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Edgard Garrido / Reuters Is NAFTA Over?
The presidents of Mexico and the United States are negotiating their new economic relationship in an oddly public way.
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Alexei Druzhinin / AP Why Russian Banks Have an Interest in Washington
The country’s two largest state-run banks have been lobbying for relief from sanctions imposed in 2014.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Meaning of Trump’s Meeting With Detroit Automakers
The president starts putting his “America first” rhetoric into action.
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Alexia Campbell / The Atlantic Scenes From the Inauguration: Trump Voters on the Economy
“I think he will do well because he has a business mindset. He has no loyalty to politicians."
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters The End of Government Oversight?
Republicans in Congress are working hard to remove business regulations that they believe are hampering economic growth.
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Neil Hall / Reuters The Revolt of Working Parents
Mothers—and some fathers—are increasingly suing employers for discriminating against working parents. They are succeeding.
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Evan Vucci / AP Trump’s Protectionist Economic Plan Is Nothing New
The founding fathers advocated taxing imports to protect American manufacturers. Will it work in a modern economy?
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Damian Dovarganes / AP Mnuchin's Bank Was Reprimanded by the Same Department He May Lead
Documents show that state prosecutors and Treasury Department regulators believed Steve Mnuchin's bank was mishandling foreclosures at the height of the financial crisis.
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Library of Congress Embracing an Ordinary Economy
In his new book, economist and historian Marc Levinson explains why no one should expect a return to the growth of the post-war boom years.
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Ted Warren / AP Why Are Americans Less Charitable Than They Used to Be?
Researchers found that the losses of the Great Recession do not entirely explain why people aren’t giving very much money to charity.
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Toru Hanai / Reuters D.C.’s Battle for Paid Family Leave
City-council members in the nation’s capital are preparing for a final vote on what could be the most expansive parental-leave law in the United States.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters The Conservative Plan to Tackle Poverty
House Speaker Paul Ryan says that improving the lives of low-income Americans is a top priority. To do that, the GOP plans to help businesses first.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Why Fewer Americans Outearn Their Parents
It’s growing inequality—not a temporarily sluggish economy—that is most likely to blame.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Trump Picks Multi-Millionaire Fast-Food Executive for Labor Secretary
The president-elect has chosen Andrew Puzder, a vocal critic of minimum-wage hikes and new overtime rules.
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Daniel Becerril Nearly 5 Million U.S. Jobs Depend on Trade With Mexico
Arguments that policies such as NAFTA have killed American manufacturing jobs often ignore the many other American jobs that such deals create and support.
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Jessica Rinaldi / Reuters There's a Clear Way to Fix the H-1B Visa Program
Closing a 1998 loophole would prevent companies from replacing American IT workers with foreign guest workers. Why hasn’t that been done yet?
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Pascal Lauener / Reuters Why Violence Against Nurses Has Spiked in the Last Decade
Hospital patients are attacking staff at an alarming rate, and there are no federal regulations requiring employers to provide any protection.
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters Not All Immigrant Labor Is Cheap Labor
There are problems with the narrative that visas are letting foreigners take Americans’ jobs at lower wages.
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Wayne Parry / AP The Future of the FTC Looks a Lot Like Its Past
On the campaign trail, Trump hinted that he would take a more aggressive role in policing corporate mergers, but things don’t seem to be headed in that direction.
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Gary Hershorn / Reuters American Marriage in the Time of the Recession
Women who lived in areas that suffered the brunt of the downturn, new research suggests, were more likely to be abused by their partners.
