Why Young Americans Cannot Afford to Become Adults

A record 25.2 million Americans under 35 lived with their parents last year. Seven in ten of them have a job. The uncomfortable truth this generation keeps being told to solve with more effort is, by the numbers, not a character problem at all. It is a housing shortage, a broken entry-level job market, and…

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ByAnthony Waters

Business Culture

Why Having Children Now Feels Like a Luxury

Raising one child to adulthood in America now costs roughly $300,000. Childcare alone exceeds public college tuition in 28 states. And for the first time in the eleven-year history of the American Family Survey, finances have become the single most common reason Americans give for having fewer children than they actually want, cited twice as…

The Housing Crisis Is Also a Family Crisis

A shortage of roughly four million homes does not sound, at first glance, like a story about marriage, children, church pews, or retirement security. It is exactly that story. Pull on any thread of American family life quietly fraying right now, and the housing market is somewhere near the other end of it. Americans have…

The $100 Grocery Bag: Economic Statistics Feel Different

The White House points to a cooling inflation rate and calls it "big progress on prices." A mother filling a cart at the grocery store looks at a receipt nearly $30 higher than it would have been five years ago and calls it something else entirely. Both of them are looking at real numbers. They…

Made in America: Are Consumers Willing to Pay the Real Price?

46% of Americans say they would choose a product labeled "Made in America" over an imported alternative. Only 20% say they are actually willing to pay significantly more to do it. That gap, between what Americans say they value and what they are prepared to spend defending it, is the real story behind a decade…

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ByRashad Pool

America First Business

The American Dream: The Cost of Middle-Class in 2026

A house, two cars, a couple of kids, a retirement account that actually grows, and enough left over for a vacation once a year. That is roughly what "the American Dream" has meant for most of the past century. This year, this magazine decided to actually price it out, region by region, category by category,…

LinkedIn Has a Fake Job Postings Problem

Behind a growing share of the "opportunities" on the world's largest professional network sits no company at all, only a scammer with an AI-generated logo, a script, and a fake invoice for a laptop that will never actually arrive. The people paying for it are disproportionately those who can least afford to: Americans who have…

Faith, Ethics, and Entrepreneurship

The role of integrity and purpose in modern business leadership. In an era defined by rapid change, digital transformation, and a relentless pursuit of growth, business leaders face a question far deeper than profit: What does success mean without purpose? Across America, a quiet revolution is taking place among entrepreneurs who believe that integrity,…

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ByLeonard Knowles

Business

Made in the USA: The Return of Domestic Manufacturing

Why reshoring production is creating jobs and national pride. For decades, “Made in the USA” evoked nostalgia more than policy. It was a phrase tied to an older America — a symbol of factories, craftsmanship, and national pride that had slowly eroded as globalization rewired the world’s economy. Yet in the past few years,…

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ByRory Harris

Business

The New Backbone of American Small Business

How independent owners are redefining resilience in a digital economy. There is no truer reflection of the American spirit than the independent business owner. From a family restaurant in Tampa to a software start-up in Austin, small business remains the heartbeat of the nation’s economy and the embodiment of its ideals — freedom, creativity,…

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ByAnthony Waters

Business

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