A study explores reasons some African Americans may be at a disadvantage when trying to build home equity.

Every city must contend with potholes, but some of the streets in Oakland, California, look like they’ve survived the climactic fight in a superhero film. “Some of them [potholes] are big enough that, if it rains my little great-nephew can swim in them,” says Tracy Greene, a resident of East Oakland. In another neighborhood, Fruitvale, […]

So far, homeowners are resisting cashing out.

Gabrielle Skinner is in a coaching session for auditions at the New World Symphony in Miami Beach. She’s one of 18 musicians here, and she plays an excerpt from Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony on her viola.  Skinner, who plays with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in New York, is Latina and said sometimes she’s treated like an […]

But new efforts are seeking to remove barriers to riding like the need to have a smartphone or a credit card.

Test your ability to catch masculine- or feminine-coded wording.

For every dollar that U.S. men make, women make about 80 cents. Black women make 63 cents for every dollar white men make. Latinas make 54 cents.

New numbers from the Marketplace-Edison Research Poll reflect the economic effects of workplace harassment.

The economically depressed city of Stockton, California is experimenting with Universal Basic Income.

Black women own about 1.5 million businesses in the U.S. At an Atlanta gathering, they set an agenda for making their voices heard.