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The gap between workers and C.E.O.s widened during the pandemic as public companies granted top executives some of the richest pay packages ever.

Sharing compensation data has become an annual tradition at Microsoft during this time of year

Gusty winds, low humidity and dry conditions have pushed federal forecasters to issue an “extremely critical” wildfire weather warning for northwestern Colorado, the first such notice in 15 years.

The sharp drop in water levels could lead to a water shortage declaration in August.

A megadrought that's more severe than some of the worst droughts of the past 1,200 years, is underway in a 10-state region of the Southwest.

The number of earthquakes rattling the U.S. shale patch is growing exponentially as producers pump massive amounts of dirty water from their oil and gas wells back underground.

The total balance sheet for households and nonprofits rose to $136.9 trillion in the first quarter, a 3.8% gain from the end of 2020

Prices were .06% higher in May than they were in April.

“It turns out everything has been overwhelming. And there’s no shaking it.”

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I'm tracking sales for many local markets.  Note that sales slumped at the beginning of the pandemic, so the year-over-year increase in sale...

From CoreLogic: Nationwide Homeowner Equity Gains Hit $1.9 Trillion in Q1 2021, CoreLogic Reports CoreLogic® ... today released the Homeo...

The U.S. fertility rate hit a record low in 2020 — just as it did in 2019, and 2018. Although the COVID-19 pandemic seems to have accelerated this decline, the …

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Death toll at 749, on course to pass high mark set in 2018, as pollution including nutrient runoff kills seagrass

Rising costs at its factories — an accelerating trend, new data showed — could trickle into the rest of the world economy.

The new estimate reflects pandemic-relief efforts for borrowers and low repayment rates on the government’s $1.6 trillion portfolio.

Lower home appraisal values contribute to the wealth gap between white communities and communities of Black and Latinx people.

The number of workers holding two or more jobs has increased from 1996 to 2018. The Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics tracks the growth.

Scientists from the University of Graz (Austria), Skoltech and their colleagues from the US and Germany have developed a new neural network that can reliably detect coronal holes from space-based observations. This application paves the way for more reliable space weather predictions and provides valuable information for the study of the solar activity cycle. The paper was published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.

Scholars offer tips to help news outlets report accurately on scientists' work and hold the scientific community accountable for its failures.

Researchers urge newsrooms to present scientific errors and academic journal retractions as part of science's self-correction process.

Stephen Vaisey, Kevin Kiley Sociological Science March 22, 2021 10.15195/v8.a5 Abstract Recent work argues that changes in people's responses to the same question over time should be thought of as reflecting a fixed baseline subject to temporary local influences, rather than durable changes in respo...

We’re not going to find a set of fixed divisions that works across arenas — such as social attitudes, family behavior, and economic status.

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The inequalities Black women face have been a drag on both their bank accounts and on long-term economic growth for everyone– and were only exacerbated by COVID-19.

OK boomer, you may have money, but you’re not spending it.