Society Page to Society News: A Newspaper Tradition Explained
How a newspaper section built on weddings and debutante balls grew into the civic reporting on wages, evictions and benefits that readers see today.
David Jordan · September 23, 2026The Press Times
Wedding Announcements: The Economics of a Society Staple
Why the announcement page survived the internet, and what it costs to appear there now.
Sofia Lindqvist · September 22, 2026
Onboarding Done Right: Why the First 90 Days Matter
Most companies hand over a laptop and hope. The evidence says the first three months decide far more than that.
Sofia Lindqvist · September 21, 2026
How to Read a Charity's Impact Report: A Field Guide for Donors
Most impact reports count activity. A smaller number measure change. Here is how to tell the difference before you give.
Jay Douglas · September 14, 2026
What the Four-Day Week Pilots Actually Showed: The Documented Results
In the largest published UK pilot, 56 of 61 companies kept the shorter week after the trial ended — and the measured effects on revenue, sick days, and quitting ran in one direction.
Sofia Lindqvist · August 28, 2026
What the WARN Act Actually Owes Workers When a Plant Closes
Sixty days' notice is the whole of the federal promise — and the record shows how often it is narrower, shorter, or unenforced than the phrase suggests.
Sofia Lindqvist · August 21, 2026The Four-Day Week, Tested in America
Pilots from the U.K. to U.S. local government documented stable output on fewer days, and the companies that kept it reveal the pattern behind the promises.
Sofia Lindqvist · July 23, 2026Noncompetes Survived Their Federal Test
The FTC's 2024 ban died in a Texas courtroom, but the state-by-state revolt against noncompetes has quietly made them unenforceable for millions of workers.
Sofia Lindqvist · June 30, 2026
News Deserts Cost More Than the News
A third of American newspapers have closed since 2005, and the research documents what counties lose besides coverage: civic information, cheaper borrowing, and honest government.
Hana Kimura · June 12, 2026Communities
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The Quiet Closure of America's Local Newsrooms — and What It Costs the Towns
More than 200 US counties now have no local news outlet at all, and the counties losing newsrooms are disproportionately poorer and older — a documented market failure with civic bills that arrive later.
Hana Kimura · August 26, 2026
How the WARN Act's 60-Day Clock Actually Works
Hana Kimura · August 17, 2026
The Five-Day Mandate and the Rebirth of Main Street
As Amazon, JPMorgan and a wave of other employers end hybrid work, the coffee shops, lunch counters and dry cleaners ringing their office towers are the first to feel the difference.
Hana Kimura · August 12, 2026
Life After the Big Box
Hundreds of empty superstores litter the American landscape, and the documented reuse record shows what towns did with a hundred thousand square feet they never asked for.
Hana Kimura · July 27, 2026Impact
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The 60-Day Rule: What the WARN Act Actually Requires Before a Mass Layoff
Federal law gives most large employers a fixed 60-day window to warn workers before a plant closes or a mass layoff hits. California adds its own version, with its own math on what workers are owed when a company skips it.
Jay Douglas · August 15, 2026
The Retraining Pledges AI Left Behind
Tech companies promised to skill the workforces their tools would change, and the documented record shows what the billions bought and whom they reached.
Jay Douglas · August 10, 2026After the Telethon: Corporate Disaster Pledges Tracked
Companies announce hundreds of millions after every hurricane and wildfire, and the follow-through audits document the gap between the press release and the check.
Jay Douglas · July 18, 2026Corporate Volunteer Programs, Measured
Employers channel billions in employee hours toward community service, and the evaluation record shows when the hours build something and when they merely photograph.
David Jordan · June 25, 2026Society News
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What COBRA Actually Guarantees After a Layoff: The Fine Print Behind the 18-Month Rule
Federal law lets laid-off workers keep their employer health plan for up to 18 months. It says nothing about making the premium affordable.
David Jordan · August 19, 2026
Where You Grow Up Decides How Far You Get
Census-matched mobility data documents that a child's odds of climbing from the bottom quintile vary severalfold by county, and the research now names the neighborhood features that move them.
David Jordan · August 1, 2026The Generation That Bought Late or Never
Millennial homeownership trails prior generations at the same age, and the documented wealth gap compounds with every year the door stays shut.
Sofia Lindqvist · July 9, 2026The Vanishing Volunteer, in Data
Formal volunteering fell by roughly a quarter in the latest federal survey round, a documented slide with waiting lists forming where committees used to.
David Jordan · June 16, 2026Business News
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Boeing's 17,000 Job Cuts Land on a Company Already on Strike
Boeing announced plans in October 2024 to cut about 17,000 jobs — one in ten employees — while 33,000 machinists were on strike over wages, a collision of a restructuring and a walkout with consequences already reaching supplier towns.
Jay Douglas · August 24, 2026
The SBA's ESOP Loan Program Is Broken Again: A Citizenship Rule Is Why
A financing tool built to help owners sell small businesses to their own employees has been gutted by a citizenship-verification rule, the nonprofit that helped design the program says.
Jay Douglas · August 10, 2026Franchising's Hard Decade Gets Harder
Nearly eight hundred thousand franchise establishments employ millions, and the documented economics of ownership, fees, labor, and the joint-employer fight, define who profits.
Jay Douglas · August 5, 2026Supplier Diversity Retrenches Quietly
Corporations spent billions directing procurement to minority- and women-owned firms, and after 2023 the programs retreated faster than the announcements that built them.
Jay Douglas · July 14, 2026