Articles filed under Economy
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Not just the pay gap - women experience 'punishment gap' tooAug 19, 2018 1:00 am - Women experience more severe repercussions for misconduct in the financial advisory industry their male counterparts, research published on the Bank of England's staff b...
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Sending kids to college increases the chances you'll lose your houseAug 12, 2018 1:12 am - The financial distress caused by college tuition worsened the foreclosure crisis at the heart of the Great Recession. New research in the journal Demography shows that i...
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In expensive cities, rents fall for the rich - but rise for the poorAug 12, 2018 1:07 am - U.S. cities struggling with soaring housing costs have found some success in lowering rents this year, but that relief has not reached the renters most at risk of losing...
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How to stretch your summer job moneyAug 05, 2018 1:00 am - Toiling behind the ice cream counter or sweating on the lifeguard stand aren't just rites of passage for college students. You might need summer job money to help cover ...
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U.S. expats face hammering from new tax rulesAug 05, 2018 1:00 am - The four-employee business of Travis Baldwin, who hasn't lived in the U.S. for nearly a decade, is about to get hammered by a pair of tax provisions that were aimed at c...
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U.S. employers add 157,000 jobs, jobless rate hits 3.9%Aug 03, 2018 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - U.S. employers slowed their hiring in July, adding 157,000 jobs, a solid gain but below the healthy pace in the first half of this year. The unemployment ra...
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China announces $60 billion of U.S. goods for tariff retaliationAug 03, 2018 1:00 am - BEIJING - China on Friday announced a $60 billion list of U.S. goods including coffee, honey and industrial chemicals for retaliation if Washington goes ahead with its l...
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Employers are finally ready to talk about how much they payJul 15, 2018 1:05 am - Until recently, none of the 170 employees working at Verve, a marketing company, knew what anyone else made. Now, everyone's salary is listed on an internal document for...
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Black homeownership is stuck near 30-year lowsJul 15, 2018 1:00 am - Jani Tillery thought she would be a homeowner by now. Her parents bought a house in the Detroit suburbs in the late 1970s while living on a modest income. Her mother was...
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Tax loophole from 1960s could let wealthy tap lower corporate rateJul 15, 2018 1:00 am - An obscure tax provision from the 1960s that was left untouched by President Donald Trump's overhaul could let wealthy individual investors seize for themselves the larg...