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Ireland’s financial stability remains highly uncertain, and its problems could ripple through Europe, two economists warn.

Today is Christina Romer’s last day as a member of the White House economic team.

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A new study out of Sweden finds that women workers are more likely to have babies if their co-workers also recently had babies.

Over the last two decades, the number of young children of foreign-born parents has doubled, while the number of young children of native-born Americans only has fallen, according to a new report from the Urban Institute.

As the Afghanistan conflict drags on, the costs of expected veterans’ benefits become a smaller fraction of the total cost of the conflict, an economist writes.

Alaska again received the most federal funding per resident in the latest Census Bureau report.

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Richer nations have the resources to cope with global warming, an economist writes, but what about the poorer ones?

The greatest year-over-year growth in percentage terms was in Alaska, where revenues shot up 106.3 percent. Elsewhere the picture was not quite as cheery.

The Tax Foundation recently broken down some new state and local tax data from the Census Bureau, and found some stark variations in where states get their tax revenue from.

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Other states should follow New York’s lead and assure that household works have basic legal protections, an economist writes.

Three of life’s major milestones became scarcer last year.