Articles filed under Economy
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When online tax prep is free, you may be paying with your privacyMar 09, 2019 5:20 am - Nothing is certain except death, taxes ... and tech companies making grabs for your data. So this tax season, I started asking why, exactly, all those "free" online tax ...
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Austin is building a mini Silicon Valley, with some of the same problemsMar 09, 2019 5:15 am - Three years ago, Brin Chartier went to Austin, Texas, for the South by Southwest festival and decided she wasn't going to leave. Then 27, the Boston native found a job a...
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US economy adds just 20,000 jobs in February, well below expectationsMar 08, 2019 12:00 am - The United States added just 20,000 jobs in February, significantly below expectations of a 180,000 gain, and a sign that the job market might be beginning to cool. The ...
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SALT cap will leave about 10.9 million people feeling tax painMar 03, 2019 5:22 am - About 10.9 million people are losing out on one of their most prized tax breaks - the deduction for state and local taxes. That's the number of people the Treasury Inspe...
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How the race for shareholder profits has left workers in the dustMar 03, 2019 5:08 am - A relentless focus on maximizing shareholder value has contributed to stagnant middle-class wages in the United States and fueled the rise of a society increasingly divi...
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430 billionaires fell off the list of the world's richestMar 03, 2019 5:04 am - Wild swings in global markets siphoned a combined $1 trillion from the fortunes of the ultrarich in 2018, unseating a record 430 billionaires. According to China-based H...
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Is the tax code overhaul hurting charitable donations?Mar 03, 2019 5:00 am - Charitable giving in the United States rose a lackluster 1.6 percent last year, despite a strong economy - a sign that the 2018 tax code overhaul could be hurting donati...
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In Miami, your skin color is a better predictor of wealth than where your ancestors came fromMar 03, 2019 5:00 am - Race appears to trump ethnicity when it come to predicting wealth, according to a new report examining the economic disparities among Miami's diverse population. The rep...
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Agricultural workers may soon be made of tech and steelFeb 24, 2019 5:05 am - DUETTE, Fla. - Human and machine have 10 seconds per plant. They must find the ripe strawberries in the leaves, gently twist them off the stems and tuck them into a plas...
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Your friends' social media posts are making you spend more money, researchers sayFeb 23, 2019 5:00 am - American families don't save money like they used to. In 2018 the personal saving rate hovered somewhere around 7 percent. That's up from an all-time low of 3 percent ri...