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Reuters Is Ending Segregation the Key to Ending Poverty?
Chicago's experiment in relocating poor African American families to rich white suburbs seems to be a success. So why are so few other cities doing the same?
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Brian Snyder/Reuters The Mental and Physical Toll of Student Loans
The mere act of borrowing money for college can be detrimental to health and mind.
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National Journal Compared to Previous Generations, How Bad Are Millennials' Finances?
Research suggests that though they have lower net worth, in some ways today's young adults may not be much worse off than their predecessors.
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Frédéric Delouvee/Flickr Millennials: $2,000 Poorer Than Their Parents Were at the Same Age
More young people are living in poverty and fewer have jobs compared their parents' generation, the Baby Boomers, in 1980.
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Carolyn Kaster/AP The Rich, the Poor, and Whether Tax Policies Live or Die
Obama's failed proposal to eliminate 529 plans illustrates the current state of American taxation: Reforms that benefit the middle class at the expense of the wealthy will never pass.
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Melissa Johnson/Flickr Rural America's Silent Housing Crisis
Accounting for only 20 percent of the population, residents of more isolated areas struggle to find a safe, affordable place to live—and to make anyone else care.
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National Journal The Two-Generation Approach to Fighting Child Poverty
These programs know that giving parents educational and economic assistance helps children as well.
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Eric Thayer/Reuters Young Americans: Yearning for the Suburbs, Stuck in the City
Many Millennials want what their parents had: a spacious, single-family home. But they can't afford to leave their metropolitan lives.
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Sam Wimborne/Reuters Florida Without Oranges
A disease is decimating the citrus industry, leading some to wonder what's next for parts of the Sunshine State.
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Chip East/Reuters Is There a Better Way to Deal With Student-Loan Debt?
More flexibility in repayment plans might benefit both borrowers and lenders.
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Nick Ut/AP Why Can't Unions Keep Up With the Economy?
The national membership rate fell again in 2014 even as job growth surged to a 15-year high.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters The Uber Economy
Is the company destroying full-time work, entrenching us in part-time purgatory, or empowering America's most independent workers?
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National Journal Building a Better, Smarter Daycare
The key to boosting the fortunes of low-income kids may lie in better training for child-care workers.
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Shutterstock Is Airbnb David or Goliath?
Opponents and advocates of the short-term rental platform both say the service is disrupting the country's biggest housing market: New York City.
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Goldman Sachs Invests in Government and Expects to Be Paid Back
Is Wall Street the key to funding perennially cash-strapped social programs in the U.S.?
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Lucas Jackson/Reuters America's Middle Class Is Unlucky
President Obama's tax plan is Piketty-lite, aimed at reversing years of economic rot among America's poorest 50 percent.
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Shannon Stapleton/Reuters How Black Middle-Class Kids Become Poor Adults
Once they've grown up, African American children are more likely than their white counterparts to backslide into a lower economic group.
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Alana Semuels Should Urban Universities Help Their Neighbors?
The housing crisis decimated communities near the University of Chicago, now the school and other organizations are trying to stabilize them.
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Brendan McDermid/Reuters Do People Who Ask for Raises Actually Get Them?
Less than half of workers request higher salaries—and less than half of those requests are successful.
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Rick Wilking/Reuters Should Cities Have a Different Minimum Wage Than Their State?
Debates over wage-requirements are common at the federal and state level, but now more municipalities are joining the conversation in an attempt to address variations in the cost of living.
