The U.S. manufacturing industry shed more workers in August despite policies from President Donald Trump’s administration aimed at bolstering the sector. The United States lost 12,000 manufacturing ...

What drives social mobility? The answer matters to policymakers and families alike. A wave of highly publicized research has led public policy and public discussions astray. It claims that the ...

They don’t seem happy, they don’t give 100%—and they don’t quit. Cranky workers are clinging to the jobs they have instead of moving on because, well, what’s the alternative in the current economy?

At a Cabinet meeting on Aug. 26, President Donald Trump proposed seeking the death penalty for anyone convicted of murder in Washington, D.C., claiming the death penalty is “a very strong preventative ...

Paul Winters receives funding from the Gates Foundation. He is the Executive Director of AIM for Scale. Amir Jina receives funding from AIM for Scale. For farmers, every planting decision carries ...

Economist Matthias Doepke once believed the U.S. was the pinnacle of academia: open, diverse, global. He immigrated to Chicago from Germany to pursue his doctorate, and most of his classmates were ...

It's funny, video games are often seen as the antithesis to work—an escape from it—but so many games still feel like a job. This can be a big point against a game, as evidenced by those swollen AAA ...

Wall Street quants and leading financial academics are clashing over whether artificial intelligence has upended one of the core principles of systematic investing. Quant traders, who use rules-based ...

President Trump has latched on to concerns about crime, as liberals point to its decline. The politics often flip when it comes to mass shootings. By Shaila Dewan It was an object lesson in the ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) has released three insightful working papers in 2025, shedding light on critical aspects of monetary policy, inflation dynamics, and financial stability. These set of ...

Jasmine Laws is a US News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K. Her focus is reporting on health insurance, including Medicare and Medicaid, but she also writes about U.S. politics, crime and ...

Using novel measures of information acquisition, we document causal evidence of a feedback loop between firms’ credit access and information acquisition. To examine the macroeconomic implications of ...