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This presidential election cycle has brought enormous attention to the issues of free trade and manufacturing job loss in America. Some of the focus has…

A recent analysis supplied by the National Partnership for Women & Families analyzed the pay of full time, year round employees in the fifty states. As…

Many economists have expressed concern regarding the unsatisfactory rates of growth being posted by the U.S. U.S. economic growth has consistently fallen…

For generations, U.S. population and economic activity has been moving away from the Northeast and the Rust Belt and toward the South and the West. The…

Despite steady job growth, the pace of raises and other compensation gains for U.S. workers has stagnated over the past year. As reported in the Wall…

The share of foreign born workers in the U.S. labor force continues to rise. According to recently released Labor Department statistics, the labor force…

During the final month of twenty fifteen, African-American unemployment in the U.S. declined to its lowest mark since September two thousand and seven.…

According to a new report from Oxfam International, the world’s sixty two richest billionaires enjoy as much wealth as the bottom half of the world’s…

Let’s say your employer tells you that you will be receiving a bonus. That feels good, not just because of the money, but also because it’s an indication…

The International Energy Agency recently pointed to a remarkable recovery in oil prices and suggests that we may have already seen the bottom in oil…

There is a reason that we have Social Security. President Franklin Roosevelt submitted his Social Security proposal to Congress in early nineteen thirty…

Many in Silicon Valley and other tech hotspots around the nation speak of the gig economy – a circumstance in which work consists of a series of…

See that gold ring on your finger or those gold earrings in your rearview mirror – they’re worth more now. As indicated by CNNMoney, a combination of…

Remember when we were young and looked forward to those summer unpaid internships. The goal was to make connections, to learn a business, and to add to…

One of the reasons for near-term economic optimism is the nation’s housing market. Thanks in part to remarkably low mortgage rates, buyer interest remains…

After a number of years of remarkably low inflation, at least according to official government statistics, inflation appears to be firming in America. In…

There has been a lot of focus on student debt recently. There is evidence that some Americans have chosen to forego a higher education out of a desire to…

It is said that patience is a virtue. Recent research indicates that it’s also good economics. A recent survey of nearly six hundred people, all aged over…

Census Bureau estimates of household income in twenty fourteen indicate that the typical American family earned a bit less than fifty three thousand seven…

Toy piano composer David Smooke, Anne Thomas at The Stoop, “An Evening with Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald,” and the short film “Charlotte”When you ask David…