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The income needed to exit the bottom 99% of U.S. taxpayers hit $515,371 in 2017, according to Internal Revenue Service data released this week. That's...
A coalition of nonprofit health-care providers is investing in the notion that ample paychecks, stable housing and nutritious food are no less critical to well-being...
New figures show that U.S. retail sales slowed in September for the first time in seven months, as consumers spent less on cars, building materials...
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a third from Harvard University won the 2019 Nobel Prize in economics on...
