Fifty years of economic change have taken a heavy toll on some Americans, especially those with less education who not only have been left behind but are sicker and living shorter lives, according to ...

The American economy is a wonder. The Economist observed that average wages in America’s poorest state, Mississippi, are higher than those in Britain, Canada and Germany. American GDP per capita now ...

International benchmarking across coverage/access, affordability, equity, and delivery places the US as the highest spender, far exceeding Switzerland ($7,927 per capita), without commensurate outcome ...

It’s no big secret that the richer a country is, the longer its citizens live. But it’s actually kind of mind-blowing how direct the relationship is. Gapminder has just laid it all out in a chart of ...