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Bettman / Getty States With Large Black Populations Are Stingier With Government Benefits
Research suggests that states with homogenous populations are more willing to spend on the safety net than those with higher shares of minorities.
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Rich Pedroncelli / AP Are Pharmaceutical Companies to Blame for the Opioid Epidemic?
Recent lawsuits are asking courts whether the current crisis is comparable to the one over tobacco in the ’90s.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Full Employment: Are We There Yet?
There’s no economic consensus on whether or not the labor market has reached its full potential—or how to judge when it has.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters The Unworkable Math of Trump’s Budget
Economists say the document doesn’t account for the costs of tax cuts and its other policy proposals.
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Alana Semuels / The Atlantic All the Ways Retail's Decline Could Hurt American Towns
As brick-and-mortar stores close, local governments in struggling regions lose much-needed tax revenues.
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Alana Semuels / The Atlantic The Men Who Take 'Women's' Jobs
As employment options shrink in parts of the Midwest, many men who once worked in manufacturing are finding new careers in health care.
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Jason Reed / Reuters The House Gets One Step Closer to Scrapping Dodd-Frank
The House Financial Services Committee passed its version of repeal-and-replace for Wall Street regulation.
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Isaac Brekken / AP The Parts of America Most Susceptible to Automation
No, they’re not in the Rust Belt.
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Charles Krupa / AP Could Small-Town Harvards Revive Rural Economies?
Less-populous places with colleges are thriving, but reproducing that success elsewhere is difficult.
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Bettmann / Getty Where Have All the Black-Owned Businesses Gone?
They once served their communities when others wouldn't, and over the past 30 years, they've practically vanished.
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Gene J. Puskar / AP Why Would Congress Bail Out Miners’ Pensions?
If legislators don’t act by the end of April, miners will lose their health-care benefits. They may soon lose their retirement benefits, too.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters The Toll of Wells Fargo's Account Scandal
The fallout has implications not just for the bank’s reputation, but also for its bottom line.
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Chuck Burton / AP The Saga of North Carolina’s Contaminated Water
The state’s GOP leadership tried to make the state more business-friendly. Now residents are saying their water isn’t safe to drink.
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Alana Semuels / The Atlantic Getting High-School Grads Into the Closed-Off World of Tech
A Silicon Valley program is matching young, lower-income workers with employers eager to diversify their ranks
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Andrew Harnick / AP From Wall Street Lawyer to Wall Street Watchdog
In a recent memoir, a former SEC employee reflects on the agency’s shortcomings.
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Danny Johnston / AP The Predictable Effects of Unpredictable Financial Emergencies
When unexpected expenses arise, few Americans have good options for dealing with them.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Why It’s So Hard to Get Ahead in the South
In Charlotte and other Southern cities, poor children have the lowest odds of making it to the top income bracket of kids anywhere in the country. Why?
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Benoit Tessier / Reuters How Many Robots Does It Take to Replace a Human Job?
A new study looks at how recent technology innovation has affected workers thus far.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Black Americans Are Working More—With Little to Show for It
Despite working more every year, earnings gaps aren’t improving.
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John Minchillo / AP The Problem With Modern Philanthropy
A new book argues that the giving patterns of today’s wealthy may present challenges to the democratic process.
