News in Brief How a President Donald Trump Could Kill a Plan to Get You Overtime Pay A rule that could get overtime pay for four million workers is in limbo, and Trump will help… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The Vast Conflicts of Interest in Medicine The way we think about disease “is being subtly distorted” by financial ties, the authors of an editorial… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief A Rare Window Into Life at the Margins In the United States, we are presently furnished more official data on how many people are arrested for… Melissa Gira Grant
News in Brief How Long Will We Be Able to Afford Water? If current trends continue, one-third of Americans could struggle to pay their bills, a new study suggests. By… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Food Stamp Recipients in Seven States Will Now Be Able to Buy Groceries Online Here’s why that may be good for SNAP recipients. By Dwyer Gunn (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images) Last week,… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Puerto Rico Turns to Corey Lewandowski for Help Lobbying His Former Boss The island’s new governor, who’s considered sympathetic to hedge funds and insurers that want it to repay its… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief How Tariffs Hurt the Little Guy A new analysis details the regressive nature of tariffs. By Dwyer Gunn (Photo: Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images) Last… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Working People Are Hurt More by Rising Inequality Than Slow Economic Growth Unless we radically transform our capitalist system, the working class in the United States faces the likelihood of… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Trump’s Treasury Pick Is Really Good at Kicking Elderly People Out of Their Homes When Steven Mnuchin ran OneWest, the bank aggressively and, in some cases, wrongly, foreclosed on elderly homeowners with… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief A Sense of Purpose Yields Financial Rewards People who are guided by an internal compass tend to accumulate more wealth. By Tom Jacobs (Photo: 401(K)… Pacific Standard Staff