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Byline: Eduardo Porter There is a grim, fairly popular story of the American social contract that goes roughly like this: Motivated by entrenched racial hostility, the greed of the rich [...]

Byline: Eduardo Porter Calls to âsecure the borderâ have never been anything but political theater - slogans to prove commitment to a safe homeland. Migrants have kept coming regardless, pushed [...]

Byline: Eduardo Porter and Ryan Christopher Jones To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. GONZALES, Calif. - It looks [...]

GONZALES, Calif. -- It looks like a century-old picture of farming in California: a few dozen Mexican men on their knees, plucking radishes from the ground, tying them into bundles. [...]

The Justice Department is using antitrust law to charge employers with colluding to hold down wages. The move adds to a barrage of civil challenges. Antitrust suits have long been [...]

A Biden administration report says collusion and other constraints on competition hold down pay and prospects in the labor market. The recent narrative is that there is a tight labor [...]

Byline: Eduardo Porter and Stacy Kranitz GAINESBORO, Tenn. - There is not much to suggest prosperity in Gainesboro, a hamlet of 920 in Tennessee's Upper Cumberland region. Almost one in [...]

GAINESBORO, Tenn. -- There is not much to suggest prosperity in Gainesboro, a hamlet of 920 in Tennessee's Upper Cumberland region. Almost one in seven homes are vacant. One-quarter of [...]

Byline: Eduardo Porter Age, region, education and income all influence what people think consumer prices will be a few years from now. And that creates a policy puzzle. Who is [...]

Age, region, education and income all influence what people think consumer prices will be a few years from now. And that creates a policy puzzle. Who is worried about inflation? [...]

Byline: Eduardo Porter and Tony Luong Staring at the wall of glass clawing its way up the unfinished facade of the Winthrop Center in downtown Boston - 53 floors of [...]

Staring at the wall of glass clawing its way up the unfinished facade of the Winthrop Center in downtown Boston -- 53 floors of commercial and residential space soaring 690 [...]

Restaurant Associates is not the company it used to be. It has long operated restaurants, catered events and run corporate dining rooms for clients including Google and the Smithsonian Institution. [...]

Applications seemingly from Black candidates got fewer replies than those evidently from white candidates. The method could point to specific companies. Twenty years ago, Kalisha White performed an experiment. A [...]

The sharp rebound in hiring, especially in service industries, is widening opportunities and prompting employers to compete on pay. McDonald's is raising wages at its company-owned restaurants. It is also [...]

Byline: Eduardo Porter The sharp rebound in hiring, especially in service industries, is widening opportunities and prompting employers to compete on pay. McDonald's is raising wages at its company-owned restaurants. [...]

Byline: Eduardo Porter William Spriggs, a professor at Howard University, wrote an open letter last year to his fellow economists. Reacting to the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, [...]

William Spriggs, a professor at Howard University, wrote an open letter last year to his fellow economists. Reacting to the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, he began the [...]

WELCH, W.Va. -- Lillian Keys came back. After receiving her bachelor's degree from Concord University in Athens, W.Va., the 24-year-old English teacher did something rare among her peers: She returned [...]

Byline: Eduardo Porter Many more people in cities lack broadband access than in rural areas, but lawmakers are primarily focused on extending high-speed access to remote areas. Whom should the [...]

Many more people in cities lack broadband access than in rural areas, but lawmakers are primarily focused on extending high-speed access to remote areas. Whom should the government help get [...]

The proposal to spend $400 billion over eight years faces political challenges and a funding system not designed for the burden it has come to bear. President Biden's $400 billion [...]

Not long ago, the question was rarely asked. Now, politicians and economists of various stripes are willing to consider it. What should the president do about jobs? For 30 years, [...]

A decline in funding and changes in the workplace -- and how long people are out of work -- have left a program unequal to the 21st-century economy. The nation's [...]

Millions face a steep and immediate drop in spending power when federal jobless benefits end this month, with a sharp rise in the poverty rate. When jobless workers get their [...]

