High-income Asian American families pay higher taxes than their white counterparts

Asian American households remain significantly understudied in tax policy research, according to experts at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy C...

API households have highest housing payment burdens, report finds

The report urges policymakers to recognize the increased discrimination and barriers that API households face and ensure progress toward hou...

Asian American Incomes See Highest Growth Over Last 15 Years

Asian Americans had the biggest income growth of any racial or ethnic group in the U.S. in the last 15 years, according to the Census Bureau...

iPhones are for ‘Poor’ People in China, Study Reveals

A new report shows that users of iPhones in China earn significantly less than those who use local brands such as Huawei and Xiaomi.  Such i...

Once Homeless Harvard Student Could Become Cambridge’s Youngest Council Member

Meet Nadya Okamoto — a badass 19-year-old sophomore currently attending Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Okamoto was only a fres...

China is Spending $158 Billion to Get 3.4 Million People Out of Poverty By 2020

China in 2017 is set to relocate 3.4 million people living in poverty to less disadvantaged places in an effort to eliminate extreme poverty...

China’s Middle Class is Growing Insanely Fast

A growing middle class is slated to become a third of China’s population by 2030, according to a report released on Wednesday. This cl...

Y-Combinator’s Basic Income Experiment Will Pay the Rent for Lucky Oakland Residents

Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s elite startup accelerator, will be paying some Oakland residents’ rent as part of a new basic income experime...

This Country is Planning on Giving Every Citizen $870 a Month to End Poverty

In a daring plan to end poverty once and for all in their country, Finnish government authorities are working on a plan that will pay every...

Almost Half of Married Couples Don’t Know This Key Detail About Their Spouse, Study Reveals

A new study by Fidelity suggests that married couples may not know each other as well as they think — 43% partners don’t even know how...