Digital Gems

We summarize five studies on issues facing the trucking workforce, including pay, working conditions and whether the labor market is broken.

Reading Time: 3 minutes At our recent digital drop-in, Digital Tools and Mental Health for the Latine/Latinx Community, we centered on the mental health…

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The pandemic led to unprecedented growth in US ecommerce sales. Even as sales growth returns to somewhat normal levels in 2021, total sales will far exceed our pre-pandemic estimates.

The e-commerce surge is driving a new paradigm for packaging. Find out how companies that produce corrugated boxes and other packaging materials are expanding their industrial real estate footprint to meet increased demand.

Women are increasingly playing the role of best friend, lover, and on-call therapist to their male partners.

‘We are in uncharted territory.’

Drivers told Motherboard they're never coming back because of horrific working conditions before and during the pandemic.

Companies like Facebook and Uber say they’re supporting small businesses while squashing them.

Leap in malnutrition during Covid shows urgent need to overhaul global food systems, report warns

Urban heat Climate equity Environmental justice

A new report reveals which U.S. metropolitan areas have the highest percentage of homes valued at $1 million or more.

The generation has possessed most real estate wealth for two decades.

More than a century of temperature data shows much of the U.S. Northeast is in the grip of extreme warming, with winter heating up more quickly than other seasons.

Many affluent retirees are reluctant to spend their savings, calling into question advisers' assumptions about retirement spending.

Federal regulators concluded that the risk of developing the syndrome was low, and that the benefits of the vaccine still strongly outweigh it.

DALLAS (AP) — An unopened copy of Nintendo’s Super Mario 64 has sold at auction for $1.56 million. Heritage Auctions in Dallas said that the 1996 game sold Sunday, breaking its previous record price for the sale of a single video game.

After consuming magic mushrooms in Basel, Switzerland, I ran into Albert Hofmann, the chemist who catalyzed the psychedelic era.

According to NPD, two out of five adult females and three out of ten adult males no longer fit into last year’s clothing sizes; snacking and fitness play a role.