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Mobile home rent discrimination case raises legal questions in Massachusetts

by Simón Rios
Jul 3, 2024
The state bans price discrimination at parks. Hometown America argues it should be able to charge new residents more than longtime ones.
Ed and Rose Bartok look at their lilac bush in the front yard of their home at the Miller’s Woods and River Bend manufactured home community in Athol, Massachusetts.
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Remember what “9 to 5” used to look like?

by Maria Hollenhorst
Jul 3, 2024
“Office jobs involved a lot of paperwork,” recalled Stephanie Sharf, who entered the labor force in 1968.
"Our word processing center, it was the model for the movie '9 to 5,'" said Stephanie Sharf. "Jane Fonda actually came into our office and walked around and observed." Above, a screenshot from the documentary “Still Working 9 to 5.”
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Federal Reserve, assessing inflation-unemployment link, faces an inflection point

by Caleigh Wells
Jul 3, 2024
But some economists say the relationship between inflation and employment is not as black and white as it used to be.
The Fed weighs the relationship between interest rates and employment levels as part of its mandate.
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Slowing job trends point to stabilizing labor market

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Jul 2, 2024
Recent "boring" data suggests a return to normal, cooler employment conditions after a "red hot" streak.
Job openings on Indeed. The labor market is in a healthy, more balanced phase, economists say, after a period of widespread worker shortages.
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Breaking down Fed Chair Jay Powell's latest GDP report analysis

by Mitchell Hartman
Jun 27, 2024
Powell is paying close attention to "final sales," a narrower measure than GDP itself that focuses on private sector demand.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell is taking aim at final sales following the latest GDP report.
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What 100-year-old immigration policy can teach us about the economy

by Sabri Ben-Achour and Alex Schroeder
Jun 21, 2024
Amid new executive actions on immigration, and 100 years since the National Origins Act, we look at how policy has shaped the economy.
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What do people think causes inflation?

by Daniel Ackerman
Jun 12, 2024
A survey reveals the general public doesn't always agree with economists on what causes higher prices.
"People have a very valid lived experience that just sometimes doesn't align with our official statistics," said Harvard economist Stefanie Stantcheva.
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What does “seasonally adjusted” mean, anyway?

by Daniel Ackerman
Jun 5, 2024
It’s one of those terms we hear attached to economic data all the time. But what is seasonal adjustment and how is it done?
It could appear that there's a recession each January because of the drop in seasonal workers, like mall Santas, after the holidays. Hence the importance of seasonally adjusting data.
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Child care costs are a big part of why Americans feel inflation still stings

by David Brancaccio and Alex Schroeder
May 29, 2024
Prices have climbed persistently, yet the service is persistently scarce. That, in turn, hurts kids and undermines the labor force.
Women are working slightly less since 2019, and the extra time is devoted mostly to child care or elder care, said Diane Swonk, chief economist at KPMG.
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Inflation and politics have always been connected

by Carola Binder
May 21, 2024
Rising costs have long been a concern for Americans. What's changed is how the government intervenes in prices, economist Carola Binder writes.
"The return of inflation was not only, or even primarily, an academic concern. It was, even more, a social and a political one," economist Carola Binder writes in her book "Shock Values."
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