Economics

Hispanic and Black populations in the U.S. saw the largest declines in life expectancy during the COVID-19 pandemic, new data shows.

Some legislators want to resuscitate Michigan's defunct tax subsidies for film and television production — a program that once spent half a billion taxpayer dollars. That would be a colossal mistake.I should know. I've analyzed those incentives more than most. My first nationwide study…

The Michigan Minority Supplier Development Council recently released a new analysis estimating that it will take more than three centuries to achieve economic parity in minority communities based on the current growth rate of the nation's minority entrepreneurs. Simply put, we must do better. And…

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In partnership with Vox Media Studios and Vox, this enlightening explainer series will take viewers deep inside a wide range of culturally relevant topics, q...

Roughly 180 University of Notre Dame students and faculty have signed an open letter calling on the school’s Campus Dining division to nix the proposed new shop.

It's mid-July, a particularly important date this year for parents. No, I'm not talking about the Advance Child Tax Credit payments that started going out today. I'm talking about the imminent arrival of the 2021-22 school year. With the COVID-19 pandemic somewhat under control — Be gone, Delta variant and everyone please get vaccinated! — schools across the country will be opening this year. Yes, that sound you hear over the internet is millions of parents celebrating. Tax holidays, too: That other sound you hear is taxpayers, both parents and child-free, celebrating, too, because the annual back-to-school tax holidays also...

/PRNewswire/ -- Tying the knot can be one of the best decisions you make in your life. In many cases, tying the knot also means sharing financial accounts and...

Michigan won't get 70 percent of residents vaccinated against COVID-19 by the Aug. 3 end of the state's "vaccine lottery" program.The realization presents an expensive reality as the state on Wednesday announced the first four winners of the MI Shot to Win lottery program designed to boost…

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Students fully vaccinated against COVID-19 at Central Michigan University can enter to win full-year scholarships and hundreds of gift cards.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's MI Shot to Win vaccination lottery program isn't doing much to convince vaccine-hesitant residents to get inoculated. As of July 13, about 62.4 percent of Michigan residents 16 or older have received at least one dose of the vaccine. That's an increase of less than 1…

And once they are accounted for, measured wealth inequality plummets.  One reason that the illiquid and non-market resources of DB [defined benefit] pensions and Social Security are typically excluded from studies of wealth concentration is that they are not directly available in household-level survey data. Our work addresses this issue by taking data from the …

According to the Council on Foreign Relations, every city hosting the Olympics since 1960 incurred cost overruns, sometimes by tens of billions of dollars.

Most studies of mega-events such as Olympic Games find a relatively small impact on the cities that host them. One reason given for this finding is that the event displaces tourists who otherwise wo...

This paper is the first to study the effects of hosting Olympic Games on regional economic output beyond population dynamics. For identification, runn…

A lot of people around the world will tune in to see the Summer Olympics opening ceremony this Friday, but how beneficial is it for Tokyo (or any other city) to even host the games?

Holy sh*t.

Investigation shows scale of big food corporations’ market dominance and political power

Crank out the piggy bank... If you're still signing field trip forms, a $300 check could be on its way. Today, the US government starts sending...

Another month, another inflation shocker

The exercise bike company improbably has Spotify and Apple Music beat when it comes to cashing out artists.

Apple Pay purchases could soon be broken up into installments

The surprising startup boom that took root in the U.S. last year shows little sign of having slowed, and, in fact, looks to be one factor in the nation's high turnover rate in jobs.Several weeks after the pandemic hit in March 2020, economists spotted an uptick in the number of people filing…

Global happiness levels are determined by many diverse factors. These maps look at the happiest and unhappiest countries in every region.

(Bloomberg) -- Lumber, which at one point was among the world’s best-performing commodities as the pandemic sent construction demand soaring and stoked fears of inflation, has officially wiped out all of its staggering gains for the year.Prices at Monday’s close are now down 0.6% for the year as demand eases and supply expands in response to earlier gains. The rally turned a common building product into a social media sensation and a flash point in the debate over U.S. monetary policy. At one po