Long Commutes Are Awful, Especially for the Poor
“When it came to the most extreme commutes in terms of price, the survey found that about 11 percent of respondents who said they paid $21 or more for their daily commute made less than $35,000. For those in the highest income bracket—making $75,000 or more—only 8 percent had such pricey commutes.”
The Million
In Harris County, more than a million residents – one in four – are foreign-born. That percentage is similar across the region, and foreigners continue to be drawn to Houston. In a yearlong series, the Chronicle, La Voz and Houston Public Media explore how that diversity shapes this city.
Where You Age Affects How You Age
We sat down with seniors in Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Japan, Kenya, Pakistan, South Korea, Spain and the United States to learn more about their experiences. With over 617 million people around the world 65 years and over, these videos are by no means comprehensive. But these 10 people offer us something we can all learn from: insight into the experience of aging, in their own words.
Factors Swaying Judges to Rule for Women’s Rights
In a 2003 Supreme Court opinion, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist suddenly turned into a feminist, denouncing “stereotypes about women’s domestic roles.” Justice Ginsburg said the chief justice’s “life experience” had played a part in the shift. Now there is data to go with the intuition.
U.S.A., Land of Limitations?
“Meanwhile, more children in America live in poverty now (22 percent at last count) than at the start of the financial crisis in 2008 (18 percent). They grow up not in a “land of opportunity,” but in the kind of socially rigid hierarchies that our ancestors fled, the kind of society in which your outcome is largely determined by your beginning.”
The 2016 Assets & Opportunity Scorecard
Despite the nation’s ongoing economic recovery, millions of low- and moderate-income Americans are, like the Greek mythological character Sisyphus, perpetually forced to push an outsized boulder up a steep hill with little prospect of reaching stable financial ground. The 2016 Assets & Opportunity Scorecard shows how today’s economic status quo offers little hope to these struggling families.
Labor after Labor
This report is the first in a series of papers about entrepreneurship and motherhood. Here, we present research regarding the economic and social challenges women face, the impact of motherhood on these challenges, and their implications for mothers’ employment and entrepreneurship.