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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Why Some Colleges May Put Themselves Out of Business
By Glenn Harlan Reynolds, posted 12:37pmNo one disputes that college has gotten a lot more expensive. A recent Money magazine report notes, “After adjusting for financial aid, the amount families pay for college has skyrocketed 439 percent...
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Quitting Your Job? There’s An App for That
By Natasha Baker, ReutersThinking about quitting your job? A humorous new app aims to relieve the stress and anxiety of confronting the boss with the news by sending a text message instead. Although the new iPhone app is...
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Target Data Breach Impacted As Many As 110M People
By Javier E. David and Izzy Best, CNBCTarget disclosed on Friday that a mass information breach involved data belonging to up to 110 million individuals—a number far more extensive than originally believed. The big box retailer said that...
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Want a Promotion? 5 Ways to Get It
By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal TimesSo you want a promotion – but don’t have a clue how to make it happen. Career experts say that even though you can’t flip the advancement switch yourself – no matter how much you may deserve it – you...
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How Technology Can (Still) Shake Up the Classroom
By Anmar Frangoul, CNBCIn classrooms around the world, the blackboard has already has its day and been replaced by the whiteboard. But this piece of teaching equipment may soon be on its way out as well – along with paper...