Economics

Without broad participation, science will lose its economic power and legitimacy.

• By Michael White

Corporations can help apply positive pressure for social change, but their profit motives should make us wary of letting them displace moral leaders.

• By Rick Paulas

Because they can.

• By Rick Paulas

Some new anti-poverty programs are encouraging participants to form connections with others who are going through similar life challenges, offering success through companionship.

• By Dwyer Gunn

Puerto Rico's health crisis was 100 years in the making.

• By Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza

The Regulatory Accountability Act would subject the rule-making process to red tape.

• By Rick Paulas

With their newfound spare time in the post-war era, many Americans joined clubs and started attending meetings that rapidly changed political parties in the United States.

• By Seth Masket

Americans will hurt themselves financially to avoid benefiting the other political party.

• By Tom Jacobs

With crowdfunding, even though lots of people can make a big difference, it still tends to be people with money to give who will be the ones giving it.

• By Virginia Pelley

Fuel shortages linked to the two recent hurricanes hindered evacuation and now recovery, highlighting our dependency on a fragile resource.

• By Laura Bliss

For a number of cities that the Trumps said they had deals in, there is no evidence of deals at all.

• By Matt Drange, Alan Huffman & Derek Kravitz

The practice, called dynamic pricing, is intended to ration scarce goods and services, but it primarily harms consumers by making it easier for companies to fleece them.

• By Ramsi Woodcock

Poor planning didn't just aggravate the area's housing problem: it helped create the Valley's growing empathy gap.

• By Daniel Harris

Universities need corporations for research funding, and the political will for an alternative solution is limited.

• By Rick Paulas

For Labor Day, a selection of our most recent stories on the American worker.

• By Varun Nayar

Housing, as a social policy, is something that's been litigated—and re-litigated—for decades, and quite vigorously so.

• By Maria Elkin

LuLaRoe sellers are complaining that, in some cities, they're vying with too many competitors.

• By Francie Diep

It seems that overall drug spending is still on the rise because of the skyrocketing price of new, brand-name drugs.

• By Charles Ornstein & Katie Thomas

Items covered by measuring national income get plenty of attention, while those not within this rigid framework often fall by the wayside. Case in point: unpaid care work.

• By Daniel Mahler

Fines for companies have risen over the last 25 years, but the number of prosecutions has remained roughly the same, according to information compiled by a University of Virginia law professor and his research team.

• By Rick Paulas

These transactions illustrate the unique advantages that real estate developers like Trump have when passing down valuable assets between generations.

• By Derek Kravitz, Cezary Podkul & Will Parker

Donald Trump's supporters crowed when leaked pages of his 2005 return showed he paid a hefty amount of taxes. But the returns for the following years, which remain secret, likely include some hefty refunds of that payment.

• By Allan Sloan

House Republicans have passed their answer to 2010's Dodd-Frank Act, and it's poised to slash the financial protections offered to consumers in the wake of the Great Recession.

• By Morgan Baskin