The student-loan crisis has an underappreciated emotional valence too: The debt makes people miserable. In one survey, more than half of borrowers… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
Economic anxiety might not have won Donald Trump the White House, but much of his strongest support came from more sclerotic rural… — 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 U.S. has fewer, stingier, more complicated, and more conditional safety nets available to people than many other advanced economies - less… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
A warming planet is destroying the country's physical infrastructure: In 2019 alone, the United States experienced more than a dozen billion-dollar weather… — 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
The government is more responsive to wealthy communities than poor communities, and to wealthy people than poor people. — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
Arguably, it might prompt consumers to think about their consumption, with paper straws and reusable grocery bags and shared urban bicycles acting… — 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
Americans have become more atomized by education, income, and political leanings. That polarization has meant sharply increased antipathy toward people with different… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
In general, more affordable housing correlates with lower income inequality. — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
The United States needs a much more progressive tax-and-transfer infrastructure, given how dramatically inequality has increased. But not every single policy needs… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The workforce is getting Uberized. The gig economy is taking over the world. Independent-contractor jobs are the new normal. — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
