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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP Steve Mnuchin Is 'Not Worried at All' About Machines Displacing American Workers
Few would agree with him.
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Alana Semuels / The Atlantic Is Economic Despair What's Killing Middle-Aged White Americans?
Two Princeton economists elaborate on their work exploring rising mortality rates among certain demographics.
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Arnd Wiegmann / Reuters Maybe the Economy Isn't the Reason Why So Many American Men Aren't Working
Many experts have blamed a poor job market, but new research indicates that an overlooked cause may be poor health.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters The Stock Market’s Biggest Decline Since Trump’s Election
The president has touted the rally as evidence of success. What does this drop mean?
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Charles Krupa / AP Why Black Families Struggle to Build Wealth
It’s harder for African Americans to climb the economic ladder, and to sustain their progress.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters How Trump's Budget Would Impact Cities' Poorest Residents
Programs that help low-income Americans are not among the administration’s priorities in its just-released budget.
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Paul Sancya / AP The Steady Destruction of America’s Cities
Peter Moskowitz’s new book on gentrification outlines how local governments cede their power over residents’ lives to private interests.
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Mike Blake / Reuters The Future of the Department of Labor Under Trump
David Weil, an Obama appointee who headed up DOL's wage-and-hour division, reflects on the previous administration and assesses the early days of the current one.
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Reuters When Factory Jobs Vanish, Men Become Less Desirable Partners
Declines in manufacturing employment are shaping the structure of the American family.
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Alana Semuels / The Atlantic The Downsides of 'Efficiency'
Company mergers led to plant closures in this small town, illustrating how what’s good for consumers can often be bad for communities.
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Tony Avelar / AP When Robots Take Bad Jobs
Maybe it’s a good thing the trucking industry is ripe for automation.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters Why #DeleteUber and Other Boycotts Matter
Even when a relatively small number of people participate
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Courtesy of the Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room – Charlotte … ‘Segregation Had to Be Invented’
During the late 19th century, blacks and whites in the South lived closer together than they do today.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Why the Puzder Nomination Fell Apart
The fast-food mogul faced opposition from both liberal and conservative groups, though for different reasons.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Americans Are Putting Off Medical Treatments Because They Can't Pay
A new study looks at how people cope with unplanned health-care expenses.
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Bettmann / Getty Images How Immigrants Have Contributed to American Inventiveness
Fields with more foreign-born inventors see a bump in patents, which leads to economic growth.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump Begins to Chip Away at Banking Regulations
Justifying his latest executive order, he said that "so many people, friends of mine, with nice businesses” had trouble getting loans.
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Anne Kitzman / zhu difeng / Shutterstock / … America’s Great Divergence
A growing earnings gap between those with a college education and those without is creating economic and cultural rifts throughout the country.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP President Trump, Job Creator?
Companies have announced a spate of new domestic investments and jobs in recent weeks. And the new president has taken credit.
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Mike Segar / Reuters How Money From Slave Trading Helped Start Columbia University
The historian Eric Foner describes how profits from the slave trade helped fund the school formerly named King’s College.
