popularity
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Jason Lee / Reuters So, Where Are All Those Robots?
Low unemployment. Low productivity growth. Low corporate investment in new technology. What’s going on?
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Mike Blake / Reuters Older Americans Are More Millennial Than Millennials
To understand both changes to the workforce and changing attitudes toward work, don’t watch young people. Watch their parents (and uncles, aunts, and grandparents).
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump’s Budget Is a Cruel Con
The president’s tax-and-spend plan isn’t just a reversal of his campaign promises. It’s also a deeply unpopular blueprint for the country.
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Steve Dipaola / Reuters The Shame of the Mortgage-Interest Deduction
It’s not just a failure of housing policy. It's a symbol of everything that’s wrong with the American tax code.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Why First-Born Children Are Better Leaders
The short answer: They have a lot of practice bossing around their younger siblings.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The GOP Health-Care Bill Is the Ultimate Reverse Robin Hood
If it becomes law, average households will lose money, and millionaires would get a windfall.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Donald Trump Is Helping the Very Media Organizations He Despises
How the president's war on the press has benefited some of the nation’s biggest news outlets
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Mike Blake / Reuters ESPN Is Not Doomed
But the network’s recent layoffs are a preview of major shifts to come in the television industry, American sports, and all of digital media.
