Career Economics
  • Unemployment Insurance: 7 Surefire Ways to Get It

    If you’ve recently received a pink slip, here’s everything you need to know about collecting your unemployment benefits.

  • 6 of the Most Useless Job Interview Questions

    By Allison Linn, CNBC

    Many of the common questions people ask in job interviews aren't actually that helpful in predicting how well a person will do in a job, experts say. Instead of finding the best job candidates, they...

  • Why We Spend Money We Don’t Have

    By Linda Federico-O'Murchu, CNBC

    For many people, that weird hole in their budget can be chalked up to one thing: an irresistible impulse to buy something, a need so strong, that nothing else matters. Call it what you want...

  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of MOOCs

    By Rachelle DeJong, Minding the Campus

    This 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 "...

  • The Minimum Wage Backlash

    The Truth About Minimum Wage Workers’ Take-Home Pay

    Minimum wage workers see a pronounced bump in their overall compensation from the Earned Income Tax Credit – in some cases boosting income by as much as 36 percent.