Month: February 2023

In this article STLAM-IT F GM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT United Auto Workers members on strike picket outside General Motors’ Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant on Sept. 25, 2019 in Detroit. Michael Wayland / CNBC DETROIT – As the United Auto Workers prepares for what are expected to be highly contentious negotiations with the Detroit
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Maskot | Maskot | Getty Images The income and wealth gaps between people of color and white households are wide, but state-run retirement programs are attempting to help workers find parity. As many as 67% of private-industry workers had access to retirement plans in 2020, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. A significant
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A new Bankrate ranking found the Austin, Texas, metro area is the best for first-time home purchasers. Roschetzkyistockphoto | Istock | Getty Images Prospective buyers looking to secure the purchase of their first home this spring will still face a difficult market. Yet there are signs some areas of the country may provide more opportunity
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Half of Medicare beneficiaries, about 30 million people, are enrolled in Medicare managed care plans such as Medicare Advantage (MA). And increasingly those plans are offering modest, but important, non-medical services to older adults living at home. These supplemental services are the only long-term care-type benefits most seniors will receive through Medicare. The assistance may
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What should happen to hundreds of millions of dollars in unclaimed money? That’s what was at stake in Delaware v. Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Today, the Supreme Court ruled against Delaware, holding that unclaimed MoneyGram checks should be returned to the states where they were issued. Background MoneyGram Payments Systems is one of the world’s largest
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The logo of Credit Suisse Group in Davos, Switzerland, on Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Credit Suisse “seriously breached its supervisory obligations” in the context of its business relationship with financier Lex Greensill and his companies, Swiss regulator FINMA concluded Tuesday. The embattled Swiss lender’s exposure to the London-based Greensill
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College can be difficult and expensive for all students, but for many young people of color, those challenges can seem insurmountable. The Marcy Lab School in Brooklyn, New York, however, has created an alternative path — a one-year program to help students get lucrative tech jobs that typically go to college graduates with a four-year
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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today announced $5.6 billion in funding will go to 1,200 communities through more than 2,400 grants to states, urban counties, insular areas, Washington, DC; Puerto Rico and local organizations across the country. These annual formula grants provide critical funding for a wide range of activities including
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In this article FOXA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Members of Rise and Resist participate in their weekly “Truth Tuesday” protest at News Corp headquarters on February 21, 2023 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images News | Getty Images Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said some anchors of the company’s
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