Articles filed under Economy
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Retirees thought GE would take care of them forever. It didn't.Dec 23, 2018 12:09 am - Back in 1971, when he went to work at a General Electric plant in upstate New York, John Phelps probably wasn't naive in believing that the company would take care of hi...
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These two Cook County neighborhoods are attracting more Americans making $200K+Dec 21, 2018 12:00 am - U.S. unemployment is near a 50-year low, economic growth is brisk and the stock market - despite a disappointing 2018 - has paid generous returns since the financial cri...
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In booming job market, more workers are 'ghosting' their employersDec 16, 2018 12:00 am - Economists report that workers are starting to act like millennials on Tinder: They're ditching jobs with nary a text. “A number of contacts said that they had been 'gho...
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Study: Women who attended elite colleges made more money, married lessDec 16, 2018 12:00 am - Consider two young men. They're similar in every way. One chooses an elite college, one doesn't. Research has shown both end up earning the same later in life. It makes ...
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It may be time to stop itemizing your taxesDec 09, 2018 12:12 am - Around this time of year, many taxpayers begin the annual ritual of pondering The Big Question: Do I take the standard deduction or spend time hunting for receipts and f...
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The surprisingly high number of Americans getting absolutely no raisesDec 02, 2018 12:16 am - One of the great puzzles of this economic expansion has been the tepid increase in wages, even as the unemployment rate has declined to 3.7 percent, its lowest point sin...
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How to make the most of the child tax credit this yearDec 02, 2018 12:12 am - The wallet-emptying experience of raising kids understandably fuels a lot of interest in the child tax credit, but thanks to some big changes recently, the fascination c...
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The new boomtowns: Why more people are relocating to 'secondary' citiesNov 11, 2018 12:15 am - As they began planning their future together, Ashley Brown and her fiance, Aaron Shuman, concluded that they could no longer remain in Los Angeles because it was getting...
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Tax law changes make passing down large fortunes much easierNov 04, 2018 1:12 am - The teams had to be big, because the work was so complicated. A single aging rich person would often hire more than a dozen people - accountants, estate administrators, ...
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Americans are saving less to sustain spending as income gains coolNov 04, 2018 1:00 am - Americans kept on spending in September as income gains cooled, pushing down the savings rate to the lowest this year. Inflation matched the Federal Reserve's target, re...