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If you want to know how the rural developing world could get cheap, easy wireless Internet access, just follow the money: Remittances to those regions total tens of billions each year, and the money flow isn't very efficient. The profits from micro-telcos taking over the business could prime the pump for an information revolution in the hinterlands.

While the Great Recession caused the U.S. poverty rate to hit a 15-year peak, a longer trend has seen suburban poverty increasing. According to a new report, the recession only exacerbated the problem, with social safety nets providing fewer services to meet the rising need.

After falling for three straight months, unemployment rates rose in most U.S. metropolitan areas in June. Is this growing joblessness more evidence of a double-dip recession?

Target plans to announce a $1 billion renovation program that will include a revamping its existing stores, experimenting with smaller store openings in urban areas and an expansion abroad over the next decade.

Like many business people, Donald Monti sees opportunity in the flurry of foreclosures across the nation -- but he's no suburban real estate speculator. Instead, Monti -- a Plainview, NY, developer -- has seen the future and it looks more like a city than a suburb. Monti is taking his vision for...

The animal control department came, to a vacant lot on the 600 block of Pierce Street in South Philly, and got about 15 of 'em. Chickens are hard to catch, though, especially when there are more than 40 altogether; and they've been wild for a few years. So they took the ones they could, and threw...

Michael Brown, temporary mayor of Flint, Michigan, recently floated the idea of shutting down portions of his beleaguered city. The comment, which was apparently an off-the-cuff suggestion, has spurred conversation about the best ways for depressed municipalities to deal with abandoned and...

Earlier this year, my wife and I moved from the wilds of Southwest Virginia to New York City. Our greatest fear wasn't crime, filth, or the possibility that our daughter would grow up with a New York accent. Rather, we were worried that everything was going to cost a fortune and that we would end...