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Putting the Unemployed Back to Work
A Chicago nonprofit is upending the typical model of job placement by focusing first on what businesses need.
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Robert Galbraith/Reuters Google's Other Big Research Project: Curbing Its Own Prejudice
Even for a company that's trying to produce driverless cars and "solve" mortality, getting employees to overcome their own biases is a challenge.
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voodooangel/Flickr The Very Real Hardship of Unpredictable Work Schedules
The 17 percent of workers who deal with erratic scheduling tend to be those who can afford instability the least.
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Alana Semuels/The Atlantic When Tax Credits Are About More Than Money
A new study finds that the EITC can have emotional and psychological benefits for low-income Americans.
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National Journal Goldman Sachs' Plan to Save Struggling Small Businesses
A family printing business in eastern Kentucky was struggling after coal's decline. Then Goldman Sachs sent the CFO to business school.
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Why Is It So Hard to Find Jobs for Disabled Workers?
Disability Insurance provides a much-needed safety net for nine million Americans, but basic structural mean that many never work again.
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MorBCN/Flickr Helping the Unemployed Create Their Own Jobs
A New York state program teaches the jobless how to become entrepreneurs, while still collecting benefits.
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RedJar/Flickr Where the White People Live
How self-segregation and concentrated affluence became normal in America
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From Unemployed to Small-Business Owner
How a New York state program helps out-of-work people start businesses while still collecting unemployment insurance.
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Alana Semuels/The Atlantic Imagining a Post-Coal Appalachia
Can young people help the region thrive again?
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Grassroots Support Groups for the Unemployed
How a New Jersey man created an extensive network of local meet-ups for out-of-work people to help one another.
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Erik De Castro/Reuters Rich People Are Great at Spending Money to Make Their Kids Rich, Too
The poor spend relatively more on what will keep them alive, because they must, and the rich spend more on what will keep them rich, because they can.
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Chris/Flickr What Education Can and Can't Do for Economic Inequality
A new study looks at whether or not a college degree can chip away at income disparities.
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Adrees Latif/Reuters How Apple Pay Gets People to Part With More of Their Money
Mobile-payment services are the next step in dulling the agony of spending.
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Andrea Comas/Reuters How the Recession Changed Long-Term Unemployment
This downturn and recovery have been different than others, and workers of all types have suffered.
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Lucy Nicholson/Reuters What Went Wrong in the March Jobs Report?
The economy created just 126,000 new positions in March—barely half the predicted total—and the sinking price of oil may be to blame.
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Reuters For-Profit Colleges: Here to Stay
And that may not be such a bad thing after all.
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Shutterstock 2.6 Million Americans Are Unemployed. Do They Need a Self-Esteem Boost?
MIT researchers believe the long-term unemployed need to treat the emotional bruises that can come from looking for jobs.
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Stuck With a House That Can't Be Sold
Even though the housing market is improving, some owners with troubled properties won't see relief anytime soon.
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The City That Believed in Desegregation
Integration isn't easy, but Louisville, Kentucky, has decided that it's worth it.
