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Robert Galbraith / Reuters Assessing Mark Zuckerberg's Non-Charity Charity
It’s too early to criticize the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative—just as it’s too early to praise it.
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Paul Krashefski, Broward County Working Across Party Lines
In South Florida, Democratic and Republican county leaders have joined forces on climate change.
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Jim Young / Reuters How Poor Single Moms Survive
Welfare reform has driven many low-income parents to depend more heavily on family and friends for food, childcare, and cash.
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Paul Krashefski, Broward County Adapting to Climate Change
The Earth is warming, but Washington is frozen, so localities keep finding new ways to muddle through.
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Stephanie Keith / Reuters Do Millennials Make for Bad Employees?
The generation has been called lazy, entitled, and narcissistic. Their bosses beg to differ.
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Jamal Saidi / Reuters Paid Leave for Dads: A Feminist Issue
Workplaces are (slowly) becoming more equal. Yet many have policies that all but ensure that households will stay stuck in the past.
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Courtesy of the city of Dubuque A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall
That’s the danger in Dubuque, where city officials are working to divert the floodwaters from streets and basements.
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Eric Risberg / Reuters How Zoning Laws Exacerbate Inequality
Such laws aren’t just a headache for developers, economists believe. They’re bad for (nearly) everyone.
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Thomas J. O'Halloran / Library of Congress Should Computers Decide Who Gets Hired?
When it comes to reviewing job applications, humans are relatively bad at selecting the best humans.
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Alana Semuels / The Atlantic How to Decimate a City
Syracuse thought that by building a giant highway in the middle of town it could become an economic powerhouse. Instead, it got a bad bout of white flight and the worst slum problem in America.
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Ross D. Franklin / AP The Futility of State-Level Efforts to Keep Refugees Out
If governors really want to deter Syrian migrants, they should just make their states terrible places to live and work.
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Paul Joseph / Flickr Being White Makes It a Lot Easier to Get a Home Loan in Baltimore
That's a problem in a city where 63 percent of residents are black.
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Don Ryan / AP Are Hispanics Finding a Better Life in the U.S.?
Compared to other immigrant groups? No. Compared to their parents? Yes.
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Alana Semuels The Drone Economy
The unmanned-aircraft industry could help to revive a struggling region. But what are the consequences?
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Jon Feinstein / Flickr There Are Plenty of New Apartments Being Built—Just Not Affordable Ones
A surplus of swanky residences means wealthier renters aren't seeing the huge price increases that poorer ones are.
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Alvin Baez / Reuters Why Puerto Rican Statehood Matters So Much Right Now
Six words: the ability to file for bankruptcy.
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Commonspace LLC Dorms for Grownups: A Solution for Lonely Millennials?
In a new model of living, residents will have their own “micro units” built around a shared living space for cooking, eating, and hanging out.
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Ted S. Warren / AP Why Daycare Workers Are So Poor, Even Though Daycare Costs So Much
They can't even afford child care for their own kids.
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Lenny Ignelzi / AP Borrowing While Poor
Upcoming regulation won't fix the underlying problem of payday loans: a lack of access to credit.
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Rick Wilking / Reuters The Candidate Republicans Trust Most on the Economy: Trump
He has promised to “be the greatest jobs president God ever created.” It seems like people believe him.
