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Moms say their weight-loss drugs had a trickle-down effect — making their entire families healthier
Some people on weight-loss drugs say their treatment is lifting up the health of their entire famil…
Emily Farache
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Restaurants and hotels were helping power the booming job market. Now, they're barely hiring.
The leisure and hospitality industry is adding fewer jobs each month than it was a few years ago.
Madison Hoff
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Taylor Swift's economic clout has now come for Europe
Over the last year, Swift's Eras Tour injected billions into the US economy. She could do the same …
Katie Balevic,Lauren Edmonds
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A working-class immigrant neighborhood in Queens banned cars along a major road. The new park is a 'superhighway of kids and families and neighbors.'
Jackson Heights, Queens, was the 'epicenter of the epicenter' of COVID-19. Now, it's a model for re…
Eliza Relman
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Over half of Gen Z and millennials are living paycheck to paycheck — and college is one of the first things they're cutting from their budgets
A new Deloitte report found that the cost of living is a key reason millennials and Gen Z are choos…
Ayelet Sheffey,Juliana Kaplan
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Top US economists argue millions of Americans must lose their jobs to stop inflation. They couldn't have it more wrong.
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and Fed Chair Jerome Powell cling to a fix that's backward …
Paul Constant
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China's attempts to revive its economy could cause a 'sugar high' that pushes US inflation higher, new research says
China is encouraging investments in its manufacturing sector. And if they pay off, it would put "me…
Aruni Soni
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Why I gave up on getting ahead
My drive to succeed helped lift me out of the lower-middle class. But it came at a terrible price.
Tanmoy Goswami
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The pandemic forced many women to leave their jobs. Hybrid work is bringing them back.
Women are rapidly rejoining the labor force, boosting the economy.
Allie Kelly
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I used resume spammers to apply for 120 jobs. Chaos ensued.
AI bots are turning job searches into a technological arms race
Aki Ito
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American workers would make more than $20 an hour if minimum wage kept pace with productivity, an economist says
A higher minimum wage would supercharge the economy, says Dean Baker, as workers would have more mo…
Paul Constant
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Putin appears unstoppable, but even he 'doesn't know where the tolerance of the Russian people lies,' an economic historian said
Military spending has reached 40% of Russia's budget, overshadowing social spending.
Huileng Tan
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Economic policy is full of false assumptions that benefit the wealthy and undercut average Americans — just look at how CEOs are paid
Theorists say paying CEOs in stock options incentivizes them to act like shareholders and boost the…
Paul Constant
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Billionaires are collectively adding $2.7 billion to their fortunes daily — and their growing share of wealth shows trickle-down doesn't work
"Trickle-down has not only failed. Trickle-down was always a lie," Nabil Ahmed, Oxfam America's dir…
Juliana Kaplan,Madison Hoff
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'Opportunity zones' meant to boost poor communities did little more than give the rich another tax loophole — proof that trickle-down economics doesn't work
Brookings' economist David Wessel said more funding from Trump's 2017 tax bill went to already-weal…
Paul Constant
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These charts show how much traffic has plunged in the Suez and Panama canals — and the potential impact on inflation
The number of vessels passing through the Suez and Panama Canal have dropped by 50%, Apollo's chief…
Aruni Soni
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Biden's White House says the GOP's 'MAGA trickle-down economic plan' will increase student-loan payments and raise inflation for Americans
Ahead of the midterms, the White House said the GOP's plan will "raise costs and make inflation wor…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Biden says he's 'tired of trickle down' leaving out the middle class: 'Just pay your fair share'
At a CNN town hall, President Joe Biden said tax breaks and benefits for the wealthy don't "trickle…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Gen Z will change capitalism as we know it
Gen Z is torn between capitalism and socialism. We asked experts what changes the generation could …
Jacob Zinkula
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The workplace is transforming because workers want good jobs, not just jobs
The workers of America rediscovered the idea of a good job during the pandemic.