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Annie Lowrey
Annie Lowrey is a contributing editor at The Atlantic, covering economic policy.
Health & Human Services
Is This the End of Welfare as We Know It?
The overnight success of the new child tax credit has experts and parents taking a hard look at traditional welfare.
- By Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic
Management
The Time Tax
Why is so much American bureaucracy left to average citizens?
- By Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic
Health & Human Services
Millennials Aren’t Just Behind. They’re All Over the Place.
COMMENTARY | Today's economic conditions are not just holding Millennials back. They are stratifying them, leading to unequal experiences within the generation as well as between it and other cohorts.
- By Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic
Management
There’s No Such Thing as a Low-Skill Worker
COMMENTARY | The label flattens workers to a single attribute, ignoring the capacities they have and devaluing the work they do.
- By Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic
Finance
Stop Worrying About Budget Deficits
COMMENTARY | Red ink isn’t a problem as long as the country is spending on the right things.
- By Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic
Finance
States Need Federal Money to Do the Right Thing
COMMENTARY | Bailing out bars and restaurants would allow them to remain closed—and curb the spread of the coronavirus.
- By Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic
Finance
If You Soak the Rich, Will They Leave?
COMMENTARY | States and cities struggling through the pandemic recession are wondering if higher taxes will raise revenue, or cause a mass exodus.
- By Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic
Management
The Underemployment Crisis
COMMENTARY | Even before the pandemic, roughly one in 10 workers wanted to log more hours.
- By Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic
Finance
The Second Great Depression
COMMENTARY | At least four major factors are terrifying economists and weighing on the recovery.
- By Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic
Management
This Summer Will Scar Young Americans for Life
With jobs and internships canceled, Generation Z is entering a summer of uncertainty—and the damage could last forever.
- By Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic
Finance
The Small-Business Die-Off Is Here
COMMENTARY | Many small businesses won’t survive, and that will change the landscape of American commerce for years to come.
- By Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic
Finance
The Coronavirus Recession Will Be Unusually Difficult to Fight
COMMENTARY | Consequences will linger even after the virus dissipates.
- By Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic
Finance
The Great Affordability Crisis Breaking America
COMMENTARY | In one of the best decades the American economy has ever recorded, families were bled dry.
- By Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic
Management
The Bill That Could Make California Livable Again
COMMENTARY | S.B. 50 would make the state denser, cheaper, greener, and more affordable.
- By Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic
Management
California Is Becoming Unlivable
The state is plagued by two major issues: wildfires and a lack of affordable housing. Each problem exacerbates the other.
- By Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic
Management
The Next Recession Will Destroy Millennials
Millennials are already in debt and without savings. After the next downturn, they’ll be in even bigger trouble.
- By Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic
Management
The Case Against Paper Straws
COMMENTARY | They’re a single-use, disposable consumer item—a greener option, but not a green one.
- By Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic
Health & Human Services
The Supreme Court Is Bad for Your Health
COMMENTARY | Its decision to let states opt out of the Medicaid expansion turned out to have lethal consequences.
- By Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic
Finance
The City That’s Giving People Money
COMMENTARY | Randomly selected Stockton residents are receiving $500 a month. The experiment might prove that guaranteed income works.
- By Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic
Management
What the Camp Fire Revealed
ANALYSIS | Two months after disaster struck, the recovery in Paradise, California, is harder for some than for others.
- By Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic