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Steve Dipaola / Reuters Why Blacks and Hispanics Have Such Expensive Mortgages
High-cost lenders are targeting these communities, preventing them from building wealth to pass on to their children.
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Jeff Chiu / AP Budget Woes in One of America's Wealthiest Cities
If San Jose can’t afford its basic public services, what city can?
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Scott Anger / AP The Place Where the Poor Once Thrived
San Jose, in the heart of Silicon Valley, used to be the best place in the country for kids to experience a Horatio Alger, rags-to-riches life. Is it still?
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Eric Gay / AP The Immigration-Data Conundrum
After generations, families may not identify with the race of their ancestors. What does that mean for measuring their economic progress?
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AP The Scourge of the Female Chore Burden
Melinda Gates explains the gender gap in unpaid labor and how it hurts the global economy.
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Andy Manis / AP Taxing the Wrongfully Convicted
For years, innocent men and women have faced tons of financial challenges when released from prison. A recently passed law may make things a bit easier.
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Brad Gunkel / New Avenue Homes Little Homes in Big Backyards: San Francisco's Housing Solution?
Bay Area cities are loosening restrictions on so-called accessory dwelling units, which homeowners can build in their basements, attics, or out on their lawns.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters What’s Really Behind Why Women Earn Less Than Men?
Once it was because they weren’t as well educated. What’s holding them back now?
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Mike Blake / Reuters Searching for the Origins of the Racial Wage Disparity In Jim Crow America
Were black workers paid less because employers discriminated or because of a systemic skills gap?
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Eric Risberg / AP The Super Bowl and a Broken San Francisco
The championship game descends on a city failing to deal with questions of affordability and inclusion.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Where Do Americans Think the Economy Is Headed?
A new poll finds that despite progress, people are spilt on how they feel about country’s financial health, and how much Obama has helped our hurt it.
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Mel Evans / AP Fixing Schools Outside of School
Districts are turning to private companies, nonprofits, and foundations for partnerships that can help tackle the biggest impediments to learning.
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Alana Semuels / The Atlantic The Midwives of El Paso
For women of the border, where to give birth is a matter of enormous consequence, and a birthing-center industry has flourished as a result.
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Elaine Thompson / AP The Amazon-Store Mystery
Is the company going to build hundreds of physical locations? Why would it want to?
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Denis Balibouse / Reuters How Do Americans Weigh Privacy Versus National Security?
A new poll shows people still think the collection of their personal data is a bad thing—but they’re marginally more willing to support increased national-security surveillance.
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Opening Belle / Simon and Schuster When Leaving Is the Only Option
In fiction and in life, the archetype of the woman who quits her job over sexism at work is all too common.
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Bebeto Matthews / AP Unemployment: The All-but-Certain Fate of Too Many Poor Black Boys
The consequences of concentrated poverty in childhood tend to persist long after kids grow up.
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Jason Reed / Reuters Who Do Americans Believe Is Best Suited to Fix the Economy?
Despite partisan divides, people generally agree on one thing—disappointment with the federal government.
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Charlie Neibergall / AP Learning How to Teach in an Increasingly Diverse Classroom
A program in Des Moines, Iowa, aims to train a cohort of predominately white instructors to help students who come from very different backgrounds.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters What Is ‘Success’?
A new poll finds that Americans still value job stability and buying homes. They’re just less confident about the ability to achieve those goals.
