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.

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

How can the country survive the next economic crash if millions of families still haven't recovered from the last one?

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.

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.

Many seniors are stuck with lives of never-ending work—a fate that could befall millions in the coming decades.

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?

In an increasingly polarized country, even economic progress can’t get voters to abandon their partisan allegiance.

Americans are flocking to big cities to find good jobs—opportunities that remain disproportionately out of reach for the poorest residents already living there.

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

Small towns across Japan are on the verge of collapse. Whether they can do so gracefully has consequences for societies around the globe.

How suburbs in the American West are still struggling to recover from the Great Recession.

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?

Manufacturing is dead. Long live manufacturing.

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.

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

Residents of Baldwin, Michigan, pooled together their money to provide scholarships for everyone, and it changed the town profoundly.

How Syracuse, New York, ended up with the highest rate of concentrated poverty in America.