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The Shrinking Middle Class.

The Ghosn Show.

Biochipping Sci-Fi No More...

The Dean of Dallas Design and more...

Hot Under The White Collar

Around the globe, prosecutors seem to have a growing appetite for holding corporate leaders accountable. What’s driving the shift?

4 mins

The Dean Of Dallas Design

Billionaire Tim Headington is trying to breathe more life into downtown Dallas by giving it a hipper aesthetic.

4 mins

Designing Experiences For A Connected World

“Be bold. Resonate with soul.”

2 mins

VR Gets Real In The OR

Doctors and medical students are increasingly using virtual reality to prepare for surgery.

3 mins

Tackling ‘Tough Tech'

Unlike many venture capitalists, Katie Rae is a fan of startups that take on big and complicated problems.

4 mins

Forget Pie In The Sky, Drones Are Saving Lives

Drones may one day make your life easier by delivering pizza, but today—in Rwanda—they are already playing a vital role in emergency medical services.

3 mins

When Workers And Investors Share The Wealth

Being stingy with pay and benefits can boost profits in the short term. But companies—and their stocks—may do better when they’re generous.

4 mins

Why Business Must Step Up To Shape The Next Industrial Revolution

Technological disruption threatens to create a gap between business’s priorities and society’s. Here’s how business leaders can harness the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” for everyone’s benefit.

3 mins

Beautiful And Sustainable

Big players in one of the planet’s most polluting industries are finally getting serious about their environmental responsibilities.

3 mins

The Shrinking Middle Class

THE VAST MAJORITY OF AMERICANS consider themselves “middle class.”No one can quite agree, though, on what that means. Richard Reeves, along with colleagues at the Brookings Institution, has cataloged no fewer than a dozen economic formulas that seek to define this elastic cohort largely by what people earn each year: household income between X and Y; personal income that’s within some percentage of the national median; distance from the poverty line; and so on. Combine the lot, and the range of who might be considered middle class is extraordinarily expansive—including anyone from a single, part-time bartender scratching by on $13,000 a year to a suburban power couple pulling in $230,000, or 90% of American households in all.

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