Amanda Aronczyk

LaVon and Craig Griffieon on their farm near Ankeny, Iowa. Grant Gerlock/for NPR hide caption toggle caption Grant Gerlock/for NPR LaVon and Craig Griffieon on their farm near Ankeny, Iowa. Grant Gerlock/for NPR The U.S. exports billions of dollars worth […]

Last year, Tyson Foods shuttered a meat processing plant in Perry, Iowa. The company said it made the decision because the plant was old and inefficient. But the closure was devastating for the residents of Perry. The plant had employed

You probably own a chair or a table or a sofa. And you probably think you know why you bought it. Because it was comfy. Or blue. Or the right price. But what if the style, the color, the cost,

When a company gets hacked and your customer data is compromised, you often get a letter offering credit monitoring. What exactly are you signing up for if you opt in for that? Source link Amanda Aronczyk

If you… exist in the world, it’s likely that you have gotten a letter or email at some point informing you that your data was stolen. This happened recently to potentially hundreds of millions of people in a hack that

Let’s face it. Economics is filled with terms that don’t always make sense to the average person. Terms that sometimes mean what you think they mean, but sometimes not at all. Not even close. We surveyed 188 economists. And we

Inflation is such a thorny problem, that policies aimed at bringing down inflation often bring down the whole economy. So there’s a dream of a “soft landing.” Does such a thing exist? Source link Amanda Aronczyk

When Cody Fischer decided to get into real estate development, he had a vision. He wanted to build affordable, energy efficient apartments in Minneapolis, not far from where he grew up. His vision was well-timed because, in 2019, Minneapolis’s city