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Dr. Marli Miller / Visuals Unlimited / Corbis Americans Weigh in on the State of Economic Opportunity
A new poll shows there’s a political divide when it comes to how people view who gets ahead in America.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters What Economists Got Wrong About Free Trade
Considering how Chinese imports have affected American workers, the downsides of global exchange are much more intense and
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Alana Semuels / The Atlantic El Paso Is Learning That Not Everyone Hates Sprawl
Some Southwestern cities that are trying to increase walkability are finding that the modern metropolitan dream has its limits.
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Keith Bedford / Reuters Do Americans Believe Hard Work Still Matters?
Yes, but they're more skeptical about whether going to college helps them achieve their goals.
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Ivan Milutinovic / Reuters America's Persistent Economic Gloom
Even though the country's outlook is strong, a new poll shows that people’s feeling of pessimism have deepened.
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Paul Sancta / AP How Immigrants Are Helping to Revive Detroit
Ailing cities might have a lot to gain from nurturing enclaves of foreign-born residents, and their thriving businesses.
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Alana Semuels Crossing the Mexican-American Border, Every Day
Thousands of people in the El Paso-Ciudad Juarez region live a binational existence. It’s not easy.
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Library of Congress How Immigrants Fit Into America's Economy, Now and 100 Years Ago
Compared to 19th-century arrivals, today's new arrivals are much more likely to be at the extreme ends of the earnings spectrum.
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Nguyen Huy Kham / Reuters The TPP's Uneven Attempt at Labor Protection
The agreement puts pressure on some countries, such as Vietnam and Malaysia, to improve worker’s rights. But it leaves out Mexico, a major U.S. trade partner.
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Alana Semuels / The Atlantic Upheaval in the Factories of Juarez
Labor unrest is spreading through the factories on the border, where people say they deserve more than $6 a day.
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Yannis Behrakis / Reuters Where Is All the World’s Money Going?
“Far from trickling down, income and wealth are instead being sucked upwards at an alarming rate,” a new Oxfam study finds.
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The New York Public Library Revisiting a Jim Crow-Era Guide for Traveling While Black
Which restaurants were safe? Which hotels?
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Matt Rourke / AP The Unfair Opacity of Credit Cards Peddled to the Poor
Complex financial jargon, unwieldy contracts, high fees—these are the common tools of fringe subprime lenders.
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Lynne Sladky / AP Immigrants or Executives: Who’s to Blame for Wage Stagnation?
In his final State of the Union, President Obama said that corporate priorities, not workers from other countries, were responsible for sluggish salaries.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Are Capitol Hill Interns Federal Employees?
And why that matters
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Stephen Chernin / AP David Bowie: Musical Innovator, Financial Innovator?
The story of the artist’s foray into asset-backed securities
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Dan Joling / AP Closing a Budget Gap by Emptying Prisons
A massive shortfall in Alaska has put reforming the state’s system of incarceration at the top of the agenda.
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Rebecca Cook / Reuters Why Are Unions So Worried About an Upcoming Supreme Court Case?
Justices are about to hear oral arguments for a case that could seriously impede labor's fundraising abilities.
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Fred Prouser / Reuters The Age of the Ghost Company
In the last few years a couple of tech companies have become massive, but where are the jobs?
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Mark Kauzlarich / Reuters Bernie Sanders’s Plan to Make Banking Affordable for Average Americans
In a speech on Tuesday, he said that there's a "special place in the Seventh Circle of Hell for those who charged people usurious interest rates."
