The Atlantic • 1st February 2019The White Flight From Football 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 Atlantic • 30th January 2017America’s Great Divergence A growing earnings gap between those with a college education and those without is creating economic and cultural rifts throughout the country.
The Atlantic • 1st December 2017The Never-Ending Foreclosure How can the country survive the next economic crash if millions of families still haven't recovered from the last one?
The Atlantic • 18th November 2016Can America’s Companies Survive America’s Most Aggressive Investors? So-called activist investors are increasingly gaining control of legacy corporations, forcing them to trim payrolls and downsize research operations—and, quite possibly, damaging the entire economy.
The Atlantic • 13th February 2019When Wall Street Is Your Landlord 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.
The Atlantic • 28th February 2018This Is What Life Without Retirement Savings Looks Like Many seniors are stuck with lives of never-ending work—a fate that could befall millions in the coming decades.
The Atlantic • 4th April 2017Why It’s So Hard to Get Ahead in the South In Charlotte and other Southern cities, poor children have the lowest odds of making it to the top income bracket of kids anywhere in the country. Why?
The Atlantic • 27th December 2016It’s Not the Economy, Stupid In an increasingly polarized country, even economic progress can’t get voters to abandon their partisan allegiance.
The Atlantic • 28th March 2018Chicago’s Awful Divide Americans are flocking to big cities to find good jobs—opportunities that remain disproportionately out of reach for the poorest residents already living there.
The Atlantic • 2nd June 2016The Graying of Rural America As young people increasingly move to cities, what happens to the people and places they leave behind?
The Atlantic • 23rd August 2017Can Anything Stop Rural Decline? Small towns across Japan are on the verge of collapse. Whether they can do so gracefully has consequences for societies around the globe.
The Atlantic • 29th December 2017The Places That May Never Recover From the Recession How suburbs in the American West are still struggling to recover from the Great Recession.
The Atlantic • 24th February 2016The Place Where the Poor Once Thrived San Jose, in the heart of Silicon Valley, used to be the best place in the country for kids to experience a Horatio Alger, rags-to-riches life. Is it still?
The Atlantic • 6th January 2017America Is Still Making Things Manufacturing is dead. Long live manufacturing.
The Atlantic • 26th October 2016'Good' Jobs Aren't Coming Back In the last several years some American companies have moved their operations back to the states, but the resulting factory work isn't providing the prosperity and security that such work once did.
The Atlantic • 1st February 2018What Amazon Does to Poor Cities Amazon has rapidly expanded warehouses into low-income suburbs, bringing jobs. But is it a positive presence in these communities?
The Atlantic • 18th August 2015The Town That Decided to Send All Its Kids to College Residents of Baldwin, Michigan, pooled together their money to provide scholarships for everyone, and it changed the town profoundly.
The Atlantic • 20th November 2015How to Decimate a City How Syracuse, New York, ended up with the highest rate of concentrated poverty in America.