Budget Battles
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Trump Ratchets Up His Tariff Threats
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Trump Picks Project 2025 Architect to Oversee Budget
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Trump Taps Hedge Fund Mogul for Treasury Secretary
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Trump Picks a New Attorney General Nominee After Gaetz Withdraws
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Musk and Ramaswamy Outline Plan to Slash Federal Workforce
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Trump Picks TV’s Dr. Oz to Run Medicare and Medicaid
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Johnson Signals Plan for Looming Shutdown Deadline
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Looking for a New Job? These Are the Best Cities for You
If you’re on the hunt for a good job, think warm thoughts and pack sunglasses.
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Hoping for a Big Raise Next Year? Here’s How Much You’ll Probably Get
A new report sheds light on how big a raise most workers will be getting next year.
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A New Report Shows Why The 10-Year Jobs Crisis Is Effectively Over
A new report by the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution has good news: "With [yesterday's] employment report, we can report that the national jobs gap relative to November 2007 has closed (...
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The Real Reason Teens Don’t Have Summer Jobs Anymore
Toiling all summer as a camp counselor or lifeguard used to be a rite of passage for American teenagers, but they’ve been dropping out of the labor force for years.
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Women Are Better Investors Than Men. Here Are 3 Reasons Why
Female investors outperform males on average, and new report attributes the better performance to three traits more common in female investors.
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3 New Benefits That Could Be Coming to Your Company
As America flirts with full employment, companies have to work a bit harder to attract workers. A new survey shows that companies are becoming more generous with their benefits packages.
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Are You Being Paid Fairly? Here's How to Find Out
After nearly a decade of stagnation, wages are starting to rise as a strong job market (finally) gives American workers more power in negotiations.
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Do Demographics Dictate Economic Destiny?
A new Morning Consult poll suggests that fewer Americans are spending their tax refunds. Instead, they’re socking the money away or paying off debt.
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The 10 College Majors Employers Want Most This Year
By Janna HerronThe proportion of employers planning to hire recent college graduates hit a decade-high this year. Here are the 10 majors most in demand.
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What Will It Take to Finally Get US Workers’ Pay Growing Again?
Workers of all political stripes must be frustrated by the fact that the economic expansion has yet to deliver the kind of wage gains that have been long promised.
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It's Not the Skills Gap: Why So Many Jobs Are Going Unfilled
By Sophie Quinton, StatelineLE SUEUR, Minn. — Customers can’t get enough of Cambria’s quartz countertops, and the million-square-foot production facility here is racing to keep up. Under bright lights and high ceilings,...
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Why You Need to Learn a New Skill Right Now
While it’s clear that going to college is the key to success in the American economy, it’s also become increasingly obvious that learning can’t stop once you’ve got that diploma. In today’s workplace...
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Why 'Tough Love' for the Unemployed May Do More Harm Than Good
By Rob GarverA recent study suggests that a lot of pain inflicted on the unemployed during the years following the Great Recession, ostensibly for their own good, was pointless.
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The IRS Wants Its Share of the Multi-Billion Dollar Sharing Economy
By Janna HerronThe gig economy keeps growing, and that’s a problem for the IRS. More than 2.5 million taxpayers earned income in 2014 through sharing economy businesses such as Uber, Airbnb and Etsy, according to a...
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Good News, Job Seekers: Starting Salaries Are Getting a Boost
By Janna HerronWith skilled professionals in high demand and short supply, more employers are willing to negotiate compensation with potential hires," said Paul McDonald, senior executive director at Robert Half,...