Over the past year, the average American has consumed an extra pound of dairy products. However, this is not a conscious decision in...

Over the last few years, companies like Uber and Airbnb have exploded onto the national and international economic scenes. Uber was...

Before hemp became known as a mascot for hippies everywhere, it was used as a crop in various civilizations around the world for more...

Since tuna fish became a staple food for the Baby Boomer Generation, the tuna fish industry has enjoyed an outsized role in the American...

Statistically speaking, the US government understands poverty about as well as Marie Antoinette did. For the last 60 years, the United...

I remember standing in line at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Providence at the heart of a rally for Donald Trump. Like at many other such...

In spite of being one of the most discussed issues of the 2016 presidential campaign, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is,...

“A vast bureaucracy with no congressional oversight, that’s digging through hundreds of millions of your credit records to detect fraud,”...

In many states consumers do not pay sales tax for online purchases, unlike their traditional brick-and-mortar counterparts. Legislators...

In 1900, Sweden ventured into brand new territory: It became the first country in the world to introduce paid family leave for new...

In the oft-misunderstood world of monetary policy, a major debate rages about the role of negative interest rate policy in central...

Most Americans aren’t expecting to find a beneficial program hiding in their tax return. Yet the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), despite...

From driving tests to downtown, parking is the bane of drivers young and old. Limited parking is an accepted and unavoidable fact of life...

The mention of Cuba evokes popular tropes — old cars, rum, baseball, and of course, cigars. For decades, these famous hand-rolled cigars...

When Trudy Robideau needed to finance a car repair, she decided to take out a payday loan. When she couldn’t afford to pay it back after...

The rising political profile of income inequality, particularly in the current presidential election cycle, has failed to quell callous...

Sandra Killet, a single mother of two in New York City, ostensibly lives in poverty, at least according to most people’s intuitive...

The increasing polarization of US politics has made this election season incredibly bizarre. On one side of the presidential campaign is...

Shamar El-Shabazz works at a Burger King in Delaware for the state minimum wage of $8.25 per hour. At 50 years old, he lives in a...

Once a symbol of human ingenuity and power over nature, the 79,000 dams scattered across America’s landscape are now falling into...