Finance
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Putting off retirement savings until you make more money is a mistakeApr 05, 2015 7:30 am - WASHINGTON - People in their 20s have a list of excuses for putting off saving for retirement: Their paychecks are too small. They don't know how long they'll stay with ...
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Does college pay? Almost always, says San Francisco FedApr 04, 2015 7:30 am - School still pays. The cost of earning a college degree pays off with consistently higher lifetime earnings, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Earn...
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Top earners' incomes up - until taxesApr 03, 2015 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - The rich are still getting richer, and the poor are still getting poorer, federal data released Thursday suggests. Accounting for taxes, though, everyone's...
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Constable: These campers trading s'mores for Standard & Poor'sApr 02, 2015 5:30 am - Children often come home from summer camp with memories of scary ghost stories around a campfire, an appreciation for s'mores and handmade friendship bracelets on their ...
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Millennials shift to homeownership as rents soarMar 29, 2015 7:15 am - BOSTON -- Americans in their 20s and early 30s are getting a nudge toward homeownership a decade after sales peaked during the housing bubble. It's not their nagging par...
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If you put 10% of your paycheck into savings, you should be able to retireMar 29, 2015 7:15 am - WASHINGTON -- With traditional pensions on the wane, wages for typical workers flat-lining and many people living longer, it is no secret that Americans face an ever-inc...
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The real promise of the 'sharing economy' is what it could do for the poorMar 22, 2015 7:38 am - WASHINGTON - The sharing economy often feels like a place full of well-off millennials, digital natives who have smartphones, credit cards and reliable Internet connecti...
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Black and Latino families twice as likely as others to be low-incomeMar 22, 2015 7:37 am - WASHINGTON - As the U.S. economy has picked up again after the recession, it's become clear that some Americans are getting a bigger share of the recovery than others. A...
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At current rate, American women won't see equal pay until 2058Mar 22, 2015 7:35 am - WASHINGTON - When it comes to equal pay, the American woman is stuck in a proverbial waiting room. But the number on her ticket - the length of her stay - largely depend...
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If economists were right, you would have a raise by nowMar 22, 2015 7:34 am - Six years into the U.S. expansion, the link between falling unemployment and rising wages - once almost as basic to economic theory as supply and demand - seems to be co...