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Childhood wealth and social status can help people get leadership roles in adulthood

Consider two teenagers searching for summer work. One is offered an opportunity to assist a project manager at their uncle’s construction company. The other submits a dozen retail applications, hoping for a call back. Who […]

Rural Nebraskans have different priorities regarding trade policy

Rural Nebraskans continue to value protecting American jobs, creating choices for consumers and fostering political relationships with other countries as important components of U.S. trade policy, according to the 2025 Nebraska Rural Poll. Amid ongoing […]

Deferred prosecution agreements in corporate crime cases show trade-offs, says research

Price-fixing, bribery, and fraud are leading forms of corporate crime. Since the early 2000s, deferred or non-prosecution agreements (D/NPAs) have increasingly been used in the U.S. and elsewhere to deal with some of these cases, […]

Tariffs may bring a US$50 billion monthly boost to the US government. But ordinary Americans won’t feel the benefit

Donald Trump’s recent state visit to the UK ended without the removal of steel tariffs, which the host nation had been hoping for. For months, the US president’s array of “liberation day” tariffs have sparked […]

New report finds wide disparities in investments in children’s earliest years across states

The first three years of life are critical for healthy development, yet families in some states have more than twice the resources of those in others—a gap created by state policy choices.This article is brought […]

Where financial advisors grew up influences their business ethics

A new study finds that where financial advisors were raised plays a significant role in establishing their core code of ethics, which has a significant impact on their professional behavior as adults. Specifically, researchers found […]

Innovative businesses may be less likely to be approved for credit loans

Innovation helps spur rural economies, but a new study led by researchers at Penn State found that while firms incorporating innovation into their business model had higher credit application rates, they were less successful in […]

As global economy doubles, poverty persists and planetary damage deepens

A new study published in Nature shows that as the global economy more than doubled between 2000 and 2022, it still left billions of people without life’s essentials, while rapidly pushing Earth’s life-supporting systems further […]

New data shows the US dollar still dominates foreign exchange markets—despite Trump’s economic chaos

Reports of the death of the US dollar appear to be greatly exaggerated (like that of author Mark Twain).This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

Norms backfire, but social stigma shows promise against sports piracy

A new study finds men access almost twice as much of their online entertainment from illegal sources compared to women, with live sports standing out as a particular hotspot.This article is brought to you by […]