Byline: Eduardo Porter Especially in service industries, old jobs may not be coming back. Training programs are aiming to provide skills for more resilient occupations. Rob Siminoski has been in [...]

Especially in service industries, old jobs may not be coming back. Training programs are aiming to provide skills for more resilient occupations. Rob Siminoski has been in the theater, in [...]

Byline: Eduardo Porter When the Church Brew Works opened in 1999, it amounted to a rare bit of good news for the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Its population had shrunk [...]

When the Church Brew Works opened in 1999, it amounted to a rare bit of good news for the Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Its population had shrunk by half since [...]

Byline: Eduardo Porter Joe Biden's economic proposals show how the president has shifted the playing field toward protectionism. But there may be fewer jobs to lose, or regain. In July, [...]

Joe Biden's economic proposals show how the president has shifted the playing field toward protectionism. But there may be fewer jobs to lose, or regain. In July, former Vice President [...]

March 16 was the last day David Engelsman walked into the Jackrabbit, an acclaimed restaurant at the boutique Duniway Hotel in downtown Portland, Ore. The lead server on morning duty, [...]

Byline: Eduardo Porter Urban centers, with a dynamism that feeds innovation, have long been resilient. But the pandemic could drive a shift away from density. Cities are remarkably resilient. They [...]

Urban centers, with a dynamism that feeds innovation, have long been resilient. But the pandemic could drive a shift away from density. Cities are remarkably resilient. They have risen from [...]

Byline: Eduardo Porter Economic downturns have often led to political moves to lift the most vulnerable. But recoveries tend to reverse the effect. The United States faces an economic downturn [...]

Economic downturns have often led to political moves to lift the most vulnerable. But recoveries tend to reverse the effect. The United States faces an economic downturn without precedent. Is [...]

Researchers are developing models for more targeted closings (and reopenings) that would curb the spread of infection at a less severe economic cost. As Covid-19 cases took off in New [...]

Byline: Eduardo Porter and David Yaffe-Bellany Those entering the job market in a downturn may never catch up in pay, opportunities or confidence. Matthew Henderson couldn't be entering the job [...]

Those entering the job market in a downturn may never catch up in pay, opportunities or confidence. Matthew Henderson couldn't be entering the job market at a worse time. As [...]

The pandemic has prompted many in the field to focus on ways to address it and anticipate its aftermath. Ernesto Stein, an economist at the Inter-American Development Bank, normally spends [...]

Byline: Eduardo Porter and Jim Tankersley President Trump and others have asked if halting normal life and commerce to fight the coronavirus is worth the cost. Here's how economists figure [...]

LAWRENCE, Mass. -- It's got to be hard to fall farther than Lawrence. This old textile-mill town, 30 miles north of Boston on the Merrimack River, was once a standard-bearer [...]

President Trump and others have asked if halting normal life and commerce to fight the coronavirus is worth the cost. Here's how economists figure it. Can we measure the cost [...]

Forget politics or money. Racism explains why the country lacks the safety net its citizens deserve. The weirdest thing about the Democratic primary is how un-American it sounds. For all [...]

Byline: Eduardo Porter PORTLAND, Maine - There is nothing obviously wrong with Maine's biggest city. Its shops buzz in the summer with well-heeled tourists. Zillow rates the real estate market [...]

Dayton, Ohio, typifies the forces that have pushed those hurt by economic change toward the Republicans, while affluent places become more Democratic. DAYTON, Ohio -- Shawn Hoskins used to vote [...]

PORTLAND, Maine -- There is nothing obviously wrong with Maine's biggest city. Its shops buzz in the summer with well-heeled tourists. Zillow rates the real estate market ''very hot.'' David [...]

GRUNDY, Va. -- Jay Rife surveys the landscape -- hundreds of flat, grassy acres reclaimed from a spent mountaintop mine once operated by the Paramont Coal Company. A few handsome [...]