DENVER — It will be a happier New Year for nearly 650,000 workers earning minimum wage. They're getting small raises in seven states that tie th...
Reporting from New York -- It's just not the same on this island as anywhere else. In Manhattan, a monthly parking space goes for $550. A magician fo...
The value of coffee has increased fifteen times from its price 234 years ago. This is a similar increase to the value of the dollar, based on the purc...
For a second consecutive year, Social Security recipients won't receive a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in 2011, according to the Social Security A...
WASHINGTON — Another year without an increase in Social Security retirement and disability benefits is creating a political backlash that has Pr...
As the "Summer of Recovery" draws to a close and labor day soon approaches, it's time to discuss what to do when after months of chronic unemployment, someone actually responds to one of the 2,000 applications you've submitted over the past months.
CNBC recently released their annual assessment of the top states in the nation for business. While Colorado's overall ranking of no. 3 remains unchan...
More than 10 million Americans moved from one county to another during 2008. The map below visualizes those moves. Click on any county to see coming...
"Keep the younger generation in the state, provide jobs for the population, send the illegal immigrants back to their countries. We need jobs to provi...
When it comes to aging in place, there's a lot to learn from West Virginia. It is the nation's second oldest state and with a burgeoning aging populat...
DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. workers have overwhelmingly rejected contract changes that would have allowed the automaker to cut labor costs, leaving...
If there's any silver lining to a recession -- albeit a thin one -- it's that consumer prices typically go down. Make no mistake, deflation is a sign ...
Here is a quick everyman's guide to economic statistics. Making sense of the figures demands a large measure of skepticism and an eye for misrepresentation and forgery.
Dear Santa, This year, I am not asking for a cure for breast cancer, or cures for world hunger, ignorance, the crappy world economy, homelessness, th...
As the consumer pricing index continues to fall, the State of Colorado will become the first state since 1938 to lower it's minimum wage. From the ...
Obama's endorsement of a one-time payment to Social Security recipients helps position him on the side of seniors at a time when many already are angry with him about health care reform.
By Conor O'Clery | GlobalPost DUBLIN -- Long classified as one of the more expensive countries in the world, Ireland is steadily becoming a cheaper...
DENVER — Colorado's lowest-paid workers could make even less money next year. That's because the state has an adjustable minimum wage that may b...
The vanishing COLA will squeeze many retirees hard. Social Security provides, on average, about 39 percent of income for retired households and more than 50 million people receive benefits.
Most New Yorkers may not have noticed their wallets bulging, but according to the federal Department of Labor, the cost of living in New York City dec...
At the rate we're going, the Times subscription rates will cross into the magic four-digit range before Obama exits the White House.
With some help from the Student Entrepreneur Society at the University of Michigan-Flint (especially Jennifer Moore), and an old 1950 Sears catalog pu...
The cost of living in the U.S. probably fell in October by the most in almost sixty years, while manufacturing and homebuilding sank deeper into a rec...
NEW YORK — Wall Street turned in another stunning finish Thursday and extended its unprecedented streak of volatility _ this time, to the upside...
WASHINGTON — Consumer prices were flat in September as retreating costs for gasoline, clothes and new cars helped to offset rising prices for fo...
