Pessimism has become both widespread and persistent. In America consumer sentiment is near its lowest on record. Across ...

In the face of shrinking populations, many of the world's major economies are trying to engineer higher birth rates. Policymakers from South Korea, Japan and Italy, for example, have all adopted ...

Voters are headed to the polls on the biggest primary election day of the 2024 cycle with one issue in particular at the top of their minds: the state of the U.S. economy. About one-third of Americans ...

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This Pew Research Center analysis focuses on public opinion of inequality and its contributing factors in 36 countries across the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East-North ...

Wendy Carlin explains how a new approach to economics education can help address pressing societal problems In the early 2010s, a widespread feeling that economics teaching was failing students ...

The CLU report predicts near-zero GDP growth for Ventura County over the next few years. Ventura County needs to build more housing and enable businesses to add more high-paying jobs. One obstacle to ...

Women prioritize inclusive "we are in this together" policies. Source: Debbie Peterson / heyjasperai Since the business upheavals of the 1980s, when women began to fill more management positions, ...