Economic Way of Thinking

They say it’s because of tariffs. But it could set the business up for a profitable pop if demand is a smidge better than expected....

Young people are investing in making themselves smell nice.

by Rachel Lu

Prime members get free same-day delivery on groceries if they spend $25 or more....

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Maybe the biggest failure in air travel is something we don’t talk about at all. How is it possible that people are being told to show up at the airport 2.5 to 3 hours before their flight, and that isn’t considered a failure of massive proportions?

Homegrown efforts to redo lawns so they need less water typically don't go over well, even when local governments encourage it.

Nestlé is among UK companies taking part in project to ‘design out’ waste by redistributing surplus product

Walk into a government clinic in Lagos on a Monday morning, and you’ll see the real price of “free” healthcare. Even early in the day, the benches are already

Maybe the biggest failure in air travel is something we don’t talk about at all. How is it possible that people are being told to show up at the airport 2.5 to 3 hours before their flight, and that isn’t considered a failure of massive proportions?

In a world where global power is measured by military strength, technological innovation, or cultural influence, it is striking that the European Union,

Since Gretchen Whitmer became governor, Michigan has given $995 million to companies that promised to create 65,000 jobs. They’ve produced 13,000 — a rate of $76,000 per job, a Bridge investigation finds.

The program aims to address the high costs of parenting with cash.

The government will pay families $500 per child until age three to incentivize births.

by Erik W. Matson

A small security ritual adds up to a big economic burden when repeated by millions.

The latest CDC figures show that births per woman in the US slumped to under 1.6 — well below replacement level....

Cutting across language, geography, and culture, one societal trend is beginning to loom larger than any other: falling birth rates....

Streetscapes may be headed for a major makeover.

Waymo’s latest data dump

New federal data shows the fertility rate in the U.S. dropped to an all-time low in 2024 with less than 1.6 kids per woman.

Interactive visualization of technological history

Elon Musk and Donald Trump are fighting in public again....

In 2021-2022, Michigan had one of the highest rates of chronic absenteeism in the country: 38.5%, ranking third behind Alaska and New Mexico.

California lawmakers passed an dramatic expansion of the film tax credit from $330 million to $750 million.

Gov. Gavin Newsom's proposal to expand the funding for the program has been approved

Economics is the basic study of human action.

It’s a food brand, a hardware startup, a logistics operation. In short, Tovala has to get a lot of things right at once.

A determined group: Michigan Film Industry Association (MiFIA) is gearing up for another push to get the Multimedia Jobs Act passed into law.