Maria Hollenhorst

"I'm afraid election year politics are going to muddle the waters," said Illinois Farm Bureau president Brian Duncan, on whether a new Farm Bill is coming soon.

Ranch-style homes — with their single-story designs, attached garages, open floor plans and low-pitched roofs — are among the most popular house styles in the United States.

“Shotgun” houses — typically narrow, rectangular, one-story structures featuring doors on each end with a straight “shot” from one to the other — are closely associated with New Orleans.

Shotgun houses were once seen as home to the working class, said Fallon Samuels Aidoo of Tulane. That has changed, she observes.

On the edge of Alamo Square Park in San Francisco, a row of ornate Victorian houses known as the “Painted Ladies” cling to the sloped hill of Steiner Street.

Over the summer, we've been sharing stories about how technology has changed people's jobs in a series called “ My Analog Life ,”. We've heard from photographers, architects, a DJ and even a harpist.

Sign up for the Marketplace newsletter to get the day's biggest business stories, our economic analysis, and explainers to help you live smarter, straight to your inbox every weekday evening.

Sign up for the Marketplace newsletter to get the day's biggest business stories, our economic analysis, and explainers to help you live smarter, straight to your inbox every weekday evening.

Decades after the promise of "The Great Society" for Americans, President Biden is once again changing the relationship between the economy and the government.

If Trump's second time in office is anything like the first, Gene Gebolys of World Energy says he expects to see clean energy growth.