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Alana Semuels / The Atlantic What a Chicken Wants
Perdue is committing itself to giving its animals better lives. Is this just a smart marketing move or something more?
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Is Snapchat Really Worth $25 Billion?
Maybe.
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John Gress / Reuters The New Rules of Digital Cash
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is bringing in sweeping regulations that cover payment products like Venmo and prepaid debit cards.
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Beth J. Harpaz / AP Loose Tax Laws Aren’t Delaware’s Fault
Sure, it’s a tax haven, but other states’ weak rules are part of America’s enduring tax-evasion problem.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Which Should Americans Be Angrier About: Trump or the Tax Code?
The candidate’s 1995 returns reveal both a flawed system and a man skilled at exploiting it.
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Alana Semuels / The Atlantic The Tiny State Whose Laws Affect Workers Everywhere
Because so many companies are incorporated in Delaware, their cases fall under that state’s law, even when their operations and workforces are based elsewhere.
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Dubassy / Shutterstock Problem at Work? Shame the Boss, On-Air
A morning show in Delaware has emerged as the go-to platform for local Latinos who need help.
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Jim Cole / AP The Millionaires Who Disagree With Trump on Taxes
Tax me more, they say.
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Eddie Keough / Reuters How Bankers Live With Themselves
One man conducted hundreds of interviews to understand the motivation and morality of those in the finance industry.
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John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation A Newly Minted MacArthur Genius on the Financially 'Invisible'
“I wanted to change the world. I didn’t think I was going to do that by being a loan servicer.”
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Alana Semuels / The Atlantic The Epicenter of American Inequality
In Greenwich, Darien, and New Canaan, Connecticut, bankers are earning astonishing amounts of money. Does that have anything to do with the poverty in Bridgeport, just a few exits away?
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Sam Price-Waldman / The Atlantic A Radical Idea: Four City-Dwellers Share All Their Money
Four unrelated adults in a neighborhood of Washington, D.C., have taken the radical step of sharing not just their home and their car but all of their money as well.
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Mike Blake / Reuters The Company That’s Encouraging Americans to Sell Off Shares of Their Houses
A new arrangement offers homeowners and investors a chance to make money off of existing home equity. Is it a good idea?
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Seth Wenig / AP Trump's Latest Economic Plan: New Promises, Same Old Problems
The candidate vowed to add 25 million jobs and slash taxes while providing major economic growth. This is not very realistic.
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Wilfredo Lee / AP Tiny Sliver of Good News Only a Reminder of the Economy’s Overall Terribleness
Still, declining poverty numbers and rising incomes are something to cheer.
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Janerik Henriksson / AP Why So Few American Economists Are Studying Inequality
In recent years, it’s been European scholars who have written the blockbuster papers on the topic.
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John G. Zehmer / Wikimedia The Promise and Challenge of Moving Money Into Black-Owned Banks
Can an influx of cash and a wave of account openings help smaller-scale financial institutions serve their communities?
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Julie Jacobson / AP What Would It Take to Save the Middle Class?
Drastic change
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Brian Snyder / Reuters An Unprecedented Faculty Lockout
Long Island University told 400 professors and union members not to come back to work when the school year started.
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Mel Evans / AP Fewer Unions, Lower Pay for Everybody
If organized labor were as strong today as it was in the late 1970s, nonunion men without a high-school diploma would be earning 9 percent more, according to a new study.
