In this season of Planet Money Summer School, our free economics course for your ears is tackling the biggest economic player of them all: the government.

On Monday, August 18th, Planet Money will return to the Bell House in Brooklyn for a live recording of Planet Money Summer School: Government.

The Planet Money newsletter rounds up some new economics studies.

Republicans want to add work requirements for Americans to get Medicaid. Is that a necessary step to fight "waste, fraud, and abuse" or a sneaky way of cutting the social safety net?

A new book raises the specter that corporate offshoring of manufacturing may have undermined America's lead in technological innovation and even its national security.

For generations, people have looked for small, informal signs that a recession is coming or already here. This phenomenon recently exploded on social media, often in joke form.

In recent decades, America has seen economic opportunities concentrated in superstar cities. Manufacturing boosters hope reshoring factories could help change that. We look at the theory and evidence.

More than half of American workers don't have a college degree. Is manufacturing a ticket for them to the middle class?

Leaders from both major political parties have been working to bring back manufacturing. But American manufacturers say they are struggling to fill the manufacturing jobs we already have.

A new study shows how partisan politics has long influenced whether Americans trust the Fed. And how, with Trump's second term, an old pattern may have changed.