In This Town, You Apply For A Job And You Get It Ames, Iowa, has the lowest unemployment rate in the country. That’s great for workers — but a challenge for those looking for them. Tanisha Cortez is one of those benefiting from this tight labor market. The restaurant where Cortez worked closed in late […]

The Rich World’s Electronic Waste, Dumped in Ghana Abdrahaman Daouda came to Accra from Niger two years ago. He collects used water sachets and scrap metal, and hopes to buy his own taxi one day. But when it rains at Agbogbloshie, he finds it difficult to breathe. Sorting through used electronics is a livelihood for […]

10 U.S. Jobs That Are Disappearing Fast Finding a job is tough under any circumstances, but it’s harder for those in fields that are slowly slipping away. Governing Magazine studied recently reviewed Labor Department Occupational Employment Statistics data for all occupations, and created a list showing which occupations declined the most over the past decade. […]

America Is In Full Employment, So Why Aren’t We Celebrating These are prosperous times in America. The country is plump with jobs. Out of every 100 people who want to work, more than 96 of them have jobs. This is what economists consider full employment. The economy has grown for almost 10 years, making it […]

Boston Has A Plan To Close The Racial Wealth Gap For Good Earlier this spring in the majority black and Latinx Boston neighborhood of Jamaica Plain, an economically and racially diverse group of people sat in a semicircle and listened intently while Lor Holmes talked about garbage. Holmes is a business manager at Cero, a […]

Apple tried to buy Tesla for more than it’s currently worth a few years ago Apple reportedly offered to buy Tesla at around $240 per share back in 2013. The bid from six years ago is now being reported as Tesla’s share price has dipped under the price Apple was allegedly willing to pay. Today, […]

The Cancer Capital of America Kentucky has the unfortunate distinction of being No. 1 in incidence and mortality rates of cancer per capita in the United States, and the eastern part of it faces significantly higher rates of mortality and morbidity, due to heart and lung disease, diabetes, and cancer, than the rest of the […]

The richest 10% of households now represent 70% of all U.S. wealth The rich are getting richer. It is a refrain that has certainly been uttered before, and likely will again, as Deutsche Bank Securities’ chief economist points out that the gap between the haves and have-nots in the U.S. is, indeed, widening.Deutsche Bank’s Torsten […]

Amazon Is Poised to Unleash a Long-Feared Purge of Small Suppliers Two months ago, Amazon.com Inc. halted orders from thousands of suppliers with no explanation. Panic ensued — until the orders quietly resumed weeks later, with Amazon suggesting the pause was part of a campaign to weed out counterfeit products. Suppliers breathed a sigh of […]

Who pays Trump’s tariffs, China or U.S. customers and companies President Donald Trump says China pays the tariffs he has imposed on $250 billion of Chinese exports to the United States. But that is not how tariffs work. China’s government and companies in China do not pay tariffs directly. Tariffs are a tax on imports. […]