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Carlos Barria / Reuters Japan Is No Place for Single Mothers
The divorce rate has jumped 66 percent in recent decades, but women are ill-equipped financially to raise children alone.
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Sean Gallup / Getty The Case for a Millionaire Tax
The Trump administration is poised to slash rates for rich Americans. What about going in the exact opposite direction?
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The Myth of American Universities as Inequality-Fighters
Colleges aren’t doing nearly as much to expand economic opportunity as most people think.
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David J. Phillip / AP How a Disaster’s Economic Impacts Are Calculated
Providing an early estimate of a storm’s costs is generally a pretty rough science, and Harvey is a particularly tough case.
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Jim Salter / AP How St. Louis Workers Won and Then Lost a Minimum-Wage Hike
After a Missouri law took effect on Monday, the wage floor in the city was reduced to $7.70 per hour after three months at $10 per hour—the latest case of a state cracking down on a city that had enacted a progressive policy.
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John Minchillo / AP So, Eclipse Boomtowns, How’d It Go?
“I think I can speak for the rest of the city staff in that we wish there were a way we could host one of these once a year.”
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Jose Luis Gonzalez / Reuters What Would a Better NAFTA Look Like?
As renegotiations on the trade deal begin, some scholars are calling for a rethinking of how such agreements work.
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Harrison McClary / Reuters Restaurants Are the New Factories
Food-service jobs are eating the economy. Maybe that’s not a good thing.
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Tim Boyle / Getty The Decline of the American Laundromat
The retreat of a longtime urban staple marks yet another way cities have changed after an influx of higher-earning residents.
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Amr Dalsh / Reuters How Venice Beach Became a Neighborhood for the Wealthy
... and what that means for affordable housing across the country
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China Stringer Network / Reuters The Limits of 'Made in America' Economics
Trump's widely anticipated steel tariffs are likely to end up hurting the heartland.
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Chris McGrath / Getty The Mystery of Why Japanese People Are Having So Few Babies
Many point to unromantic 20-somethings and women’s entry into the workforce, but an overlooked factor is the trouble young men have in finding steady, well-paid jobs.
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Robert Galbraith / Reuters Privatization Is Changing America's Relationship With Its Physical Stuff
Turning more and more infrastructure projects over to outside companies makes citizens more like customers.
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William Whitehurst / Getty D.C.'s Misguided Attempt to Regulate Daycare
Requiring child-care workers to have college degrees will likely widen the capital’s economic disparities.
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Princeton University Art Museum What on Earth Is Wrong With Connecticut?
Conservatives say the state has a tax problem. Liberals say it has an inequality problem. What it really has is a city problem.
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Jeff Chiu / AP From 'Not in My Backyard' to 'Yes in My Backyard'
Out of a desire for more-equitable housing policy, some city dwellers have started allying with developers instead of opposing them.
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William Thomas Cain / Getty Will Grad Students Lose the Right to Unionize Under Trump?
Last year, students at private universities were granted collective bargaining rights. A reversal may be coming.
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Mark Schiefelbein / John Minchillo / AP / … Will China Save the American Economy?
Though Trump is skeptical of globalization, more investors from overseas are building factories and creating jobs. Will they find the U.S. a hospitable place for business?
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Chris Bergin / Reuters How Factory Closures Doom the Next Generation
Widespread job loss can create financial and emotional stress that prevents children from attending college.
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Beck Diefenbach / Reuters A Billionaire Defends Modern Philanthropy
The founder of LinkedIn talks about how wealthy Americans can use their money to make a difference.
