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University students in Australia are sharing beds with strangers because they cannot afford to rent a room of their own due to sky-high rental prices.

Over the last 15 years, individual households have concentrated their spending on a few preferred products. However, this is not driven by “superstar” products capturing larger market shares. Instead, households increasingly purchase different products from each other. As a result, aggregate spending concentration has decreased. We develop a model of heterogeneous household demand and use […]

The court ended one of our most effective social justice policies because anything that isn’t seen to primarily benefit white people is anathema to this country.

Scientists have long held that early human men did the hunting and women the gathering. A new review of data on foraging societies in modern times suggests that most women hunted.

There’s more to the housing affordability crisis than Airbnb.

Mark Roy Anderson used charm and cunning to hoodwink music producer Birdman Williams and many others. And he’s back in trouble again.

They're vetted, almost acculturated, and will be booted from the US if they lose their gig

That includes heat pumps, heat pump water heaters, induction stoves, electric vehicles, and rooftop solar systems.

A 46-year-old deputy mayor of Helsinki was caught illegally spray-painting graffiti in a train tunnel last weekend and is being called to pay for the damages and resign. And although illegal, his a…

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court issued a decision that struck fear in the hearts of every corporate lawyer in the land.

Today the Supreme Court handed down a decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc., v. President and Fellows of Harvard College. Students for Fair Admissions is an organization designed to fight against affirmative action in college admissions, and today it achieved its goal: the Supreme Court decided that policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina that consider race as a factor in admissions are unconstitutional because they violate the guarantee of equal protection before the law, established by the Fourteenth Amendment.

From Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, a piece on the still-radical teachings of Fred Rogers, who emphasized the “love thy neighbor

In a time of income inequality and ruthless politics, people with outsized power or an unrelenting willingness to browbeat others often seem to come out ahead.

Companies knew the mandated return to the office would cause some attrition, however, they were not prepared for the serious problems that would present.

Analysis of data from dozens of foraging societies around the world shows that women hunt in at least 79% of these societies, opposing the widespread belief that men exclusively hunt and women exclusively gather. Abigail Anderson of Seattle Pacific University, US, and colleagues presented these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on June 28, 2023.

This report describes perception of local COVID-19 transmission ..

Let’s start off with this point, which some seem to ignore when I talk about this stuff: I think many of the “concerns” about disinformation are totally overblown. People act as if disinformation h…

Understanding how to differentiate between nominal wage and real wage can help you make important decisions regarding your job search.

Gross Domestic Income Quarterly - Change From Preceding Period

Average weekly earnings are $23.24 today, the same as in 1973 when adjusted for inflation.

Jessica Wildfire published a post on Ko-fi

Philadelphia set the stage for prison reform not only in Pennsylvania, but also the world over

Fernando Pessoa The Anarchist Banker 1922

A couple of weeks ago, Disney opened an old wound in the comic book community by releasing their new Stan Lee documentary. On the surface, a documentary about one of the most charismatic figur…

In 1990, the US government sent $20,000 and a formal letter of apology to more than 82,000 Japanese Americans who were incarcerate