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Maxim Shemetov / Reuters The Costs of Financial Isolation
When people don’t talk about their money troubles, their troubles get worse.
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Reuters Why Were So Many Madoff Victims Jewish?
The trust people tend to feel toward others in the same ethnic, racial, and political groups makes them easy targets for scammers.
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Fred Prouser / Reuters Saving SSDI
As the disability-insurance program’s trust fund runs out of cash, there are new signs of internal reform—but more changes are needed.
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Lee Celano / Reuters Between the World and Me: Saving the Next Generation
Why America’s inner-city youth need not inherit all of the burdens of the past
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The Atlantic The Nicotine Fix
America’s cigarette addiction may seem to be mostly over. But low-income Americans continue to smoke—and die—at alarming rates. A radical new strategy could help them quit once and for all.
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Pedro Bento/Shutterstock How to Break a National Habit
The demise of America’s cigarette addiction has been greatly exaggerated.
