Potholes can tell you a lot about inequality

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, […]

It offsets a big surge in retail sales in March.

Spartanburg, South Carolina, had “white hot” growth before the taxes, councilman says.

Credit the agency's founding director, Alice Rivlin, who died this week.