The cost-of-living crisis extends beyond housing. Health-care costs are exorbitant, too: Americans pay roughly twice as much for insurance and medical services… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
Both the federal government and the states should go ahead and soak the rich to reduce inequality and raise money for health… — 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
At a personal level, there's ample evidence that being aware of your emotions and generous to yourself improves your physical and mental… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
The pandemic has proved true over and over again what was already well known: that income and wealth are protective when it… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
The Trump administration, to its credit, has initiatives on housing. It has initiatives on child care. It does not have true initiatives… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
Fighting recessions and building public infrastructure, including care, health, and educational infrastructure - this should not be the work of citizens. When… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
Perhaps the country's most pressing problem is its high uninsured rate. Every other country as wealthy as the United States has figured… — 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
Home-health and personal-care work is one of the country's fastest-growing occupational sectors. But it is one marked by low pay and meager… — 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
