Jordan Weissmann
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Reuters Why a Minimum-Wage Hike Could Be Good for Wal-Mart
The retail behemoth might not feel much pain from a hike, but some of its competitors would.
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Reuters Liberals Need to Think Beyond the Minimum Wage
A new report from the Congressional Budget Office says a hike would help the working class, but less than many might hope.
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Reuters The U.S. Economy Might Be Doomed—but the Stock Market Isn't
Why investors can win even when the rest of us lose.
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Wikimedia Commons Why More Divorces Are a Good Sign for the Economy
Breakin' up is financially hard to do when the job market is in tatters. An uptick in splits means people are getting confident about their futures.
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Reuters Obama Just Gave Legal Marijuana a Big Boost
New memos from the Justice Department and Treasury aim to make it easier for growers and dispensaries to open bank accounts. But will skittish banks go along?
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Reuters Can the Government Block the Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger?
It would create a national behemoth out of two already-maligned companies. Then again, it's hard to make the anti-trust case if the cable providers barely compete for any customers.
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Reuters Indisputable Evidence That Millennials Have It Worse Than Any Generation in 50 Years
... at least, when it comes to unemployment.
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Wikimedia Commons Marriage Stages a Comeback (but Mostly Just for College Grads)
The share of newly married adults grew 2012. But bachelor's degree holders were responsible for almost all of the jump.
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Reuters Raising the Minimum Wage: A McDonald's-Killer, Not a McJobs-Killer
A new paper finds that fast-food restaurants are more likely to close when the minimum wage increases. The good news? New ones swoop right in to take their place.
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Reuters Obamacare Might Make Americans Work a Little Less—So What?
The Congressional Budget Office says Americans will cut their work hours thanks to the health reform law's new benefits. That might just be a good thing.
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Reuters Obama's Minimum Wage Hike Won't Help Many Workers
But the public will probably love it anyway.
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Reuters Millionaire Apologizes for Comparing Progressives to Nazis, Says His Watch Is Worth a '6-Pack of Rolexes'
Perhaps a new idea for Costco?
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Reuters Venture Capitalist Says "War" on the Rich Is Like Nazi Germany's War on the Jews
In a letter to the Wall Street Journal, Tom Perkins makes the worst historical analogy you will read for a long, long time.
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Flickr / Comedy_Nose Highly Educated, Highly Indebted: The Lives of Today's 27-Year-Olds, In Charts
A new study by the Department of Education offers up a statistical picture of young-adult life in the wake of the Great Recession.
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Reuters Money Is a Terrible Way to Measure the Value of a College Major
Yes, students need to understand what skills are marketable. But they also need to study subjects that keep them engaged enough to graduate.
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Reuters The Decline of the American Book Lover
And why the downturn might be over.
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Wikimedia Commons Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Solution to Poverty
In his final book, the civil rights leader laid out his vision for a universal basic income that would raise all Americans into the middle class.
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Reuters What David Brooks Doesn't Get About the Minimum Wage
...or income inequality, for that matter.
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Reuters The Growth of College Grads in Dead-End Jobs (in 2 Graphs)
The rise of the baristas.
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Reuters Ph.D. Programs Have a Dirty Secret: Student Debt
Almost a fifth of students finish their doctoral programs with more than $30,000 in loans.
