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Charlie Riedel / AP A Small Town Kept Walmart Out. Now It Faces Amazon.
How can local businesses compete with a company so local it lets people shop from their couches?
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters This Is What Life Without Retirement Savings Looks Like
Many seniors are stuck with lives of never-ending work—a fate that could befall millions in the coming decades.
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Julio Cortez / AP Why Amazon Pays Some of Its Workers to Quit
The company’s unusual offer—to give employees up to $5,000 for leaving—may actually be a way to get them to stay longer.
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Mike Segar / Reuters The Promise of Indoor, Hurricane-Proof ‘Vertical’ Farms
They might be an efficient way to produce food in a world with more-extreme weather—but only if growers can figure out a successful business model.
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Reuters America Finally Sees Meaningful Wage Growth
The first jobs report of the year beat economists’ expectations, and provided the biggest boost in earnings since 2009.
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Kevork Djansezian / Getty What Amazon Does to Poor Cities
The debate over Amazon’s HQ2 obscures the company’s rapid expansion of warehouses in low-income areas.
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Kevork Djansezian / Reuters Trump Misunderstands Jay-Z and the Black Community
The president’s tweet directed at the rapper shows that he still doesn’t grasp the actual issues black Americans are struggling with.
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Spencer Platt / Getty Organized Labor’s Growing Class Divide
Why have high-profile organizing campaigns succeeded for white-collar workers and failed for blue-collar workers?
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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP The CFPB’s New Mission
In a memo, the agency's director outlines his vision for a regulator that's kinder and gentler to the financial industry.
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Joshua Roberts / AP Trump's Biggest Economic Victory Yet
The Senate quickly confirmed the president's pick for the next leader of the Federal Reserve.
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harpazo_hope / Getty The Internet Is Enabling a New Kind of Poorly Paid Hell
For some Americans, sub-minimum-wage online tasks are the only work available.
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Sara Hylton / Reuters Craft Beer Is the Strangest, Happiest Economic Story in America
Corporate goliaths are taking over the U.S. economy. Yet small breweries are thriving. Why?
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters Pushing Out Immigrants Isn't About the Economy
Donald Trump's widely reported 'shithole' remark dismantles the economic argument against foreigners.
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John Locher / AP A Tiny Texas Town Takes a Chance on Medical Marijuana
Schulenburg, with fewer than 3,000 residents and a polka museum, seems an unlikely place for some of the state’s first legal sales of the drug.
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Alana Semuels / The Atlantic The Places That May Never Recover From the Recession
The Rust Belt isn’t the only region left behind by the economic recovery. The suburbs of the American west are struggling, too.
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Damian Dovarganes / AP Low-Wage Workers Aren’t Getting Justice for Sexual Harassment
Despite the #MeToo movement, poor women often find that speaking out against abuse at work is too costly.
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David Goldman / AP The Opioid Crisis Comes to the Workplace
The number of Americans dying at work due to overdoses is increasing at a rapid clip.
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Daniel Munoz / Reuters Beyond Sexual Harassment
The most common forms of discrimination that women face are getting paid too little and constantly having their competence doubted.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The United States Is Already a Low-Tax Country
The Republican tax cuts would make it an even lower-tax country, and a lower-benefit one too.
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Katherine Frey / The Washington Post via Getty The Christmas-Tree Shortage Could Last for Years
During the recession, growers didn't have the cash to plant adequately—and those smaller crops are just starting to hit the market.
