But for labor groups, there is no debate: Nafta hurt American jobs and household earnings. — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
Depriving immigrant families of health care, healthy food, insurance, and antipoverty supports does not just hurt them. In the long term, it… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
Moderately priced homes might draw working families in a metro area. And having rising incomes at the top might price lower-income families… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
Income is now more concentrated in the hands of the rich. Those well-off households tend to save and invest higher proportions of… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
Americans are no less susceptible to disease, joblessness, and family changes than their peers in rich nations, but they are made more… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
Where Democrats have a real toehold to criticize Republicans is that families still feel very financially fragile. About 2 in 5 adults… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
Lower-income immigrant families might receive more in benefits than they pay in taxes. But that mathematical equilibrium is temporary, and an artifact… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
So overall in the entire economy, the issue is not that health care costs are growing dramatically. The issue is that the… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
Urbanization, falling poverty rates, and growing global trade have changed the diets and expanded the waistlines of the world's poor, with processed… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
During a coronavirus-induced downturn, families will be at greater risk for food insecurity, eviction, and job loss; kids will go hungry; food… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
In the longer term, immigrants contribute more to the government's coffers than they receive in social spending. Moreover, these programs are not… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
The Trump administration, for its part, has pushed for childcare to basically be written off on your taxes, which would subsidize the… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
When economists talk about income, they talk about the money a household or a person earns in a given year. That's the… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
Immigrant families pay taxes. They work. They start businesses. They spend money in their communities. They join native-born families in being economically… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
The bunker business is just one instantiation, the grandest instantiation, of what you might think of as conspiracy capitalism. — Annie Lowrey Copy Share
It is a country that professes to care for babies. But in the United States, the infant death rate is twice as high as… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share
Where Democrats have a real toehold to criticize Republicans is that families still feel very financially fragile. About 2 in 5 adults would struggle… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share
So overall in the entire economy, the issue is not that health care costs are growing dramatically. The issue is that the burden placed… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share
As a general point, the United States has an extreme budget commitment to prisons, guns, warplanes, armored vehicles, detention facilities, courts, jails, drones, and… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share
Conspiracy theories themselves are big business, of course, selling books, videos, conferences, and all kinds of merch. Then there is the economy that promotes… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share
The risk that people pose to wolfdogs is far greater, statistically, than the risk that wolfdogs pose to people. Many are bred in miserable,… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share
Wolves are afraid of humans, whereas dogs are not. Wolves hunt game, whereas dogs scavenge human leftovers or eat what their human companions put… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share
The workforce is getting Uberized. The gig economy is taking over the world. Independent-contractor jobs are the new normal. — Annie Lowrey Copy Share
For animals, for humans, for the planet: It makes sense to curb meat consumption, and that is something vegans and omnivores agree on. Roughly… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share
The rise of populist movements and the shrinking of the middle class - with all the economic pain and political turbulence that comes with… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share
The student-loan crisis has an underappreciated emotional valence too: The debt makes people miserable. In one survey, more than half of borrowers said that… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share
Aided by the Great Society and the New Deal, the middle class grew, everywhere from Winnetka to Orlando to Humboldt. — Annie Lowrey Copy Share
Student loans are delaying retirements. They're suppressing the housing market. They're suffocating new business formation. They're even leading young people to delay getting married… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share
Economic anxiety might not have won Donald Trump the White House, but much of his strongest support came from more sclerotic rural and industrial… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share
