What’s Marriage Got to Do With Poverty?
A new report argues that promoting marriage could reduce poverty in America. Is there any truth to that?
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Winners, Losers, and the Business of Buyouts
On Fairway Market and the perils of growth, when improvisation is replaced for efficiency and predictability.
What Does Half of the U.S. Population Have in Common With the 20 Richest People?
They hold the same amount of wealth.
No, Poverty Is Not a Mysterious, Unknowable, Negative-Spiral Loop
But that's what David Brooks called it, ignoring the lack of money that is its proximate cause.
The Destruction of Workers’ Compensation
Over the past 25 years, the giant meatpacking company Tyson Foods has taken a lead in pushing for changes in workers’ comp in state after state—often to the detriment of workers.
Mexico’s National Soda Tax Is Raising Prices
But whether Mexicans will drink less soda in the long term—and whether a similar law in Berkeley, California, will work at all—remains to be seen.
The International Postal System Is Profoundly Broken—and Nobody Is Paying Attention
An obscure United Nations body is making mail from developing nations unnaturally cheap—and hurting e-commerce, manufacturing, and postal systems in industrialized countries. The Universal Postal Union is a secretive backroom club, but its missteps were born from the highest of ideals.
Seattle Is the Next Detroit
Henry Ford and Detroit radically changed the economic geography of the world. Now, Jeff Bezos and Seattle are poised to do the same.
A Better Measure of the Return on Investment America Gets From Funding Research
Follow the people, not the papers.