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President Barack Obama took Labor Day to sign an executive order that will require federal contractors to provide employees with up to seven days of… Read More
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The U.S. inspector general estimates that 25,226 households occupying public housing units exceed the Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD)’s 2014 eligibility income limits. In… Read More
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Why is housing so expensive in some cities, and relatively cheap in others? Place the blame on land-use restrictions put in place by local governments…. Read More
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Something’s amiss with the world’s economy. And it goes way beyond stock-market woes in China and elsewhere. Economists point to debt and low economic growth… Read More
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NEW ORLEANS—Millennials are moving to New Orleans by the thousands, and it’s not just for Bourbon Street. Since Hurricane Katrina, young entrepreneurs have flooded the… Read More
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Good news for those loading up the Tahoe to get out of town this Labor Day weekend: Gas prices are at a record low. The… Read More
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When you meet confident, Emmy-winning Michael Henneberger, it’s hard to believe that just seven years ago he was diagnosed with both panic disorder and major depressive… Read More
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In mid-June, China’s Shanghai Composite Index was up a dazzling 60 percent since the beginning of the year. It was the highest level in more… Read More
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In an analysis of Internal Revenue Service income statistics and migration data, Americans for Tax Reform—an advocacy group for lower and simpler taxes—concluded that in… Read More
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About 5 million California residents left the Golden State during the past decade, marking an “unprecedented” number according to a report released this week. The… Read More
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A brand new taxi design was unveiled this week to mixed fanfare in New York City, known as the Taxi of Tomorrow Over the next… Read More
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The Bureau of Labor Statistic’s August jobs report showed little change in the labor market. The payroll survey reported employers added a net 173,000 jobs… Read More
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After Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla announced in June that the island cannot pay its $72 billion debt, there has been an effort to… Read More
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Private sector wages are not reduced in right-to-work states as union advocates have argued, according to a new report released Tuesday by The Heritage Foundation…. Read More
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Wal-Mart has been reducing the number of hours employees work in some of its stores following a wage increase earlier this year, according to a report… Read More
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Joe Del Bosque has been a farmer for most of his life. He believes that regulations are one reason why he may be losing his… Read More
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Back in grad school (not all that long ago), we pondered whether a central bank should target equity (or other asset) prices to conduct monetary… Read More
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A job training program for disadvantaged youth—sounds like a good thing. Except maybe when it is plagued by violent crime and doesn’t boost participants’ wages or… Read More
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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) just issued a ruling likely to destroy the franchise business model. To understand how far-reaching this could be, it… Read More
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The Federal Reserve opened its annual symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyo., Thursday. Its experts have assembled to discuss “inflation dynamics.” Concurrently, another group of economists… Read More
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Airplane manufacturer Boeing is suggesting that it will lay off “several hundred” workers by the end of the year unless lawmakers resurrect the now-defunct Export-Import Bank…. Read More
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As the Federal Reserve summer symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyo. begins, I thought I’d set the record straight. The Federal Reserve cannot just set interest rates…. Read More
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Next month will mark seven years of federal government conservatorship of the two government-sponsored mortgage giants, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. To cap off this… Read More
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Want to know what the future of the restaurant industry looks like? It could come in the form of a San Francisco fast food restaurant named… Read More
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It’s too early to know if the stock market drop is just one of the periodic corrections by which the market reallocates capital to more… Read More
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To give perspective, China is the world’s second largest economy, as well as the second largest importer. It is the largest trading nation for 75… Read More
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Stock markets in the United States plunged over the past week, and many are blaming a place far away from home: China. Investors around the… Read More
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Free employee meals may be slapped with a price tag as the Internal Revenue Service inches closer to deciding whether to tax the complimentary perk…. Read More
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U.S. stock markets plummeted Monday, furthering a global market decline that has eliminated nearly $10 trillion from international shares as concerns grow over China’s economic… Read More
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The nation’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly food stamps) experienced mixed results in 2014. Participation and average benefit amounts fell slightly from the previous… Read More
