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"Why can't I make ends meet? Why can't I make this math work?"

By Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
June 28, 2018
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In her new book, Alissa Quart examines the lives of middle-class families struggling to get by.

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A pay increase for entry-level jobs

By Mitchell Hartman
June 01, 2018
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ADP reports entry-level wages for 16- to 24-year-olds rose 5.2 percent in the past year, about double the increase for workers' wages overall.

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The best advice for college students unlucky enough to graduate into a recession: Be flexible

By Scott Tong
May 24, 2018
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While studies suggest recession graduates tend to fall behind their nonrecession peers in terms of salary and don’t catch up for 10 to 20 years, there are ways to catch up more quickly and make up the gap.

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How good is it for the class of 2018?

By Mitchell Hartman
May 23, 2018
Saul Rivera has just graduated from the University of Texas-Austin with a degree in astronomy. He's been applying for entry-level jobs at planetariums, museums and observatories around the country.
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This year's college graduates enter one of the best job markets since the Great Recession.

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Supreme Court ruling makes it harder for workers to take legal action against their employers

By Kimberly Adams
May 21, 2018

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What really led to Trump's victory?

By Sabri Ben-Achour and Janet Nguyen
April 27, 2018
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One political science professor says that the "left behind" argument isn't what really drove the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.

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Shanghai caps population to combat "big city diseases"

By Jennifer Pak
January 17, 2018
Two out of five residents in Shanghai are migrants, who mainly take up the jobs others don't want. The government is trying to stop migrants from poorer regions from flooding megacities.
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China's Cabinet has decreed that the city's population should be 25 million — barely more than it is today.

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Cutting the federal income tax rate is just a start, some economists say

By Andy Uhler
November 09, 2017

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How restrictions on class action lawsuits affect the arbitration industry

By Tracey Samuelson
October 25, 2017

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