Six years after the economy shit the bed, let's check in with the "Boomerang kids." If you guessed "long-term cultural trend" rather than "recessionary blip" sometime back in 2010—ding ding ding! You're a winner! Your prize is this wadded-up copy of the Wall Street Journal full of dead bugs.

The rapidly unravelling American middle class has been super hard on big corporations. Who is going to buy their middle-of-the-road household products now that Americans are either mega wealthy or living in penury [in a van] [down by the river]? Nobody, that’s who, which means that corporations need to come up with…

We're well into what feels like our 129384712th consecutive month of articles harping on the notion that men are being screwed by this man-cession because they can't seem to man-age to man-euver their way back into man-jobs while meanwhile women Take The Lead and Lean In and End Men. And if you just look at the…

Ah, August. As we learned through repeat viewings of The Seven Year Itch, it's really the perfect time for the married man to let loose and let his wife do the same, having her run off to that beautiful second home, as he lives it up in the city, spending sweaty nights between the sheets with his much younger sexy…

It is each generation's hope that the next will do better. But a new study claims that your financial status while growing up affects you for life — which explains why some people make impulsive purchases even when the economy is bad.

The way we live now: it takes a B.A. to find a job as a file clerk, according to the New York Times, which declared today that the college degree is the new high school diploma.

A pretty blah jobs report came out today: the economy only added 80,000 jobs in June, and the unemployment rate is still stuck at 8.2 percent. If you're wondering what that means for women, the National Women's Law Center analyzed June's jobs data and found that women lost 17,000 public sector jobs while men gained…

Everyone (or anyone who has ever picked up a women's magazine, watched reality TV, gone to the movies, lived on this earth, etc) knows that ladies start planning their weddings the moment they emerge from the womb. But it turns out that UK men actually used to want to spend more than their future brides on weddings…

The recession is forcing Americans to get crafty with their careers and think outside the bureaucratic box. But although the U.S. is supposed to be a country for self-starters, strict rules originally created to protect licensed professionals are making it extremely difficult for amateurs to get into business.

The phrase "It's the economy," while an utterly valid excuse for many things, has become an awesome stock excuse for virtually everything. Your tuna melt came with the wrong kind of cheese? It's the economy. Bad hair day? It's the economy. Can't orgasm? It's the economy. Doy.

The urge for a jaunty news narrative about how women are overtaking men as family breadwinners has apparently, according to the Daily Beast's Rosalind Barnett and Caryl Rivers, given rise to a popular misconception about the ascendent working women: she's outearning the working man.

Today in depressing housing-market news, YA author Francesca Lia Block could lose her home because the bank won't return her calls. The author of the Weetzie Bat books is underwater on her mortgage due to the recession. To make things more complicated, the mortgage is in her mom's name, and her mom is now dead. To…

The Labor Department announced Friday that employers added 227,000 jobs in February, slightly more than expected, which is obviously good news: in fact, the last six months have been the best streak for new jobs since the financial crisis hit in 2008.

Men who work in female-dominated professions spend more time on "guy" chores like home repair, yard work, and car maintenance, according to the American Journal of Sociology. The study's author argues that it's not because these men might enjoy those activities, or because they're eager to help out around the house…

Now more than ever, college students are feeling the constraints of the current recession, though, with the vigor and pluck that comes only with youth, many have embraced the need for frugality and turned it into a lifestyle choice. They're trying to eat for free! They wear secondhand clothes! They're living in…

On the heels of the "man-cession" is the "he-covery," two neologisms similar in that they both pertain to men's economic prospects during the last few years and they're both irritating as hell. Despite the fact that for every three new jobs in 2011, two went to men, it now looks like women and men are back to being…

Remember the recession (or, alternately: he-cession, or man-cession, or The Great American Economic Cockblock) when no one could shut up about how men were losing their jobs in droves and ladies were the only people gainfully employed? Well, banish those obnoxious neologisms from your vocabulary right this instant—…

Hemlines are so over. The latest way to chart economic trends via women's fashion is farther south: heel height.