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The gap between Black and white unemployment has persisted for decades in the U.S. The Economic Policy Institute, a think tank dedicated to laborers, wants to change that. Its proposal: run the economy hot, giving more attention to unemployment rather than inflation and thereby helping...

The Past Week, In A Nutshell What Happened: “It’s certainly been a wild ride for stocks in 2020,” noted researchers at LPL Financial. “Barely past the halfway point, the year has already brought the worst pandemic to hit the U.S. in over 100 years, an unprecedented...

Many of the lowest paid U.S. workers will be greeting 2017 with more than the usual cheer, as 20 states and the District of Columbia are set to increase their minimum wages at the start of the new year. Economic Policy Institute said more than 4 million low-wage workers across the country are...