Economics

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Several platforms have seen more demand than ever for all things outdoors.

The Dearborn Public Health Department distributed baby formula to the public Friday morning, yet supplies ran out within an hour due to high demands.

The Dow divisor is a numerical value that is used to calculate the level of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA).

Nebraska athletic director Trev Alberts said on Monday night that the university will not provide balloons to release at Husker football games this fall because of a helium shortage.

The film is expected to bring in between $98–$125 million domestically in its opening weekend.

NEW YORK (AP) — Even when regular workers win their biggest raises in decades, they look minuscule compared with what CEOs are getting.

The move away from daily cleaning gained traction during the pandemic, and industry insiders say it's driven by customer preferences. But others say it has more to do with profit.

Parmigiano Reggiano has used tracking codes for two decades, but now they are going high tech.

US pharmaceutical firm Pfizer said it would sell its patented drugs at cost to 45 low-income countries.

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The most magical place on earth has seen some hefty price hikes. What gives?   From professional sports champions to families everywhere--Disney World has been a destination for the young and young at heart. But as many of those kids have grown older, they've noticed things aren't quite what they used to be when it comes to costs.

How American life was changed by a subsidy that ride-hail companies can no longer afford.

Sitter shortage has parents treating teenagers like VIPs; ‘order anything you want for dinner’

The U.S. companies on the Fortune 500 boast $1.2 trillion in combined profit—but which bring in the best and worst profit per employee?

When I first moved to Dallas, I didn’t rent an apartment. I lived with my friend Kylie’s family. Long-time Dallas natives, they planted roots in one of the nicest, most coveted neighborhoods in Dallas in the mid-1980s – long before the neighborhood had the esteem (and price tag) it has tod

For the first time in history, retail investors’ index fund holdings exceed their holdings in actively-managed funds, according to new numbers from Morningstar Direct.

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Richard Rothstein is a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and a fellow of the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and of the Haas Institute at the University of California (Berkeley). He is the author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America. The book expands upon and provides a national perspective on his recent work that has documented the history of state-sponsored residential segregation, as in his report, The Making of Ferguson. He is the author of Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right (2008) and Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic and Educational Reform to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap (2004). He is also the author of The Way We Were? Myths and Realities of America’s Student Achievement (1998). Other recent books include The Charter School Dust-Up: Examining the Evidence on Enrollment and Achievement (co-authored in 2005); and All Else Equal: Are Public and Private Schools Different? (co-authored in 2003). He welcomes comments at riroth@epi.org.

In the summer of 1967, the simmering unrest in cities across America exploded. In Detroit, tensions between the police and the African-American community rea...

Detroit's Black population today stands at about 78 percent, the highest proportion of any city in the United States.

So how did we get here?

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EconExtra is a series of posts that go beyond the textbook, relating current events and recent developments in economics to content standards, and providing resource suggestions to help you incorporate the current events into your lessons. This post could be tied into any discussion of what constitutes money.    Headlines In its relatively short lifespan, cryptocurrency has already seen several dramatic booms and busts. Why does the crash last week feel a bit different?

Several weeks of overstaffing resulted in wage pressure for Walmart and productivity declines at Amazon.

The Dow fell by more than 1,000 points as retailers' earnings reports reflected difficulty navigating higher prices and supply chain bottlenecks.