Recession

But progress on some measures has slowed.

• By Dwyer Gunn

Beware of his boasting—if it's accurate, we may all be in trouble.

• By Tom Jacobs

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

• By Alana Massey

Armed conflict and economic recession in the Middle East brought an unexpected decline in air pollution, researchers say.

• By Nathan Collins

In Greece, there's a link between a weakened economy and mental health.

• By Max Ufberg

It seems certain that the political economy textbooks of the future will include a chapter on the experience of Greece in 2015.

• By Martin Hart-Landsberg

Public sector job creation might be lagging because of anti-black sentiment.

• By Noah Berlatsky

A look at how marriage, co-habitation, domestic violence, and birth rates were influenced by the economic struggles of the 2000s.

• By Philip N. Cohen

Casino operators are changing blackjack payouts to give the house an even greater advantage. Is this a sign that Vegas is on its way back from the recession, or that the Strip’s biggest players are trying to squeeze some more cash out of visitors before the well runs dry?

• By Chris Opfer

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

• By Martin Hart-Landsberg

New research finds socioeconomic conditions impact the type of songs that become hits, but in opposite ways for pop and country music.

• By Tom Jacobs

Seventy-five years after its first publication date, The Grapes of Wrath is still a staple in most American classrooms. Is that because we haven’t yet written anything that does a better job of portraying the devastation of not having enough?

• By Anna Clark

And why you can expect more off-color and out-of-touch commentary like Tom Perkins’ op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that warned of a “Progressive Kristallnacht.”

• By Eric Horowitz

Why the next few years will look—unfortunately—a lot like the last few years.

• By Martin Hart-Landsberg

Production of cultural goods and services took a huge hit with the recession, and has been slow to rebound.

• By Tom Jacobs

Historically, people in the places hardest hit by recessions pack up and move to greener pastures. But not this time. Why?

• By Jim Russell

Something so simple can tell us so much about who we value and why.

• By Lisa Wade

Consumer spending is up, but we still have far fewer jobs than when the recession started.

• By Martin Hart-Landsberg

New research finds that anxiety caused by the 2008 economic crash led many mothers to switch to a less-nurturing parenting style.

• By Tom Jacobs

Globalization favors open networks, people who can do business with each other on a minimal amount of trust, and avoids closed networks, the parochial neighborhoods that only look out for their own.

• By Jim Russell

How are young adults coping with a weak job market?

• By Lucia Mutikani

New research attributes more than 10,000 suicides and up to a million cases of depression to the Great Recession.

• By Kate Kelland

While the rest of the rich world stumbled from crisis to crisis, Australia’s economy has steadily grown. Is the nation just blessed by geography—or have its leaders figured out something we haven’t?

• By Mark Thirlwell

The Obama administration wants the sequester to hurt immediately so the public will clamor for its reversal. But will this gambit work? Probably not.

• By David Dayen