Economy
July 1, 2008 -
National average gas prices, July 1 2007: $2.97/gallon National average gas prices, July 1 2008: $4.09/gallon Source: AAA Fuel Gauge Report
June 25, 2008 -
Economists say that recessions hurt African-American and Latino workers the most because they are "the last hired and the first fired."
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.