Digital Gems

It’s past time to subsidize child care in America

Research shows that only half of Americans in their 30s earn more than their parents did at the same age. A few decades ago, nearly all adults did.

The 2020 Census shows that, when looking at the 2010-2020 decade, many major cities grew faster than the previous decade and most registered increased racial diversity.

An Inquirer analysis found that Philadelphia’s racial segregation remains high, and the pace of desegregation has slowed.

The future of work is a pyramid scheme, where every person sells his favorite person to the next person.

Major companies like Amazon, Adidas, and Visa are hiring for social-savvy titles.

Austin is the top beneficiary of tech-related migration in the past 12 months, according to data from Microsoft Corp.’s LinkedIn profiles. Nashville and Charlotte also saw noteworthy migration rates.

Silicon Valley may be the world’s prominent tech hub. These global cities show why its grip on superiority is gradually slipping away.

PlantPaper's unbleached, toxin-free, brown-hued toilet paper is reckoning with cultural attitudes about the color white.

Heartland Forward releases new report on entrepreneurship across the country with first-of-its-kind calculator The metrics underlying America’s Entrepreneurial States: Supporting Entrepreneurs to Help Drive the Economy show that when it comes to creating and supporting entrepreneurial ecosystems, the coasts win and the heartland lags. Our country was built on the American Dream. Even today –… Continue reading America’s Entrepreneurial States: Supporting Entrepreneurs to Help Drive the Economy

Options trading by short-term investors is surging, and their zeal is translating to bigger swings in individual stocks and fueling momentum behind many rallies.

A review of papers published in the Journal of Economic Development shows big disparities in which countries get studied, and by whom.

Heatmaps showing different kinds of inequality, with code.

Even a tiny bit of gender bias can change the trajectory of a career.

Some comments on an interview with Ivy Zelman

The dangerous allure of using easy anecdotes to explain complex problems

During the pandemic, teenage girls took on more caregiving at home, extra shifts at work and the burden of organizing racial justice protests. In many instances, it upended their lives.

The Little Lad who love berries and cream is now a TikTok celebrity, as the app moves away from conventional content.

Even for micro businesses, how things get made can be shaped by macro trends and geopolitics. Now small-scale producers are taking back control.