The Chinese leader’s campaign is partly aimed at addressing rising costs of education, healthcare and housing—and if successful could strengthen his expected bid to seek a third term.

Some places lift children out of poverty. Others trap them there. Now cities are trying to do something about the difference.

Roughly a quarter of American adults (23%) say they haven’t read a book in whole or in part in the past year.

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

Sociologists of education frequently draw on the cultural capital framework to explore the ways in which educational institutions perpetuate inequality in schools and the larger society. However, the...

As the pandemic took hold, more than 1 million children did not enroll in local schools. Many of them were the most vulnerable: 5-year-olds in low-income neighborhoods.

There's been a lot of debate in the last few years about meritocracy, and it's become even more pressing in light of the pandemic. If essential workers are "essential", are they really less meritorious than a banker or accountant? On this episode, we'll be joined by Adrian Wooldridge, political editor at The Economist and author of the new book "The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World". He'll be making the nuanced case in favor of meritocracy, and we'll hear the other side on our next episode.

During the first seven months of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 175,000 crowdfunding campaigns were established in the US for coronavirus-related ne…

The nation’s 9.8 million retail workers accounted for 6.3% of the U.S. labor force.

Black Americans face gaps in representation, wages, education, business ownership, and more. This comprehensive report looks at multiple economic realities Black Americans face and the opportunities in closing these racial gaps.

Key takeaways: At the beginning of the pandemic, we showed that not everybody can work from home, with the ability to telework differing enormously by race and ethnicity. As with the pre-pandemic period, there remains a large disparity between the share of Black and Hispanic workers who are able to telework during the pandemic, compared…

The McKinsey American Opportunity Survey spotlights views on economic opportunity, the obstacles they face, and the path ahead to create a more inclusive economy.

A collection of essays documenting the financial challenges Millennials face.

Today’s economic conditions are not just holding Millennials back. They are stratifying them, leading to unequal experiences within the generation as well as between it and other cohorts.

A decade of academic researchers and federal data reports show large and growing education inequality in America between the rich and poor.

Over the last two decades, the share of U.S. children under age 18 who live in a multigenerational household (with a grandparent and parent) has increased dramatically. Yet we do not know whether this increase is a recent phenomenon or a return to earlier levels of coresidence. Using data from the d …