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Wayne Parry / AP Can Taxes Encourage Better Corporate Behavior?
Researchers say that regulations aren’t the only option the government has for discouraging companies from taking on too much risk.
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Mark Lennihan / AP How to End Homelessness in New York City
Supportive housing can help get people who have cycled through jail and emergency rooms off the streets permanently.
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Frederick Charles, Fcharles.com | Curtis + Ginsberg Architects … A Home for Unlikely Neighbors
In one Harlem apartment building, single moms and formerly incarcerated individuals are building a community.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters The Holiday-Package Waiting Game
Will shipping companies ever be able to catch up to online retailers during peak gift-giving season?
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The Walters Group The Pervasive Fear of Affordable Housing in New Jersey
A March state-level Supreme Court ruling requires many municipalities to build hundreds of apartments. In one town, opposition has taken on an anti-Semitic cast.
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP Education Gaps Don't Fully Explain Why Black Unemployment Is So High
Even when they hold the same degree, African Americans are still much more likely to be looking for a job than white Americans.
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Rich Pedroncelli / AP A New Investment Opportunity: Helping Ex-Convicts
A New York program asks outsiders to fund a promising initiative to reduce recidivism. If it gets results, they get a payout.
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Library of Congress Gender Equity Requires Changes in Law, Not Just in Culture
Even in developed countries, legal barriers can stunt economic independence for women.
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Paramount Things to Read After Watching The Big Short
For those who want more
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Paramount Learning Finance via The Big Short
The movie is being lauded for its attempt to tackle tricky concepts, but will any of it stick?
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Eric Gay / AP Nowhere to Go: The Housing Crisis Facing Americans With Disabilities
For millions of renters with limited mobility and other physical challenges, there are few homes and apartments on the market that work for them.
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Erik de Castro / Reuters The Invisible Work That Women Do Around the World
According to the UN, women take on three of every four hours of unpaid labor.
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Joel Raskin / Jan Mika / Shutterstock / … When the Government Tells Poor People How to Live
Residents in some public-housing units in Worcester, Massachusetts, must now get a job or go back to school. If they don’t, they’ll be evicted.
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Matt Mills McKnight / AP The Cities Where People Shop Small
New data from JPMorgan Chase looks at the places where people do and don’t patronize the little guys.
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Steinkamp Photography The Art of Making Do
As the climate keeps getting weirder, localities across the nation are figuring out ways to adapt.
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Jeff Chiu / Reuters When Will Labor Laws Catch Up With the Gig Economy?
Companies such as Uber will get regulated eventually—but whether that's the best way to help on-demand workers is still being debated.
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Mike Groll / Reuters Better Schools, Better Economies
What would happen to the GDP if states started investing more heavily in education?
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Robert Galbraith / Reuters Can California's Farmers Get Smarter About How They Use Groundwater?
Because rain is rare, preserving what's underground is becoming even more important.
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Courtesy of Patrick Bulot Cool Roofs
Replacing asphalt shingles with reflective metal could curb the warming of Houston’s hot climate.
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Courtesy of Terranova Ranch Inc. To Defeat the Drought, Look Under Your Feet
Facing a parched future, California farmers are thinking afresh about ways to replenish the groundwater.
