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A Change in the American Dream?

Written By: A. Wilt

While home sales are starting to pick up after the financial crisis, that uptick is slow, and the actual percentage of home owners isn’t increasing. In fact, it’s going down.

Wasting AND Wanting: Food Waste in America

Written By: A. Wilt

Food waste is a little discussed but growing problem in the United States, with experts estimating that anywhere between 30 and 40 percent of all food grown, produced, prepared, and purchased in the United States goes to waste.

Robotics: This Bot's for You!

Written By: Christine Dantz

As fast-food restaurants continue threatening to replace their human workforce with robots to save a few bucks on labor cost, AIs (Artificial Intelligence) seem to be hitting the news more and more.

Is the TPP Bad for New Balance's Soles?

Written By: A. Wilt

For several years, athletic shoe company New Balance was a vocal critic of the TransPacific Partnership (“TPP”), a pact aimed at making trade easier between the US and eleven other partner countries. Specifically, New Balance wanted the US to maintain trade tariffs on at

Amtrak or Japtrak? Japanese Company Paid to Build Passenger Cars and Now They Can't Deliver

Written By: Christine Dantz

If you're scratching your head at the headline, you aren't alone. Seven years ago, when most Americans were wrapped up in the recession, either losing their job, home, savings or all three, a Japanese company won the contract to bring Amtrak into the 21st century