Tag: Great Recession
San Jose and the reemergence of the donut city
Mark Davidson, Clark University
The specter of downtown decline is again haunting American cities.
After many...
To fight financial illiteracy, we mapped our money system as waterworks
Martijn Jeroen van der Linden, Hague University of Applied Sciences
Over the past decade, the super-rich and large corporations...
Jobs are up! Wages are up! So why am I as...
Edouard Wemy, Clark University
In any other time, the jobs news that came down on Dec. 2, 2022, would...
Retailers may see more red after Black Friday as consumers say...
Ayalla A. Ruvio, Michigan State University and Forrest Morgeson, Michigan State University
Retailers are gearing up for another blockbuster...
Shuttered by the coronavirus, many gay bars – already struggling –...
Greggor Mattson, Oberlin College and Conservatory
Gay bars have been shuttered by public-place closure orders during the coronavirus pandemic. In March, more than half of...
What happens to charitable giving when the economy falters?
Patrick Rooney, IUPUI and Jon Bergdoll, IUPUI
As the new coronavirus pandemic sends the economy into a tailspin, Patrick Rooney, an economist at the Indiana...
Most of America’s rural areas are doomed to decline
David Swenson, Iowa State University
Since the Great Recession, most of the nation’s rural counties have struggled to recover lost jobs and retain their people....
#MeToo, workplace equality and the ‘wave of women’: 3 essential reads
Bryan Keogh, The Conversation and Nicole Zelniker, The Conversation
Editor’s note: As we come to the end of the year, Conversation editors take a look...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
