Articles filed under Economy
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Analysis: Is forcing students to study personal finance a waste of time?Apr 28, 2019 6:10 am - It's post-tax/pre-graduation season, when articles about making better financial decisions crop up faster than spring flowers. Each year around this time, you can expect...
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Millennials, are you robbing the Bank of Mom and Dad?Apr 28, 2019 6:00 am - When Melanie Lockert graduated with a master's in performance studies in 2011, she was overwhelmed with student loans. Her many attempts to tap the Bank of Mom and Dad h...
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Unsold luxury homes are piling up in the Hamptons. Is new tax law to blame?Apr 28, 2019 6:00 am - Lavish vacation homes are losing their luster in New York's Hamptons, the beachfront retreat favored by financiers and celebrities. There were 869 luxury properties avai...
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The data is in: More Americans received tax refunds in 2019, but checks were leanerApr 27, 2019 6:10 am - The first tax filing season under President Donald Trump's new tax law is over and the results show that slightly more Americans received tax refunds, but the checks wer...
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Business experts tout collaboration at economic forumApr 25, 2019 1:00 am - Despite perceived negativity, the suburbs and Illinois have a strong foundation for business and leaders need to band together to spread that message to attract new busi...
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What students can learn from the days before college loansApr 07, 2019 6:16 am - College tuition was less than what today's students pay for textbooks when Caron and Jack Knopoff attended Chicago's Wright Junior College in the mid-1960s. Tuition at w...
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Vast majority of applicants for temporary student loan forgiveness are rejectedApr 07, 2019 6:00 am - WASHINGTON - Tens of thousands of public servants have applied to have their federal student loans forgiven through a temporary relief program run by the U.S. Education ...
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As Amazon leads cashless charge, states and cities push backApr 06, 2019 6:10 am - Rebecca Esparza works with homeless people and, having once lived in a shelter herself, knows what it's like to navigate the U.S. economy if you don't have much money. F...
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Unlimited vacation - the one benefit workers want more than anythingMar 31, 2019 6:12 am - Employees have a new favorite perk, and it's not free craft-brewed beer, student loan repayment benefits or eco-friendly roof gardens at the office. It's much simpler: M...
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Why US Steel and others are expanding paid family leaveMar 31, 2019 6:10 am - United States Steel Corp. said recently it was expanding its paid leave benefits for nonunion employees and rolling out a slew of new benefits such as gender reassignmen...