Digital Gems

Peak commute time has long ruled our lives, our cities, our tax dollars. But it doesn’t have to.

The City Observatory is a study of modern-day cities and urban development practices.

Naomi Osaka advocated for her well-being at work. Here’s how you can, too.

Here’s how to help them — and yourself — while coming to terms with the split.

The painful feelings you avoid grow twisted in the dark. By facing your sorrows and struggles you can take back your life

More than 2 million women have left the workforce because of the cost and effort of caring for children and older family members during the pandemic. In this episode of EPIDEMIC, we’ll hear why the United States is the only wealthy nation not to offer comprehensive support to parents, why caregiving is a critical part of American infrastructure, and what’s at stake if parents and caregivers are forgotten.

Nationally, monthly rents are finally growing faster than their pre-COVID rates.

Economic forces and generational preferences are leading to a new kind of housing: subdivisions designed for renters and managed like apartment buildings. What does it mean for suburbia?

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

Women need to sink or swim while below-average men often make it because they played "good politics," new research concludes.

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.

Listen now (20 min) | Micro and macro evidence on the productivity of R&D over time

Childfree individuals choose not to have children, which makes them a distinctive group from parents who have had children, not-yet-parents who plan to have children, and childless indivduals who would have liked to have children. Most research on parental status and psychosocial characteristics has not effectively distinguished childfree individuals from other non-parents or has relied on non-representative samples. In this study, we use a representative sample of 981 Michigan adults to estimate the prevalence of childfree individuals, to examine how childfree individuals differ from parents and other types of non-parents in life satisfaction, political ideology, and personality, and to examine whether childfree individuals are viewed as an outgroup. We find that over a quarter of Michigan adults identified as childfree. After controlling for demographic characteristics, we find no differences in life satisfaction and limited differences in personality traits between childfree individuals and parents, not-yet-parents, or childless individuals. However, childfree individuals were more liberal than parents, and those who have or want(ed) children felt substantially less warm toward childfree individuals than childfree individuals felt toward each other. Given the prevalence of childfree individuals, the risks of their outgroup status, and their potential role in politics as a uniquely liberal group, it is important for demographic research to distinguish the childfree from others and to better understand these individuals.

Most male mammals have little or nothing to do with their kids. Why is our own species different?

The deposit could power 400,000 clean-energy car batteries. There’s just one roadblock: a rare, fragile species of buckwheat, which for a mine might mean extinction.

The structure, called a cantil, holds up the flower-bearing arm of the thale cress, a long-studied species

What consumers have done differently and whether frugality will become frou-frou

Low housing inventory and low interest rates are often factors, but Bank of America’s 2021 Homebuyer Insights Report found that a sense of community and good neighbors are also key priorities for today’s homebuyer.

Note: Remember sales were weak in April and May 2020 due to the pandemic, so the YoY comparison is easy. The CAR reported: California home...

Personal income decreased $3.21 trillion (13.1 percent) in April according to estimates released today by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (tables 3 and 5). Disposable personal income (DPI) decreased $3.22 trillion (14.6 percent) and personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased $80.3 billion (0.5 percent).

Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 6.4 percent in the first quarter of 2021 (table 1), according to the "second" estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the fourth quarter of 2020, real GDP increased 4.3 percent.

On average, creating habits takes about 2 months (66 days), ranging from 18 to 254 days depending on the individual context.

The building at 4950 E. Hampden Ave. had previously been leased by Tony’s Meats and Market and later by Marczyk Fine Foods, but they never moved in.

"Even if we quadruple our wages — nobody's applying."

The estimated scheduled maintenance cost for a light-duty battery-electric vehicle (BEV) totals 6.1 cents per mile, while a conventional internal combustion engine vehicle (ICEV) totals 10.1 cents per mile.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The operator of California's power grid is asking residents to voluntarily conserve power for a few hours Thursday evening as record-breaking heat blankets the West this week. The California Independent System Operator issued a Flex Alert for Thursday from 5 p.m.