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Standard & Poor's -- now known as S&P Global(NYSE: SPGI)-- started tracking the U.S. stock market with its "Composite Index" ...

Has inequality declined over the course of the recession and the recovery? In a recent paper, Stephen Rose of the George Washington Institute of Public Policy contends that the answer is yes. He ...

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Is the Great Recession sexist? If you listen to the Obama and Romney campaigns, you’d swear it was. Republicans are pushing the point that the bad economy has been particularly tough on women.