Women who have come out on top in the job market may not find similar success in the marriage market. As the struggle for equal pay for equal work gains ground, there may still be psychological factors undermining the link...
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It is becoming more common for wives to be paid more than their husbands.
Higher-Paid Women Less-Married, More-Divorced
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Construction crews work on new homes being built in San Ramon, California, on April 12, 2013.
Rentals on Fire — Construction, That Is: Driving Housing
The U.S. housing market looked even healthier today on growing demand for rental properties. Data released by the Commerce Department showed builders broke ground on 1.04 million new homes in March at an annualized rate, the most since June 2008....
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Economy: There’s No Business Like Shoe Business
How’s the economy going? Ask a shoe saleswoman. Worse than flat. Heel-busted. Shoes were off — sales that is — at the end of February by 5.1 percent year over year, according to Census Bureau data. (Who knew the head-counters...
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Mariachi musicians sing and play as they go from house to house to encourage people to vote on election day in Sun Valley's Latino district, Los Angeles County on Nov. 6, 2012.
Top-10 Congressional Districts: Republicans and Hispanics
My colleague John McCormick writes today about how the surging Hispanic population may shape Republican thinking on policy issues including a rewrite of immigration laws, following a poor election year for the party among that voting bloc. Hispanics account for...
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Graduates wearing mortarboards attend Syracuse University's commencement ceremony.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 40.6 Million
That’s the number of Americans age 25 and older in 2012 whose highest level of education was a bachelor’s degree, according to the Census Bureau. That’s about one-fifth of the civilian non-institutionalized population of 204.6 million, Census data show. Women...
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Trucks sit outside a row of temporary housing units for oil workers in Tioga, North Dakota.
North Dakota Fastest-Growing, Florida Closes in on New York
North Dakota, where an energy boom has produced the nation’s lowest unemployment rate, is adding people at a faster rate than any other state. That’s according to an estimate released today by the U.S. Census Bureau, which said today that...
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Supporters chant for four more years while President Barack Obama speaks at a fundraising reception in Baltimore on June 12, 2012.
Obama: Debt Like Dinner Tab Unpaid
Debt, nobody wants their hands on it. It’s like that steak dinner ordered by the people who left you the table, the president says. President Barack Obama, in running a campaign ad highlighting the Massachusetts of former Governor Mitt Romney...
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A man marks his ballot in a voting booth.
Voting Red-’Hot’ for Obama, Romney
When they talk about turnout, listen up. With a contest as close as the expected choice between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney — registered voters are split 46 percent for Obama, 45 percent for Romney in the newest Gallup...
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Richard Rubin
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