Woman with hands raised in the classroom Fg Trade | E+ | Getty Images President Joe Biden has proposed expanding free community college across the U.S., and other initiatives to lower higher education costs. The … Read more
Stephanie Land Source: Simon and Schuster Stephanie Land’s daughter, Emilia, was 7 months old when Land was forced to leave her volatile partner. What came next for the single mother was homelessness and food insecurity … Read more
In his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden celebrated his administration’s progress in the fight against inflation. “Wages keep going up and inflation keeps coming down,” Biden said in the annual speech before Congress. Inflation has cooled while wages have ticked higher, but … Read more
Occidental Petroleum on Monday agreed to buy CrownRock, a major privately held energy producer that operates in the Permian Basin, for $12 billion. The deal is latest in a spate of consolidation in the U.S … Read more
U.S. President Joe Biden stops to talk to journalists about new Russian sanctions as he departs the White House on February 20, 2024 in Washington, DC. Biden is traveling to California to attend campaign receptions … Read more
A sign posted outside a restaurant looking to hire workers in Miami on May 5, 2023. Joe Raedle | Getty Images News | Getty Images Unemployment among Black women fell in February as the number … Read more
Bill Stovall in his house in Cumming, Georgia. Every morning, Bill Stovall wakes up at around 8:30 a.m. The first thing he does is speak to his wife’s ashes, which are in a pink urn … Read more
Donald Trump, left, and President Joe Biden during the final presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, on Oct. 22, 2020. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI | AFP | Getty Images With looming tax law changes slated … Read more
At a forum discussing central bank independence, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell emphasized the necessity for the central bank to operate independently from political influence as it addresses persistent inflation. In his speech delivered to … Read more
Something’s Gotta Give at the Fed TL/DR “Inflation has to stabilize higher than 2%, unemployment must baseline above 5%, or GDP must go significantly lower. Something has to give.” Questions were asked about the rationale … Read more
