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The mystery of regional inequality
Douglas Clement | Managing Editor
February 27, 2020
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Saving for retirement
Douglas Clement | Managing Editor
February 13, 2020
Article
Income at Risk
Income at risk
Douglas Clement | Managing Editor
February 4, 2020
Article
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Findings from a Financial Survey of East African Households in the Twin Cities
Michou Kokodoko | Project Director, Community Development Gretchen Nicholls | Local Initiatives Support Corporation Twin Cities
January 31, 2020
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Housing Wealth Effects: The Long View
Adam M. Guren | Boston University and NBER Alisdair McKay | Senior Research Economist Emi Nakamura | University of California, Berkeley and NBER Jόn Steinsson | University of California, Berkeley and NBER
January 31, 2020
Research
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The 2020 hiring and compensation vision
Joe Mahon | Director, Regional Outreach
December 30, 2019
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Superstars in the age of information
Douglas Clement | Managing Editor
December 13, 2019
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Manning Up and Womaning Down: How Husbands and Wives Report Earnings When She Earns More
Marta Murray-Close | U.S. Census Bureau Misty Heggeness | Visiting Scholar, Institute
December 10, 2019
Research
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The idle rich, no longer
Douglas Clement | Managing Editor
December 6, 2019
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Do cash transfers work?
Douglas Clement | Managing Editor
September 10, 2019
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The good old days? In many ways, yes
Douglas Clement | Managing Editor
March 25, 2019
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Businesses say they’ll hire … if they can
Joe Mahon | Director, Regional Outreach
December 7, 2018
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