In the booming service economy, the minimum wage for waitresses in some states is as low as $2.13 an hour, an amount that hasn't changed since 1991.

Americans are consuming more and more stuff. Now that other countries won’t take our papers and plastics, they’re ending up in the trash.

With help from the federal government, institutional investors became major players in the rental market. They promised to return profits to their investors and convenience to their tenants. Investors are happy. Tenants are not.

Parents know that football comes with a risk of brain damage. But many black families feel that the sport is still the best option for their kids.

The day I spent doing Amazon Flex.

How online shopping and cheap prices are turning Americans into hoarders

Amazon has rapidly expanded warehouses into low-income suburbs, bringing jobs. But is it a positive presence in these communities?

A growing earnings gap between those with a college education and those without is creating economic and cultural rifts throughout the country.

Erosion is destroying Newtok, and its residents have voted to move. But where will they go and who will pay?

As young people increasingly move to cities, what happens to the people and places they leave behind?

A profile of Valeria Padilla, one of the thousands of people who cross from Ciudad Juarez to El Paso every day, living a binatinoal existence.

A growing number of self-proclaimed experts promise they can teach anyone how to make a passive income selling cheap Chinese goods in the internet's largest store. Not everyone’s getting rich quick.