Budget Battles
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Republicans Want Strings Attached to California Disaster Aid
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Biden Goes Out With a Bang in the Jobs Market
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Trump Privately Pushes Senators for ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
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Trump Considers Declaring National Emergency for Tariff Rollout
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Trump Unloads: Grievances, Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico
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Republicans Divided Over How to Pass Trump’s Agenda
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Trump Pushes Johnson to Victory as Speaker
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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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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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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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Trump Inherits a Solid Job Market. Can He Really Make It Better?
By Rob GarverFor Trump, who declared that he would be “the greatest jobs president God ever created” during his campaign and has specifically and repeatedly said that employment growth will be his singular focus...
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Here’s How Long It Takes for Your College Degree to Pay Off
While there has been much hand-wringing among policymakers about the rising cost of college and growing levels of student debt, most analysts agree that those who earn a college degree are better off...
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Why 2017 Should Be a Very Good Year for Finding a New Job
By Janna HerronThe U.S. economy last year added more than 2 million jobs, and 2017 should be an even better year for job seekers. Wages are poised to move higher, too. Employers expanded their payrolls by 156,000...
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How to Find a Job in the North Dakota Oil Boom
By Blaire Briody, The Fiscal TimesWilliston, North Dakota is in the center of a major oil boom and has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country – but what does it take to “make it” in oil country?
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A Kinder, Gentler Goldman Sachs?
By John Grgurich, The Fiscal TimesGoldman Sachs, Wall Street powerhouse and notorious “Vampire Squid,” might be the last organization you'd expect to be proactive in addressing the problem of overworked employees, but it’s doing just...
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Will Obamacare Woes Impact Health Care Stocks?
By Jeff Cox, CNBCPolitical embarrassment over Obamacare has not spilled over into the markets yet, but it could if matters continue to worsen. At this point, the Affordable Care Act, as it is more formally known,...
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Here’s Why Colleges Are Flunking Cost Control
By Richard Vedder, Minding the CampusThe College Board has released its annual report Trends in College Prices , and never has a seemingly boring document full of tables and graphs revealed more about American higher education. Five...
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5 Ways We’re Killing Ourselves at Work
By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal TimesIt’s a jungle out there. No, not on the unemployment line – but in the office, where scores of American employees are putting in excessive hours because they believe they must in order to keep their...