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ThinkstockWhile carrying some student loan debt may be inevitable, higher and higher balances can strain finances for a decade or…
ThinkstockUnemployment in the United States dropped to 6.7% in February, well below the 10% level it reached at the worst…
ThinkstockThere are at least two stories about the skyrocketing cost of limes: one is a poor harvest in Mexico, and…
ThinkstockWe now have the report for personal income and spending for the month of February. This data is now effectively…
By International Monetary Fund [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsThe International Monetary Fund will lend the financially crippled Ukraine government a…
ThinkstockIf everything goes as expected, the state of Connecticut will become the first state to enact legislation raising the state’s…
ThinkstockThe unusually cold and snowy weather that persisted through the first months of 2014 is likely to trim 0.4% from…
ThinkstockThe government calls them “people who are employed part time for economic reasons.” In other words, these people want full-time…
ThinkstockAmerican’s views of the U.S. economy cannot be measured as uniform. Income and job prospects vary from region to region…
ThinkstockDrought is so severe in some parts of California that scientists have observed that conditions may not significantly improve for…
ThinkstockThere are several states in which more than 20% of the population cannot always afford to feed themselves. Most of…
squirrel83, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its data on unemployment by city for January. In general,…
States, often burdened by budget deficits that grew during the recession, are not getting tax receipts from some of America's…
ThinkstockHouston topped the 50 largest American cities in terms of job creation over the two years that ended December 31,…
ThinkstockIn a headline that hardly sounds like good news, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced today that the unemployment rate…
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