Democrats’ hubris in thinking they can outsmart basic economics is matched only by how reliably economics drags their policies back to reality. To offset these increased costs, the companies chose, ...

Matthew Chapman attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and lives in San Marcos, Texas. Before joining Raw Story, he wrote for Shareblue and AlterNet, specializing in election and policy coverage.

When New York City’s new minimum-wage rules for grocery delivery workers kicked in last week, they immediately hit us at the checkout. The evidence pops up as soon as you open your Instacart app.

Johan Fourie receives funding from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond. In 1825, a tax collector compiling a census in South Africa’s Cape Colony paused to write a poem in the margin of his work. In it, he ...

The price of household necessities rose in December over the previous month, even as inflation overall held steady. The result is that price pressures were unevenly distributed across income groups, ...

The 2020s, so far, have been one long and often painful lesson in what happens when policymakers tell economists to shut up and go away. From the COVID-19 pandemic through Bidenflation and onto the ...

GoFundMe’s 2025 "Year in help" review found that its crowdfunding platform was increasingly used by Americans to fundraise for basic economic needs. "Monthly bills" was the second-fastest growing ...