Economy

Even a cursory look at the social, environmental, and economic impacts of working from home indicates that even more people could and should be.

• By Alana Massey

A new study predicts some countries might receive an economic boost from climate change—but the U.S. isn’t one of them.

• By Ben DeJarnette

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

• By Travis Kalanick

Workers keep losing ground.

• By Martin Hart-Landsberg

If Boomers shift from executive jobs to caregiving, will Millennials get their baby boom?

• By Alana Massey

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

• By Steven Greenhouse

This isn’t a matter of technology—a service economy by another name is still a service economy.

• By Susie Cagle

Workers of the world unite and retire.

• By Jim Russell

Ancient Israelites and modern voters want to know what you've done for them lately.

• By Seth Masket

It will be hard for someone like Ted Cruz to earn his party's nomination. But if he does, he'll have a decent chance at winning the White House.

• By Seth Masket

While it's clear that many overestimated Ebola's impact, it's hard to draw a direct line from fearful predictions to economic loss.

• By M. Sophia Newman

Waterloo's tech boom went bust, revealing the rise of the intangible economy.

• By Jim Russell

Managed by Q’s success shows that it’s possible to create an on-demand product while serving both employees and clients rather than shorting the former for the benefit of the latter (we’re looking at you, Uber, Lyft, and all the rest).

• By Kyle Chayka

Research shows that the World Economic Forum, a meeting reserved for the one percent, might actually affect the rest of us.

• By Kate Wheeling

Even, a new company that hopes to provide some peace of mind to hourly workers and freelancers, is a paranoiac technology for a time of justifiable economic paranoia.

• By Kyle Chayka

States pay hundreds of thousands of dollars every year to keep each juvenile offender behind bars. A new report calculates that long-term costs of incarceration could add up to $21 billion annually.

• By Lauren Kirchner

The new American economy in three tablespoons of blood, a Walmart gift card, and a former mill town's DNA.

• By Amanda Wilson

For children, the benefits of being born in tough times can outweigh the costs.

• By Tom Jacobs

A tax on excess cash holdings—for corporations as well at high-net-worth individuals—could help spur development.

• By Kyle Chayka

Shipping out to sea on a luxury cruise liner just doesn't seem to fit too well within our current economic or environmental realities.

• By Paul Hiebert

A recent study by the National Employment Law Project gives job creators a failing grade.

• By Martin Hart-Landsberg

We're 16 years from the 15-hour work week envisioned by Keynes, and if anything, we're moving in the opposite direction.

• By Paul Hiebert

It’s hard to overstate just how serious a threat our energy crisis is to every aspect of our current way of life. But the problem is hidden from view by oil and natural gas production numbers that look and feel just fine.

• By Richard Heinberg

The meaning of patience has changed over time, but that hasn't made it any easier to practice.

• By Casey N. Cep