The federal minimum wage's purchasing power has rarely been lower since it created in 1938 as part of the New Deal.
Social media platform Clubhouse is a buzzy Silicon Valley darling, but its core attribute – audio chat – is unlikely…
Whether the next pandemic bailout bill is called relief or stimulus depends on what ails the US economy – and maybe it…
With fewer funds to fall back on, minority-owned enterprises have struggled in the recession. To make things worse, many…
New research suggests there's often a mismatch between how you respond and what the other person wants to hear.
Monthly payments to families with children could lift millions of US children out of poverty.
Misinformation isn't an inevitable product of social media. Proven techniques can help tech companies clean up their…
Women and their careers benefit when men are allowed – and encouraged – by their employers to do more caregiving.
Few middle-class Americans undergoing Chapter 13 bankruptcy blame the government. They portray themselves as hardworking…
A survey of the impact of the first few rounds of coronavirus aid shows that most of those who lost jobs or wages due to…
Cities have long resisted the public demand for street food vendors, but the pandemic may reverse those restrictions for…
Billionaires have carbon footprints hundreds of times higher than the average American. Two scholars tried to put a number…
Researchers are developing ways to lock captured CO2 into cement. It could help rebuild America’s crumbling infrastructure…
The world's most advanced economies will incur half the total costs associated with a failure to vaccinate poorer nations,…
A finance scholar explains what an IPO is, how it works and a new way companies are going public that's winning the…
While support for social services and historically black colleges and universities rose sharply, these donors spent a tiny…
The Biden administration is trying to shore up SNAP, a mainstay of the safety net.
A new study found that while becoming a father gave men more leadership opportunities, becoming a mother diminished them…
Advertisers forked over $5.5 million for a mere 30 seconds of air time during the Super Bowl. Here's Twitter's verdict…
Food production in the US is heavily concentrated in the hands of a small number of large agribusiness companies. That's…