Updates on mostly low-paid service jobs in US future, Senate deregulates banks, college spending per student reinforces income inequality, US loneliness a factor in illnesses…
Updates on major capitalist failures, buying senators on health care, opioid addiction's effects on insurance and on labor force participation, price gouging in emergencies, and…
Five years ago, when Lankenau Medical Center was confronted with evidence that it was serving the unhealthiest county in Pennsylvania, the hospital decided to embrace…
I grew up in what could be called the California Appalachians. My town’s population was around a thousand, with a median household income of $37,000. The…
Disturbing truths about the wealth gap in America have surfaced in recent months. Our nation is breaking in two. Yet downtrodden Americans are hoping for…
For most of human history, people were hunter-gatherers. They lived in large camps, depending on one another for food, childcare, and everything else—all without walls,…
As the New Year gets underway, the highest-paid CEOs of many large corporations have already paid themselves more than the average worker will earn in…
It's a familiar trope in U.S. society that baby boomers are the "richest generation." But a report released online Thursday by the Population Reference Bureau…
Between January and March of 2015, a record 1,336 Americans renounced their U.S. citizenship, according to a quarterly report by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that was…