Economics

Employers pay tipped workers $2.13 an hour. Why? Reconstruction-era racial discrimination.

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With ticket prices surging at some North American tour locations, fans have decided their money is better spent on a trip and a show.

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As the world faces multiple mounting crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine War, and the severe e...

This graphic shows the percentage of Americans that are monthly music listeners for each service. Which online music service is most popular?

50 years in music has seen consumption change from vinyl and cassettes to CDs and streaming. This video highlights sales of music formats over time.

This chart shows the rise in LP sales in the United States.

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As recorded music formats repeatedly changed during the past 50 years, we saw the progress that creative destruction can create.

Eggs have gotten too expensive for Dollar Tree.

There's cause for optimism in the latest report on world happiness. Benevolence is about 25% higher than it was pre-pandemic and life evaluations from 2020 to 2022 have been "remarkably resilient," the report says.

Why beauty bias financially hurts all women.

If women don’t conform to beauty expectations, they’re paid less.

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Major League Soccer (MLS) has entered into a new multi-year agreement that names Ticketmaster as the League’s Official Ticketing Partner. In a move aimed at

Although the need for space was high during 2020 and 2021, apartments in 2022 saw the largest decrease in size in the last 10 years.

Earlier surveys found 23% of Disney+ subscribers would change their subscription if prices increased 38%, but only 6% actually did. Why do people behave differently than how they say they would?

Subscribers to Walt Disney’s flagship Disney+ streaming service barely blinked at a 38% price increase that the company imposed in December as part of its launch of an ad-supported streaming product.

The thrash metallers have secured their own supply of the high-value format, which is enjoying a 16th consecutive year of growth, ahead of the release of a new album

Subscribers to Walt Disney’s flagship Disney+ streaming service barely blinked at a 38% price increase that the company imposed in December as part of its launch of an ad-supported streaming product.

The US is fighting a modern pandemic with a 1990s-sized workforce.

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The frontman said that artists had no way to limit the ticketing giant’s fees but his band had declined to participate in the ‘greedy scam’ of dynamic pricing