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Households have now recovered more than half of what they lost during the crash. Let's just hope it's not the result of a second housing bubble.

Can Milwaukee Build Its Future on Water?

Inside the city's ambitious plans to become a hub of water-related technology and innovation.

The end of Peak Boomer means the end of peak employment

The number's probably less than you'd expect

Even today, barely more than half of Americans own a mobile device.

The world's Internet companies got rich behaving just like our government's intelligence apparatus.

Poll: Americans Already Believed Their Communications Weren't Private Anymore

New Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor survey shows lowering expectations for privacy.

Did relying too heavily on mom-and-pop businesses hobble one of Europe's most imperiled countries? It's possible.

Washington Post to Make Employees Pay for Access to Website They Work For

In a memo to staffers obtained by The Atlantic Wire, publisher Katharine Weymouth announced that the new pay "meter" applies to them, too. In the Post's offices, employees will have full access to the site. But at home, employees who do not get the paper delivered will have to buy a digital subscription. Good news though: they might be able to expense it!

In the U.S., new houses are bigger than ever, and truck and SUV sales are climbing back.

Why choosing not to borrow money now means we're sticking our kids with the bill later.

Today, fewer than 40 percent of U.S. manufacturing employees actually work in factories. Our reporter travels to Milwaukee to see what that means for one company and its city.

Changing an Urban Neighborhood, One Peach Orchard at a Time

A Milwaukee couple's nonprofit combats poverty with block parties and community gardens.

A probing interview with Dov Charney.

For the first time since the 1800s, the developing world has surpassed the developed one

Abenomics as feminism

Swiffer Swiftly Cleans Up Offensive Rosie the Riveter Campaign

Less than a day after the web noticed that Swiffer had drafted Rosie the Riveter for its Steam Boost mop advertising campaign with a glammed up version of the feminist icon, the company has already taken down the product's splash page.

They're fractious, frequently wrong, and have lost much of the public's faith. But their insights are still valuable -- as long as you don't expect them to predict the future.

Is This The End of Blue Collar Work?

Companies like Milwaukee's Rockwell Automation excel at productivity, but create far fewer jobs than traditional manufacturing.