Articles filed under Economy
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Terror, pot, unions: Why security guard pay is on the riseFeb 04, 2018 12:00 am - Despite the lowest unemployment rate since 2000, wages for American workers rose at a relatively tepid pace last year. For security guards, it's a different story. Avera...
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How to play Trump's roller coaster ride of trade-war threatsFeb 04, 2018 12:00 am - President Donald Trump says the U.S. will never "surrender" in its economic rivalry with other nations. That's keeping analysts on alert for signs of a trade war. In his...
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Blue states' tax workarounds could mean $154B lost to TreasuryJan 28, 2018 12:10 am - New York state lawmakers could punch a $50.6 billion hole in the federal government's budget by revamping their state income tax. If California followed the same approac...
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Union membership remained steady in 2017, but will that trend hold?Jan 28, 2018 12:00 am - Union membership held steady in 2017 at 10.7 percent of the workforce, according to figures released recently by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. An additional 1.2 percen...
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How stocks are leaving wages in the dustJan 21, 2018 12:11 am - Wages were mostly flat again in 2017, even as the stock market rose to record heights. This is kind of what we expect nowadays: The divide between Main Street and Wall S...
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Analysis: Are small businesses overrated?Jan 21, 2018 12:10 am - America loves its small businesses. According to a Gallup poll, 70 percent of us say we have a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in our Main Street merchants a...
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$20K (or more) to every baby born in the United States? Here's how it would workJan 14, 2018 12:14 am - Forget baby showers. There's a proposal to give every newborn in the United States a "Baby Bond" account with somewhere between $500 to $50,000 in cash. Neither the kids...
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Graduate school: Where student loan debt is a real problemJan 14, 2018 12:05 am - Politicians and reporters often trot out recent college graduates struggling to pay off their student loan debt to illustrate the dangers of runaway college costs. But u...
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Report: GOP tax law to strain IRS resourcesJan 14, 2018 12:00 am - The Republican tax law has created massive new obligations for an Internal Revenue Service already struggling "to perform the basic tasks of administering the tax system...
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Analysis: In Trump's first year, stocks soar for rich, but wages stay flatJan 07, 2018 12:00 am - President Donald Trump cheered as the Dow topped 25,000 for the first time ever Thursday, claiming that the stock market index record is evidence that “make America grea...