Nic Querolo

Undocumented immigrants in the US pay nearly $100 billion in taxes

July 31, 2024 at 1:38 p.m.

Undocumented immigrants paid almost $100 billion of taxes, underscoring the importance of border policies on the country’s tax collections, according to a new report.

In 1949, French essayist, political theorist, and intellectual Simone de Beauvoir published her most famous and influential work on the oppression of women. De Beauvoir attempted to explain why women are oppressed in society and argued that political advancements like the right to vote meant nothing to women who don't have the means to support themselves in other ways. Its English translation (published in 1953) was long considered deeply flawed, but that didn't stop the work from becoming required reading for feminists and scholars around the world.

Moms drop out of work most in states where kids learn from home

March 10, 2021 at 4:02 p.m.

Women have dropped out of the U.S. workforce at a faster pace in states where most students are learning from home, risking a reversal of decades of gendered advancement. Before...

A students adjusts her facemask at St. Joseph Catholic School in La Puente, California on November 16, 2020.

Affluent families ditch public schools, widening US inequality

December 22, 2020 at 4:18 p.m.

One is thriving after switching from online public school to in-person private education. The other is struggling, stuck in her virtual classroom. The lives of these two girls, Ella Pierick...

Unemployment claims| <a href=https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf>Initial unemployment claims seasonally adjusted</a> (week ending May 23, 2020): 2,123,000</p> |

<p>More than 2.1 million people filed a new unemployment claim for the week ending May 23. It indicates that companies that retained their staff through March and April may have needed to close in mid-May, or may have faced a slowdown that affected their ability to keep people employed.</p>

Restaurants can’t find workers even amid historic unemployment

August 31, 2020 at 9:05 p.m.

Not even the greatest surge in joblessness in 80 years is easing the fast-food industry's years-old labor shortage. That's because the COVID-19 pandemic is making this year's economic crisis very...

Beyond Meat and Beyond Burger patties made from plant-based meat substitutes are displayed on a shelf for sale Nov. 15, 2019, at a store in New York City.

Plant-based meat flies off shelves when it’s sold in the meat aisle

July 14, 2020 at 3:34 p.m.

Faux meat, often cast away to the grocery store's refrigerated aisles, sells much better when moved into the high-traffic meat department. Consumers purchased 23% more plant-based meat on average when...

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