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This Monday, July 10, 2017, file photo shows a house for sale, in North Andover, Mass.

Mortgages rates rise: 30-year hits 4-month high 3.95 percent

December 17, 2018 at 1:56 p.m.

Long-term mortgage rates rose this week to the highest level in months. Mortgage giant Freddie Mac says the rate on benchmark 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages hit 3.95 percent, up from 3.90...

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., walks on Capitol Hill on Nov. 3, 2017. House Republicans on Nov. 6 kicked off four days of work transforming their 429-page proposal to revamp the nation's tax code into legislation they optimistically hope to complete by Thanksgiving.

Why debt from GOP tax cuts might impose a painful price

December 17, 2018 at 12:33 p.m.

When House Republicans proposed their tax-cut plan last week, critics noted that it came with a towering price: It would swell the nation's debt by $1.5 trillion at a time...

Flanked by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), President Donald Trump speaks about tax reform legislation during a meeting with members of the House Ways and Means Committee in the Cabinet Room at the White House, November 2, 2017 in Washington, DC.

Why tax plan might not put American firms’ overseas cash to work

December 17, 2018 at 11:59 a.m.

The House Republican tax bill is meant to send trillions in corporate profits overseas pouring back home and, in the process, give the U.S. economy a healthy boost. It may...

In this Oct. 6, 2015, file photo, job applications and information for the Gap Factory Store sit on a table during a job fair at Dolphin Mall in Miami. The number of Americans collecting unemployment benefits fell last week to the lowest level in 44 years, another sign that most workers enjoy job security.

U.S. unemployment claims fall to 222,000, lowest in 44 years

June 1, 2018 at 8:41 p.m.

The number of Americans collecting unemployment benefits fell last week to the lowest level since Richard Nixon was president. THE NUMBERS: The Labor Department said Thursday that claims for jobless...

Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland enters to lead the NAFTA council in discussion on the modernization of the North American Free Trade Agreement, Friday, Sept. 22, 2017, in Toronto.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce sounds alarm about a NAFTA pullout by Trump

August 22, 2019 at 1:11 a.m.

America's biggest business group is warning the Trump administration that a withdrawal from the North American Free Trade Agreement would be a "political and economic debacle" that would cost hundreds...

The American workplace is grueling, stressful and surprisingly hostile. So finds an in-depth study of 3,066 U.S. workers, released Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, by the Rand Corp., Harvard Medical School and the University of California, Los Angeles.

One-fifth of Americans find workplace hostile or threatening

June 2, 2018 at 11:35 p.m.

The American workplace is grueling, stressful and surprisingly hostile. So concludes an in-depth study of 3,066 U.S. workers by the Rand Corp., Harvard Medical School and the University of California,...

Amazon and Foxconn reflect a growing trend: Deliver it now

June 3, 2018 at 4:00 a.m.

In today's economy, speed is everything. Amazon's plans to add 50,000 jobs at a dozen warehouses across the United States and Foxconn's decision to build a $10 billion plant and...

In this Tuesday, May 23, 2017, photo, Hannah Waring, left, a student at Loudoun Valley High School, and Abby McDonough, a student at Liberty University, work in the strawberry stand at Wegmeyer Farms in Hamilton, Va. Waring and McDonough are working at Wegmeyer Farms for the summer. Summer jobs are vanishing as U.S. teens spend more time in school and face competition from older workers.

Kids today: They don’t work summer jobs the way they used to

June 3, 2018 at 1:26 p.m.

It was at Oregon's Timberline Lodge, later known as a setting in the horror movie "The Shining," where Patrick Doyle earned his first real paycheck. He was a busboy. The...

The Standard & Poor's CoreLogic Case-Shiller national home price index has fully recovered from the financial crisis.

U.S. home prices rise 5.6% in October, but Chicago market lagged

June 8, 2018 at 1:15 p.m.

U.S. home prices rose again in October as buyers bidding for scarce properties drove prices higher, but the Chicago market remained a laggard. The Standard & Poor's CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city...

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