No. BLS says CPI index levels for different areas cannot be used to compare which area has a higher cost of living. The indexes measure price change from each series’ base, not absolute price levels across places.
Narrative control is the shaping of how people interpret events by controlling the surrounding frame: what is emphasized, omitted, repeated, contextualized, or treated as important. The underlying events do not necessarily have to be fabric
Yes. Social psychologists call this pluralistic ignorance: members of a group systematically misjudge the private attitudes or beliefs of the other members. A group can publicly behave as though a norm is widely supported while many individ
A ProPublica/Urban Institute analysis of Health and Retirement Study data found that among older workers who were pushed out of jobs they had held for years, only about one in ten subsequently earned as much as they had before the employmen
Among all workers displaced during 2023–2025, regardless of how long they had held the lost job, 19.3% were unemployed in January 2026. That was up from 16.4% in the prior displacement survey.
A Cochrane systematic review of 75 papers found that drug and device studies sponsored by the manufacturer more often reported favorable efficacy results (risk ratio 1.27) and more often reached favorable conclusions (risk ratio 1.34) than
In 2024, 12.1 million U.S. renter households were severely housing-cost burdened, meaning they spent more than 50% of their income on rent and utilities.
WHAT “SEVERELY COST BURDENED” MEANS
The conventional housing-affordability framework d
Using CPI-based purchasing-power calculations in the Broadside working research, $72,000 in 2018 is equivalent to about $95,700 in 2026. That is roughly $23,700 more income required to maintain the same CPI-measured purchasing power, a cumu
Pew Research Center’s synthesis of historical time-diary data found that mothers averaged about 32 hours per week of housework in 1965 and about 18 hours per week in 2011.
CDC final 2024 data report that the suicide rate among males was nearly four times the rate among females. In 2023, the age-adjusted suicide rate was 22.7 deaths per 100,000 males versus 5.9 per 100,000 females, and males accounted for near
