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Gene Blythe / AP Do Regulations Really Kill Jobs?
Republicans love to blame the Environmental Protection Agency for some of the country’s economic woes. Is that a fair assertion?
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Enrique Marcarian / Reuters Why Poor People Make Expensive Financial Decisions
Often, the banking options available for low-income Americans are all fundamentally flawed.
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Dylan Martinez / Reuters J.P. Morgan Chase's $55 Million Discrimination Settlement
A claim filed on Wednesday alleges that the bank charged black and Hispanic homeowners higher rates for mortgages, amounting to "tens of millions" of dollars of illegal charges.
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John Gress / Reuters Obama Frames His Economic Legacy
In his farewell address, the outgoing president touted his success and offered warnings for the future.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters How Norwegians and Americans See Inequality Differently
According to a recent study, the former are much less comfortable with the idea of luck determining well-being.
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David Goldman / AP Can the Flaws in Credit Scoring Be Fixed?
Not easily.
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Eli Lilly and Company America Is Still Making Things
Manufacturing is dead. Long live manufacturing.
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Mike Stewart / AP Two Major Credit Reporting Agencies Have Been Lying to Consumers
A CFPB investigation concluded that Transunion and Equifax deceived Americans about the reports they provided and the fees they charged.
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters How to Stop Short-Term Thinking at America’s Companies
U.S. companies are hyper-focused on quarterly earnings. What can be done to push them to invest more in the years and decades ahead?
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters When Women Run Companies
What happens to employees under female leadership?
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP It’s Not About the Economy
In an increasingly polarized country, even economic progress can’t get voters to abandon their partisan allegiance.
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Michael Conroy / AP Indiana’s Medicaid Experiment May Reveal Obamacare’s Future
The state’s health-care system was expanded under the Affordable Care Act. Now, it may serve as a model nationwide.
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MPI10 / MediaPunch / IPX / AP Overdraft Protection Is More Dangerous Than It Sounds
Such fees are billed as a service to consumers, but they do a lot of harm to the very people they purport to help.
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Tony Gutierrez / AP Severe Inequality Is Incompatible With the American Dream
Why extreme wealth makes it hard for people to do better than their parents did
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Andy Manis / AP How to Kill the Middle Class
Strangling public-sector unions in Wisconsin has shrunk teachers’ pay and benefits. Who’s next?
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Jessica Rinaldi / Reuters America's Poor Still Lack Access to Basic Banking Services
In recent years, the Treasury Department has made financial inclusion a priority. What’s to come?
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AJ Marst / AP Why It’s So Hard to Know What to Make of the Carrier Deal
Some of the company’s manufacturing jobs are staying in the U.S. instead of moving to Mexico. But at what cost?
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Gerald Herbert / AP The Future of Housing Segregation Under Trump
The president-elect is skeptical about many of the Obama administration’s attempts to give minorities access to better homes.
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Library of Congress In D.C., White Families Are on Average 81 Times Richer Than Black Ones
Other major cities aren’t much better.
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Paul Sancya / AP Democrats Don’t Have an Easy Answer for the Rust Belt
Restoring prosperity to white, working-class voters isn’t going to happen by gutting past trade deals.
