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Jobs that used to require no post-secondary education are seeing 'degree inflation.'

The U.S. Census Bureau today released a burst of data on who works in which profession and where. We plucked out a few interesting facts from the release.

Consumer confidence at a five-year high according to new data this week. But what exactly makes us so confident?