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Connecting economics, current events, and history, our weekly economic news roundup ranges from a gender gap update to population growth and beer tariffs.
With population growth adding almost three billion people by 2050, we need to figure out how to produce more food with less land and fewer emissions.
New research on the gender pay gap and the gender leadership gap indicate we should be especially aware of hiring, downshifting, and attrition.
To see why another partial government shutdown is a possibility, we can look at the Congress's continuing resolutions (CRs).
Hello Everyone-
I’m Elaine.
Having been in the classroom for decades, written three books (and some of a fourth one), I like to think about economics everywhere all the time. Every day, I’ve added a blog to econlife—now it has been almost 14 years and more than 4,000 posts. I am delighted that you are here and hope we can have some economic fun together.