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Unlike other age groups, 16- to 24-year-olds haven’t recovered the job losses they suffered during the Great Recession. Spurring investment and growth are key to getting them back to work.
Food assistance – like SNAP benefits – can have far-ranging impacts on a person’s health and well-being.
Republicans are hoping to eliminate or at least defang the only federal agency tasked solely with protecting consumers from financial abuses. What would we miss if they succeed?
Instead, we need to burn the entire system of financial regulation to the ground and replace it with something that supports investing the way it’s done today.
‘Rural America’ is a deceptively simple term for a remarkably diverse collection of places. Understanding – and improving – these parts of the country is critical for all Americans.
The current US economic expansion is nearly the third-longest since the 1850s, making a recession likely in 2017. It’s time to get ready.
Although the economy added jobs for a 72nd month – the longest streak since WWII – growth remains sluggish. Two economists argue it’s up to lawmakers and the next president to pick up the slack.
Although the Fed delayed raising rates this month, it has signaled it intends to wean the U.S. economy off its unprecedented monetary stimulus. Now the question is whether Congress will take the handoff.
Statistics on black student graduation rates don’t reveal the complete picture: at highly selective colleges and universities, black student graduation rates range from 88 percent to 96 percent.
Falling homeownership rates, stagnant wages and diminishing retirement savings mean that for more and more Americans, the middle-class dream is slowly dying – if it’s not already gone.
Markets have been on a rocky ride all year on concerns another recession looms. Here are a few lessons we can learn from the last one.
Yet another dramatisation of the events surrounding the financial crisis that leaves a sour taste and a questionable moral lesson.
“First, do no harm”. It’s not clear that European countries even got that right as they navigated their way through the aftermath.
Research shows baby booms are generally bad news for the economy – at least for the boom’s babies.
What happened to “a penny saved is a penny earned?”
It’s not just Greece and poor economic performance that are threatening the future of Europe as we know it.
Observers may be quick to declare social trends “good” or “bad” for families, but such conclusions are rarely justified. What’s good for one family – or group of families – may be bad for another. And…
The subprime crisis and the subsequent failure of Lehman Brothers came as such a shock – and the repercussions were so severe that when the time came to mount a response, policy makers were as surprised…
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