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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Looking for a New Job? These Are the Best Cities for You
If you’re on the hunt for a good job, think warm thoughts and pack sunglasses.
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Hoping for a Big Raise Next Year? Here’s How Much You’ll Probably Get
A new report sheds light on how big a raise most workers will be getting next year.
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A New Report Shows Why The 10-Year Jobs Crisis Is Effectively Over
A new report by the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution has good news: "With [yesterday's] employment report, we can report that the national jobs gap relative to November 2007 has closed (...
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The Real Reason Teens Don’t Have Summer Jobs Anymore
Toiling all summer as a camp counselor or lifeguard used to be a rite of passage for American teenagers, but they’ve been dropping out of the labor force for years.
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Women Are Better Investors Than Men. Here Are 3 Reasons Why
Female investors outperform males on average, and new report attributes the better performance to three traits more common in female investors.
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3 New Benefits That Could Be Coming to Your Company
As America flirts with full employment, companies have to work a bit harder to attract workers. A new survey shows that companies are becoming more generous with their benefits packages.
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Are You Being Paid Fairly? Here's How to Find Out
After nearly a decade of stagnation, wages are starting to rise as a strong job market (finally) gives American workers more power in negotiations.
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Do Demographics Dictate Economic Destiny?
A new Morning Consult poll suggests that fewer Americans are spending their tax refunds. Instead, they’re socking the money away or paying off debt.
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The 10 College Majors Employers Want Most This Year
By Janna HerronThe proportion of employers planning to hire recent college graduates hit a decade-high this year. Here are the 10 majors most in demand.
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What Will It Take to Finally Get US Workers’ Pay Growing Again?
Workers of all political stripes must be frustrated by the fact that the economic expansion has yet to deliver the kind of wage gains that have been long promised.
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Stripper ‘Consultant’ Strikes Back against Boss
Meet Ramona Cruz, a long-time stripper in Boston who sued her former club owners after learning that they had denied her a minimum wage by classifying her as an “independent contractor” – a common...
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Third Time’s a Charm for Two Young Entrepreneurs
By Sarah Stodola, The Fiscal TimesYipit co-founder Vinicius Vacanti says failure is just part of the blueprint for success. After a series of missteps and wrong turns, today the company is a leading one-stop shop for locating daily...
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How Crybabies and Screamers Impact the Workplace
By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal TimesEmotions in the workplace are a complicated matter. Among other things, anger directed at employees can have serious economic repercussions, including lower productivity and festering resentment. A...
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Underemployed, Downsized and Living on the Edge
Companies are starting to hire again, but many people who lost jobs during the recession are finding they have to take lower-level positions for a lot less money. That can have devastating emotional...
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Big Fiscal Dilemma — Economy Grows, But Jobs Don’t
Unemployment remains high as the economy recovers from the Great Recession, suggesting that the economic principle known as Okun’s law may no longer work.