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James Willamor / Flickr The Downside of Durham’s Rebirth
The city carefully planned its economic revitalization. Why, then, is it so painful for some of the people who have lived here the longest?
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Mike Blake / Reuters The Best Business Reads of March
The month’s most interesting stories from around the web
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Stephanie Keith / Reuters Diverse Schools, Diverse Offices?
A new study finds that students who attended more racially integrated high schools are more likely to wind up working with people from different backgrounds.
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Alex Brandon / AP A Departure From Decades of Highway Policy
Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx is urging communities to think more carefully about where they build roads.
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Alana Semuels / The Atlantic The Cities Doubling Down on Highways
Physically expanding roads doesn't cure congestion. So why are places like Arkansas spending millions to do just that?
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AP / Danny Johnston What the Clinton Library Says About Welfare Reform
“The welfare system no longer held people back, it helped them to move ahead.”
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Angelo Yap / Flickr Is a Different Kind of Silicon Valley Possible?
Durham is trying to build a successful start-up sector that addresses the industry's diversity problems from the get-go.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters How Earnings Influence a Woman’s Decision to Wed
A new study suggests that as their wages increase relative to men’s, female workers become less likely to marry.
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Library of Congress The Role of Highways in American Poverty
They seemed like such a good idea in the 1950s.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters What Motivates Companies to Do Good—Altruism, or Guilt?
A study of 4,500 American firms aims to explain the rise of corporate social-responsibility programs.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters The False Promise of Last Year's Wage Gains
An apparent boost in buying power was really just the product of a dip in inflation, according to a think tank’s report.
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Seth Perlman / AP The Folly of State-Level Tax Cuts
In a strong national economy, places like Louisiana, Illinois, and Oklahoma are nevertheless struggling. Why?
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Toby Melville / Reuters The Trouble With Investing Like Everyone Else
By the time novices hop on a financial bandwagon, an asset is probably dangerously past its prime.
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Alana Semuels / The Atlantic Can Texas Figure Out How to Teach English to Immigrant Children?
Schools in El Paso are struggling to find the funds and the format to help low-income Spanish-speaking students.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Can Millennials Undo What the Recession Did to Their Earnings?
Not without help
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Jessica Rindaldi / Reuters The American Neighborhoods Without Water, Sewers, or Building Codes
Low-income residents bought cheap land outside of border cities decades ago. But the promised infrastructure never came.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters America’s Insidious Eviction Problem
An on-the-ground look at how the practice of removing tenants from their homes is exacerbating cycles of poverty, especially among minorities and women.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Why Gender Inequality Is More Acute for Women in the South
A new report reveals wider pay gaps and poor workplace treatment for the female workers of southern states.
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Bob Riha Jr / Reuters A Tale of Two Water Systems
California’s population growth enables it to build top-of-the-line infrastructure—something that isn’t possible for Rust Belt cities.
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Paulo Whitaker / Reuters The Best Business Reads of February
The month’s best stories from around the web
