Annie Lowrey

Domestic dogs thrive in the backyard and at the foot of the bed. Wolves thrive on the hunt in the country's wildlands.

— Annie Lowrey

Members of Congress - with or without inside information - simply should not be allowed to trade stocks.

— Annie Lowrey

The workforce is getting Uberized. The gig economy is taking over the world. Independent-contractor jobs are the new normal.

— Annie Lowrey

In general, more affordable housing correlates with lower income inequality.

— Annie Lowrey

But for labor groups, there is no debate: Nafta hurt American jobs and household earnings.

— Annie Lowrey

The United States came into the coronavirus recession with a few structural advantages, including a highly diversified economy.

— Annie Lowrey

Cows and other livestock account for roughly one-sixth of all greenhouse-gas emissions, and as a general point, eating meat means taxing the…

— Annie Lowrey

The world is falling apart and nobody is there for you, 2020 has shown it over and over again. But American capitalism is.

— Annie Lowrey

Even very low-income communities are seeing rising rates of obesity, diabetes, cancer, and heart disease as a result. But many countries lack…

— Annie Lowrey

Both the federal government and the states should go ahead and soak the rich to reduce inequality and raise money for health…

— Annie Lowrey

After moving to California, I went on a no-buy streak. I began refusing short plane trips, using public transit or walking whenever…

— Annie Lowrey

A thin safety net, an expansive security state: This is the American way. At all levels of government, the country spends roughly…

— Annie Lowrey

Your wealth is the value of your assets - your retirement accounts, your home, the unsold stocks - minus your debts, like…

— Annie Lowrey

So overall in the entire economy, the issue is not that health care costs are growing dramatically. The issue is that the…

— Annie Lowrey

Depriving immigrant families of health care, healthy food, insurance, and antipoverty supports does not just hurt them. In the long term, it…

— Annie Lowrey

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

Recycling, cutting back on driving, and changing out old light bulbs for energy-efficient ones might save half a ton of carbon a…

— Annie Lowrey

Fires in California and Oregon are incinerating homes, businesses, schools, power lines, and roads. Hurricanes in the Gulf Coast are swamping mobile…

— Annie Lowrey

Indeed, the share of teachers in a union has fallen to less than half, driven in part by older, unionized teachers retiring,…

— Annie Lowrey

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

Deficits are anathema to most Republicans. And Democrats widely believe that government spending should fall as the economy recovers.

— Annie Lowrey

Long before 2020, many Americans were in the position of patching their own safety net and acting as their own city hall.

— Annie Lowrey

Social networks, professional networks, offices, and schools help keep high earners in place.

— Annie Lowrey

Products marketed as being earth-friendly are often not that earth-friendly.

— Annie Lowrey

The government is more responsive to wealthy communities than poor communities, and to wealthy people than poor people.

— Annie Lowrey

Taxes do have a clear record of curbing the consumption of, and thus the public-health impact of, tobacco and alcohol.

— Annie Lowrey

No country save for India is expected to bear a heavier financial burden from climate change than the United States.

— Annie Lowrey

Maybe kindness is not a distraction from or orthogonal to change. Maybe it is a pathway to it.

— Annie Lowrey

The world needs to slash emissions by tens of billions of tons annually, which categorically requires government investment and government regulations.

— Annie Lowrey

The gig economy isn't taking over, but it has become a useful emblem of what it is like to work for a…

— Annie Lowrey

The bunker business is just one instantiation, the grandest instantiation, of what you might think of as conspiracy capitalism.

— Annie Lowrey

The pandemic has proved true over and over again what was already well known: that income and wealth are protective when it…

— Annie Lowrey

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

The country should not have to wonder whether politicians' stock trades were corrupt. It should not have to think about politicians' portfolios…

— Annie Lowrey

Aided by the Great Society and the New Deal, the middle class grew, everywhere from Winnetka to Orlando to Humboldt.

— Annie Lowrey

Americans have become more atomized by education, income, and political leanings. That polarization has meant sharply increased antipathy toward people with different…

— Annie Lowrey

In Opportunity Zones, as they are called, investors will receive huge tax breaks for building office parks, warehouses, housing, grocery stores, and…

— Annie Lowrey

Cell-based meat, or 'clean' meat - real meat produced in labs - has not become a commercial product yet. But analysts expect…

— Annie Lowrey

As a general point, the United States has an extreme budget commitment to prisons, guns, warplanes, armored vehicles, detention facilities, courts, jails,…

— Annie Lowrey

As smoking has disappeared from television screens, planes, bars and restaurants, and other public spaces, the smoking rate has dropped to a…

— Annie Lowrey