The Costs of Financial Isolation
When people don’t talk about their money troubles, their troubles get worse.
Latest
Maxim Shemetov / Reuters Why Were So Many Madoff Victims Jewish?
The trust people tend to feel toward others in the same ethnic, racial, and political groups makes them easy targets for scammers.
Reuters Saving SSDI
As the disability-insurance program’s trust fund runs out of cash, there are new signs of internal reform—but more changes are needed.
Fred Prouser / Reuters Between the World and Me: Saving the Next Generation
Why America’s inner-city youth need not inherit all of the burdens of the past
Lee Celano / Reuters The Nicotine Fix
America’s cigarette addiction may seem to be mostly over. But low-income Americans continue to smoke—and die—at alarming rates. A radical new strategy could help them quit once and for all.
The Atlantic How to Break a National Habit
The demise of America’s cigarette addiction has been greatly exaggerated.
