Budget Battles
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Republicans Want Strings Attached to California Disaster Aid
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Biden Goes Out With a Bang in the Jobs Market
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Trump Privately Pushes Senators for ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
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Trump Considers Declaring National Emergency for Tariff Rollout
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Trump Unloads: Grievances, Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico
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Republicans Divided Over How to Pass Trump’s Agenda
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Trump Pushes Johnson to Victory as Speaker
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How Millennials Could Make or Break the Brexit Vote
By Suman BhattacharyyaIn the final days before the referendum on Britain leaving the EU, poll numbers show the “leave” and “remain” sides in a dead heat. The Financial Times Brexit poll of polls has “leave” at 45 percent...
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13 Tax Tips for Self-Employed Workers in 2016
By Janna HerronThe gig economy often means trickier taxes for self-employed workers. A third of the American workforce falls into that category, according to TurboTax, including 3.2 million on-demand workers, like...
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How To Become an Everyday Millionaire…From Those Who’ve Done It
By Janna HerronWhen you picture a millionaire’s lifestyle, does townhouse living or budgeting only $40,000 a year come to mind? Probably not. But it’s that type of frugal living that helped four everyday people to...
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The Naughty Employee Costing Your Company More Than $12,000
By Millie DentWe all have those colleagues who criticize you to co-workers behind your back, make rude remarks about your outfit or demand extra work from everyone but themselves. These toxic behaviors might be...
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Employees Are Paying More – Much More – for Health Care
While wages have been stagnant over the past decade, the amount that workers pay for employer-sponsored health insurance has more than doubled. Average employees at mid-size and large companies paid...
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Behind Every Successful Woman, There’s a Clock
Author Laura Vanderkam has made a career out of studying how people spend their time. For her latest book, I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time , Vanderkam looked...
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10 Worst States for Working Mothers
By Marine ColeWorking mothers may want to avoid moving to the South, where the quality of child care leaves a lot to be desired and professional opportunities are scarce.
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What Successful People Don't Say at Work
By Travis Bradberry, Inc.comYou can't build a strong professional network if you don't open up to your colleagues; but doing so is tricky, because revealing the wrong things can have a devastating effect on your career.
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10 Worst Cities to Start a Business in 2015
By Marine ColeIf you’re about to start a business, you may want to stay away from the New York City area and from the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas.
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10 Best Cities to Start a Business
By Marine ColeSome of the best cities to start a business are located in the South, where resources for small companies are often more available and more affordable than in Silicon Valley or the New York area.
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11 Tricky Small Business Tax Deductions
By Kimberly Weisul, Inc.comAh, tax time--the one and only time when you absolutely must disentangle your personal life from your business. Botch this, and you'll either pay way more tax than you need to, or end up facing an...
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of MOOCs
By Rachelle DeJong, Minding the CampusThis week I watched the eighth and final set of lectures for "Introduction to Sustainability," the Coursera MOOC I've been taking and chronicling over the past few weeks. This week's topic was "...
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How ‘Made in USA’ Is Getting a Brand New Spin
By Heesun Wee, CNBCQuick question about that sweater or blanket you're clinging to this long winter. Was it "Made in the USA?" And if it's wool, any idea where the yarn came from? Most wool apparel is manufactured with...
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Do’s and Don’ts of Boosting Your Productivity
By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal TimesAfter springing forward this weekend to Daylight Savings Time, many people are operating on a couple of hours of sleep debt . So squeezing in a few naps might not be a bad idea. Studies show the...
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Another Reason to Think Twice About Your Smartphone
By Futurity Org, FuturityYou might be less productive at work during the day if you use your smartphone to get work done at night. A pair of studies surveying a broad spectrum of U.S. workers shows that people who monitor...