Economy

Juan Sorto called the student-loan process "freaking confusing" — and he's not the only one. Paying off debt in the US can be a lifelong process.

"Domestic labor is labor," said Laura Danger, who has two children in addition to a full-time job. It's a message that's resonated on TikTok.

The "subminimum wage" allows restaurant owners to outsource their payroll expenses to customers, one expert argues, and hurts tipped workers.

For Democrats, the labor shortage is giving workers much-needed power. For Republicans, it's the free market solving the minimum-wage problem.

Saturday is the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, and some companies have realized if they don't take a stand, they'll lose out on workers.

It's unclear if Sen. Joe Manchin will take even a nibble. He's said he prefers to start "from scratch" on negotiations.

Since Biden reformed Public Service Loan Forgiveness last fall, thousands of teachers, military, and other nonprofit or public workers can get relief.

Colorado and Pennsylvania both saw quitting ease in November. For most states, like New Hampshire, pandemic-era quitting got even more intense.

Rising home prices, more expensive mortgages, and a significant lack of homes for sale, could mean many buyers sit this spring homebuying season out.

Even with union approval at a high, and strikes all over the country, the average union membership rate is 10.3%. In South Carolina, it's just 1.7%.

Rep. Virginia Foxx, the top Republican on education, said Biden "has had a year to come up with a plan" to resume student-loan payments.

A $1.8T Build Back Better compromise Manchin offered the White House in December is off the table. "We'll just start with a clean sheet of paper."

Mortgages are getting more expensive and demand is still high. It could make it harder for millennials during their prime homebuying years.

The pandemic housing boom is still raging, but getting a mortgage will get much pricier this year.

The Student Borrower Protection Center found private creditors have "systematically lied to borrowers" about discharging their private student loans.

Despite anti-discrimination laws passed in the 1960s, it's "a market failure" says one researcher — and the largest gap in more than 100 years.

Biden has been in office for a year, and some of his campaign promises — like $10,000 in student loan forgiveness — remain unfulfilled.

In 2021, even as strikes broke out across the country and workers turned their backs on low-paying jobs, union membership still fell.

Initial claims totaled 286,000 last week, the highest level since mid-October and landing well above the median forecast of 250,000 claims.

Voters are 'really going to start to kick off in earnest in April', if Boris Johnson doesn't tackle rising costs and taxes

The revival of the expanded child tax credit has been thrown into serious jeopardy due to resistance from Sen. Joe Manchin.

"It's clear to me that we're going to have to probably break it up," he said. It's unclear when Democrats will coalesce on a smaller bill.