The 2017 tax cuts put a $10,000 cap on the deduction for state and local taxes. The richest households would see the biggest…
Before the container was standardized, loading and unloading goods was very labor-intensive, inefficient and costly.
A growing number of countries and companies have pledged to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 or earlier. But there’s a…
In 1950, the top 0.01% of earners paid almost 70% of their income in taxes. By 2018, the super-rich paid proportionately…
A large amount of methane emissions come from natural gas infrastructure and landfills – all problems companies know how…
Health researchers hope a new regulation requiring hospitals to post their prices will tame soaring health care costs, but…
CEOs in private industry who have been accused of sexual harassment can cost their companies if they do as New York Gov.…
For the first time in 40 years, the UN General Assembly is convening a global summit of world leaders to talk solely about…
The latest figures offer new evidence that a K-shaped recovery is following the coronavirus recession – which hit the…
Overlapping vaccine mandates at the federal, state and local levels aims to reduce the number of unvaccinated Americans.
Big Tech makes a lot of promises about protecting privacy, but the reality is that using the industry’s products is a…
Larger shares of Asian, Black and Hispanic people are donating to these nonprofits, compared with white donors. They are…
The Taliban have at least five significant potential sources of revenue as they begin to govern Afghanistan again.
In the male-dominated engineering industry, where women represent only about 11% of the workforce, gender influences whom…
A scholar of nutrition opens up with a personal take on food insecurity in America.
Global spending on product placements is expected to top $23 billion in 2021, about a 14% increase over the previous year.
If you see the Tesla Bot as a joke or a harbinger of a dystopian future, you could be missing the real threat, which has…
New study finds that workplace hostility toward motherhood in STEM fields can deter even young, childless women from pursuing…
Three pandemic-related unemployment benefit programs expire on Labor Day, putting millions of mostly low-income families…
Needs will continue in Haiti and New Orleans – and for Afghan refugees – long past the point when most donors will have…