Mortgage Rates: The Housing Market Boom in a Pandemic
While the US has seen a record number of home sales during the pandemic, the mortgage market has been reacting very severely to these changes…
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Hardly Working: The Case for Changing the Official Unemployment Measure
At the beginning of this month, The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics announced in its monthly Employment Situation Summary that the nation’s unemployment rate is down to six percent…
Supercommuters, Remote Work, and Freelance Work: A Summary of Unorthodox labor during the 2010s and 2020s
This article will dive into the main phenomena of labor and migration patterns over the past 3 – 5 years, and why they are important.
Boom or Bust? Has COVID-19 Put a Halt on New York’s Supertall Movement?
Before COVID-19, New York City was experiencing a 30-year high in new office construction…
The Price of Admission: Employee Burnout & When a Demanding Job Becomes an Abusive One
This past February, 13 first-year analysts in Goldman Sachs’ Investment Banking Division created a presentation about their experiences working at the firm…
Raising the Minimum
What a $15 minimum wage means for employment and the economy as a whole.
The Reckoning of the Energy Giants: The Battle between the Oil and the Biden Administration
A contentious conversation is starting to emerge over the future of energy production in the United States…
The Housing Market Boom in a Pandemic
In 2020, the sale of previously owned U.S. homes surged to their highest levels in 14 years, and many economists forecast sales to rise again this year…
Growing Pains: Why America is in Dire Need of Investing in its Children & How the Biden Administration Plans to Address Rampant Child Poverty
After hitting record lows in 2019, child poverty in the United States is on the rise. With COVID-19 pushing about 150 million children across the world into poverty, child poverty in America has reached 21 percent. Now, President Biden is proposing an ambitious plan to tackle the growing issue.
California’s Return to the Classroom: Ambitious or Unfair?
On March 1st 2021, the California governor, Gavin Newsom announced…
