Economy
June 19, 2008 -
A new study finds that older people are suffering the brunt of the bankruptcy and credit crisis.
June 16, 2008 -
Newspaper publisher McClatchy Co. announced today that it was slashing 1,400 jobs -- 10 percent of its national workforce -- in the largest budget cuts in its history.
May 15, 2008 -
A new study confirms what other reports have documented: workers who don't have unions lose out in their paychecks.
April 29, 2008 -
The RealtyTrac foreclosure report for the first quarter of 2008 is out.
April 23, 2008 -
Over the last two decades, government grants for college have been increasingly replaced by loans. While a big boon to banks and lenders, the privatization of student aid has put those wanting to go to college in an increasingly precarious position.
April 22, 2008 -
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released unemployment figures for March 2008. Since March 2007, unemployment has increased by more than 11% around the South, from an overall average of 4.5% to 5.0%.
April 20, 2008 -
Amidst the Tax Day groans across the South and country this week, there was one piece of good news for low-income taxpayers: this year, four states -- including Louisiana and North Carolina -- started giving an Earned Income Tax Credit. As Stateline.org reports: