Articles filed under Economy
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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...
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What a weak dollar means in 2018: staycations and local shoppingJan 07, 2018 12:00 am - U.S. consumers may soon begin to feel some pain from the dollar's downturn, although the recent slide in the world's main reserve currency isn't bad news for everyone in...
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Behind the Oregon panic about pumping gasJan 07, 2018 12:00 am - A new law that took effect last week in Oregon will allow residents in rural counties to pump their own gas - a divergence from the state's decades-long history of havin...
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The U.S. has one of the stingiest minimum wage policies of any wealthy nationJan 01, 2018 12:00 am - Minimum wage workers in 18 states will see larger paychecks starting Jan. 1, according to the Economic Policy Institute, thanks primarily to minimum wage increases appro...