Chris Gilliard grew up with racist policing in Detroit. He sees a new form of oppression in the tech we use every day.

Driving kills as many Americans each year as guns do. Experts say that’s preventable.

Rent paid as a share of income is forecast to rise beyond 30% by December for the typical U.S. renter, which is considered housing burdened.

Here is an initial look at the prime age (25 to 54) participation rate. The first graph shows the prime age participation rate since 1948....

iBuyers were part of 1% of all U.S. home transactions in Q2, with homeowners using an iBuying service to sell more than 15,000 homes.

Research shows an overwhelming majority of Americans say they aren’t working in their dream job.

The pandemic keeps changing, but these principles can guide your thinking through the seasons to come.

“Our state literally shrunk in 2020,” said Dr. Scott Harris, the state’s health officer.

This report examines attitudes and views of parents as children head back to school amidst the rise in COVID-19 cases due to the delta variant. Nearly half of parents of children ages 12-17, who ar…

“This is not normal. This is not healthy.”

Lawyers from top accounting firms do brief stints in the Treasury Department, with the expectation of big raises when they return.

CR Note: Back in November, housing economist Tom Lawler wrote The Dismal Demographics of 2020 . Here is an update from Tom Lawler: Updat...

What is happening? Why? And what will happen.

Canadian household indicators are showing their debt problems are rapidly resurfacing. Statistics Canada (Stat Can) data shows the ratio of household debt to disposable income surged in Q2 2021. This measure indicates debt is growing faster than the rate of income. Debt as a ratio of income has actually never seen such fast annual growth […]

The Department of Housing and Urban Development disproportionately sells homes in flood-prone areas, NPR finds. Housing experts warn that this can lead to big losses for vulnerable families.

Western housing shortages do not just prevent many from ever affording their own home. They also drive inequality, climate change, low productivity growth, obesity, and even falling fertility rates.

Competition is easing as homebuyers grow tired of sky-high asking prices and the housing market enters its typical seasonal slowdown.

Despite the immigrant mortality advantage and the increasing share of the population born abroad, relatively little is known about how immigration has…

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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.

Matt, Dara, Jerusalem, and German use Matt’s last Tuesday episode to discuss life expectancy in the US. They explore paternalistic policy decisions, the misnomer of “deaths of despair,” and the longevity of The Weeds. US life expectancy is compared to that of European and Asian nations, and the US numbers are disaggregated and examined up close.

For decades, the law has sought to restrain nursing homes from trying to control the behavior of dementia patients with antipsychotic drugs, which are known to have adverse health effects.

From the BLS : The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.3 percent in August on a seasonally adjusted basis af...

Nature Human Behaviour - Using a large dataset of workers and technology use from before and after the COVID-19 pandemic, Yang et al. find that firm-wide remote work caused the collaboration...

Fear and deception are just a two roots of the misinformation problem that can have serious consequences. Here's how you can ask people to stop sharing it -- including understanding their intentions, softening your approach and being prepared.