An issue brief from Joy Moses shows how addressing the basic needs of the poor boosts the economy and helps meet national employment goals. Read also: Meeting the Needs of Low-Income Families in the ...

In a recent piece for The Hill, Gonzalo Schwarz, a fellow at Archbridge Institute, argued that UBI is a solution in search of a problem, citing recent economic stats. Unemployment is low, the stock ...

The gap between what Americans earn and how much they need to bring in to achieve a basic standard of living is growing, according to a new report. The analysis, from the Ludwig Institute for Shared ...

Currently, over half of our states have so-called ‘right to work’ (RTW) laws in place. According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), an independent non profit think tank, anti-union RTW laws ...

Economics is the study of the allocation of scarce resources. The subject of this course is microeconomics, which examines the decision making of individuals and firms with regard to consumption, ...

Economics 1 will not be the unadorned primer in economic technique this year that it once used to be. The course will skimp on the study of technicalities in favor of a broader approach. According to ...

Most Black adults say their household finances meet basic needs with either a little or a lot left over for extras, even amid economic disruptions due to COVID-19. Yet financial challenges exist.

Wendy Carlin explains how a new approach to economics education can help address pressing societal problems In the early 2010s, a widespread feeling that economics teaching was failing students ...

When Laurence J. Malone started teaching introductory economics courses nearly two decades ago, he did what a lot of professors do: He crammed as much theory as possible into one semester. His ...