The Best Business Reads of May

Every month, the editors of The Atlantic’s Business Channel put together a collection of the most interesting pieces of journalism about money and economics from around the web.

This month’s picks include a look at how tax policy helps produce inequality, a story about the struggle to keep family farms running, an investigation into the economic toll of service disruptions on public transit, and a conversation with a man who became a billionaire making cheese for pizza chains.

If you’ve missed previous roundups, you can find recent ones here and here.

“How Homeownership Became the Engine of American Inequality”

Matthew Desmond | The New York Times Magazine

Almost a decade removed from the foreclosure crisis that began in 2008, the nation is facing one