Finances
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Does a $15 minimum wage help workers? Target experiment hurts loyal employees
Bonnie Furlong started working at Target more than seven years ago. Today, however, she’s making the same as new hires…
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Pre-pandemic economy reached unprecedented heights for black, Hispanic Americans, new data shows
New data from the Federal Reserve show that the pre-pandemic economy was reaching unrivaled heights of prosperity for Americans across…
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Unemployment drops to 7.9 percent as economy adds 600K jobs
Unemployment falls to 7.9% in September with the addition of 661,000 jobs was the good news announced by the Labor…
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Dave Says – Many benefits to budgeting
Need some financial advice? Debt and income crisis? Pay off the house mortgage first? Check cashing? Taxes? Credit Cards? Check…
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Hobby Lobby stores announce plan to increase minimum wage to $17 an hour
The Christian-owned Hobby Lobby retail chain is increasing its starting wage for all full-time employees to $17 an hour beginning…
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Unemployment compensation is taxable; Have tax withheld now and avoid a tax-time surprise
With millions of Americans now receiving taxable unemployment compensation, many of them for the first time, the Internal Revenue Service…
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Regional economy is improving as unemployment dips to 5.8%
Although the economies of Missouri and Kansas were hit hard by the pandemic, things are improving as unemployment drops across…
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Who believes in the S&P 500 rally?
Last month the S&P 500 reached a new all time high. Crazily this has come at the same time that…
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Dave Says – Teachable moments are valuable at any age
Need some financial advice? Debt and income crisis? Pay off the house mortgage first? Check cashing? Taxes? Credit Cards? Check…
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As economy roars back, S&P Index regains all covid losses
Viewed as one indicator of the overall health of the U.S. economy and equities market, the benchmark S&P 500 stock…
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