Danielle Kurtzleben

Is the age of American austerity finally over?

Meanwhile, Alaska and South Dakota join the ranks of states that have minimum wages indexed to inflation

The people who make it out to the polls tend to be poorer than the people who do vote, and it matters.

And all five measures look like they have great changes of passing.

Watch the US’s major metropolitan areas hemorrhage hundreds of thousands of jobs in 15 scary seconds

According to this study, the formula for being a productive working mom might be to have 1 kid between the ages of 30 and 34 (dads, you’re in the clear).

Recent Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidelines aim to curb workplace discrimination

More than one in three black Americans were in poverty for at least two months in 2012.