One of the puzzling aspects to the recovery since the Great Recession is that U.S. manufacturing has ticked up but U.S. manufacturing jobs have not. The prime example of why …
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It’s a peculiar situation to see the numbers on the economy and America’s richest one percent looking pretty good. Unfortunately, the numbers at the opposite end of the economic spectrum …
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On June 23rd Britons head to the polls to vote on whether to stay in the European Union or cut loose and go their own way economically. In reality this …
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Employment numbers tend to become a political football. Democrats point to nearly eight years of steady job gains, while Republicans point to declining labor participation rates and underemployment. Neither side …
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It seems as though employers have a love/hate relationship with telecommuting. The promise, which was great back in the early to mid-1990s, never really seemed to materialize as a major …
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For the most part, Americans are in poor financial shape. Even when people have money, many don’t know how to track or invest it. That makes them easy pickings for …
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Throughout the primaries, Donald Trump regularly boasted that the polls showed him with a substantial lead over his rivals. And the polls that didn’t? Well, those he brushed off as …
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No one likes a killjoy at the party and the party is in full swing on Wall Street today, with the Dow up 200 points before lunch and the S&P …
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Americans still aren’t saving enough and are carrying too much credit card debt. Yet the Great Recession, still less than a decade in our past, made permanent changes in our …
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Over the years we’ve watched airline travel turn from a pampered luxury to a nightmare of claustrophobia and wait times. When you look at pictures of airliners back in the …