Two-thirds of all jobs in the country are low-paying at less than $20 an hour or $40,000 a year About 43% of households, or about 51 million, don’t earn enough to cover the basics. Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed, or ALICE, is a worrisome group for America What’s the minimum amount of money you […]
It’s an age-old question: Is life harder or easier for today’s young people? Well, score a “win” for the millennials. Younger adults are spending a stunning amount of money on rent — $93,000 by age 30, according to a new study. More important, rent sucks up about 45% of their […]
Facebook is having a tough time controlling its reputation for unfairly impacting political events, and this won’t help: the social media giant can make users “like” a political candidate’s page without their consent. It just happened to me. I’m a journalist, so I don’t like any any political pages, unless […]
If you think fake news is bad, wait until fake news video becomes a thing. Or until an entire generation of kids hacked by Silicon Valley’s attention-mining tools comes of age. Or until Facebook throws up its hands and realizes it simply can’t stop the Frankenstein it has created. We’re […]
“THIS IS NOT A DRILL.” Nor was it a false alarm. We have a real problem with emergency management systems in America and if we don’t fix it soon, we’re not going to need an enemy to inflict major damage to our society. We’re going to do it ourselves. Saturday’s […]
One of the themes of my Restless Project is that American consumers today are subject to major forces they can neither see, nor understand, nor plan for, and that’s a great source of day-to-day anxiety. Examples are all around us. Here’s one: Pew recently found that 46 percent of Americans […]
Is renting (a home) the new buying? Single-family rentals—either detached homes or townhomes—are developing faster than any other portion of the housing market. These rentals outpace both single-family home purchases and apartment-style living, according to the Urban Institute. “Almost all the housing demand in recent years has been filled by rental […]
It’s no secret that young people are getting married and starting families later in life than their parents did. It is, however, a bit of a secret where they are choosing to settle down. Big cities and their big employers have always attracted young workers, and that’s still true. But a […]
Click here if the embedded video doesn’t work for you.Some days as a journalist, you find yourself bouncing around in a pickup truck with your dog, riding through 20 acres of pumpkins learning about cover crops on a farm that can trace its origins to the American Revolution. Those are […]
It’s Labor Day. I hope you aren’t working this weekend. Far too many Americans will be. And thanks to a court decision this week, millions of them will continue to work over, for free. Before the court ruling, and what the Trump administration might do about it, let’s talk about […]
Bob Sullivan