Articles filed under Economy
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Editorial: At 50, Woodfield remains the gamble that paid offSep 10, 2021 1:00 am - In 1971, then-Schaumburg Mayor Robert Atcher took a trip to London, stopping in to see one of its city planners. The planner, he claimed, greeted him with "How's Woodfie...
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Pay for your kid's college? 3 times to think twiceAug 29, 2021 6:00 am - The debate over student loan debt often neglects a significant group: parents. About 1 in every 3 dollars the federal government lent for undergraduate education last ye...
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Kimberly Palmer: How to bounce back when your income dropsAug 29, 2021 6:00 am - Losing income is never easy, but it's become increasingly common over the last year and a half: According to the Pew Research Center, 44 percent of U.S. adults say their...
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Help to prevent evictions lagging in Kane County as moratorium's expiration loomsAug 20, 2021 5:30 am - Only $4.3M of $15M in aid for Kane County residents, landlords has been distributed
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Schaumburg Library program to help holders of foreign degreesAug 02, 2021 1:00 am - Refugees and immigrants with foreign degrees will learn about opportunities to get back into their professional fields during an online program with the Schaumburg Towns...
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Fed notes improving economy, a step toward easing supportJul 28, 2021 1:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The Federal Reserve said Wednesday that the U.S. economy is strengthening and making progress on the Fed's employment and inflation goals, a small step...
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Skip college? Not if you want to make more moneyJul 17, 2021 6:00 am - Skeptical of the four-year college degree? It's still your best bet to make money. Backlash against college as a common stop on the road to adulthood has mounted over th...
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Millennial Money: 'Back to normal' boosts pandemic pup costsJul 17, 2021 6:00 am - Last summer, like millions of Americans, I brought home a 7-pound ball of fluff. Over the past year, my mini-goldendoodle has turned into 23 pounds of pure joy. Close to...
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Liz Weston: Smart strategies to fight back against inflationJul 11, 2021 6:00 am - Few economists predict we'll return to the double-digit price increases of the late 1970s and early 1980s. But knowing some of the ways consumers coped back then - and h...
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Are state interest-rate caps an automatic win for borrowers?Jul 11, 2021 6:00 am - Small-dollar, short-term lenders, unburdened by a federal maximum interest rate, can charge borrowers rates of 400% or more for their loans. But more states are bringing...