Eva-katalin | E+ | Getty Images If you’re one of the millions of Americans who worked fully or partially remote in 2022, you may be wondering about the home office deduction on your taxes. While remote work has declined since the early days of the pandemic, nearly 30% of employees were telecommuting in January, according
Westend61 | Westend61 | Getty Images The job market continued a gradual cooling in February but largely remains advantageous for workers, according to labor data issued Tuesday. Job openings, a barometer of employer demand for workers, fell by 632,000 to 9.9 million in February — the lowest level since May 2021, according to the Bureau
There’s a wide variance of life expectancies among the 50 states in the U.S., according to a recent report prepared by Assurance, an insurance technology platform that helps consumers with decisions related to insurance and financial well-being. Figure 1 below shows the 10 states with the highest life expectancy, starting with Hawaii, the state with
The IRS has announced it will open several Taxpayer Assistance Centers (TACs) around the country this Saturday, April 8, for face-to-face help available from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. An additional Saturday opening is planned for May 13. “During these special openings, taxpayers can get walk-in service for in-person help on many tax matters,” said
A new report by data analytics provider CoreLogic reveals in many ways a tale of two very different housing markets. At one extreme, the West is slowing, and at the other extreme, the East is rising. Even as home prices grew for the 133rd straight month in February, the 4.4% increase still was nothing to
In this article GM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A GMC pickup truck is displayed for sale on a lot at a General Motors dealership on January 05, 2023 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images DETROIT – About 5,000 white-collar workers at General Motors opted to participate in a buyout program that
In this article BA TSLA BURL PRU Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Etsy website Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Etsy — The e-commerce company’s shares rose 3.9% after Piper Sandler upgraded them to overweight from neutral. The firm said that it thinks Etsy’s marketplace strengths will “help reaccelerate active buyer growth.”
In 2011, I started a personal finance blog, Making Sense of Cents, to track my journey to becoming debt-free — and it took off fast. Within a few years, I was earning enough to quit my 9-to-5 job to focus on my business, and I had paid off $40,000 in student debt. Today, I live
On the heels of the Great Resignation, some workers are even more motivated to leave their job in search of a better work-life balance. To that point, 56% of the workforce is likely to look for a new job in the year ahead, up from 51% in 2022, according to Bankrate’s 2023 job-seeker survey. In
New government projections estimate significant increases in both overall and out-of-pocket costs for home care, nursing facilities, and continuing care communities (CCRCs) through this decade. The projected steep rise in costs will lead to tough decisions for both consumers and government. The latest annual projections, by analysts at the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Gwyneth Paltrow’s ski accident trial was not as alluring as the Johnny Depp And Amber Heard case, but it still attracted people who couldn’t look away. At a minimum, it was worth losing a half day of skiing to check it out. In the end, a Park City, Utah, jury deliberated for less than three
New York City’s real estate market reacted strongly to the economic uncertainty of 2023’s first quarter. Many buyers throughout our market put their plans on hold in the wake of the 50 basis point increase in the Fed rate during the month of December (which followed several 75 basis point increases). Mortgage rates continued to
In this article WWE EDR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT World Wrestling Entertainment Networks and streaming services need to get ready for a media rights smackdown. World Wrestling Entertainment is due to negotiate new media deals this year, a process made all the more interesting by its planned combination with UFC to form a
A Credit Suisse Group AG bank branch in Bern, Switzerland, on Thursday, March 16, 2023. Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shareholders are gathering at Credit Suisse‘s annual general meeting Tuesday to demand answers and accountability over its controversial takeover by UBS. A police presence was established early Tuesday at the venue as shareholders
Guests attend a pool party in a penthouse apartment in New York. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Manhattan real estate sales fell 38% in the first quarter, as buyers and sellers battled over prices and mortgage rates remained volatile, according to new reports. Total sales volume fell to $4.4 billion in the quarter,
Aaronamat | Istock | Getty Images Over the last 15 years or so, the interest rates you could earn on your cash were very low. And while the Federal Reserve has changed that with a recent series of interest rate hikes aimed at combating high inflation, many savers still do not know they could be
Judge Thomas Hardiman of the Third Circuit wrote approvingly of Tax Court Judge Albert “Scholar Al” Lauber’s opinion in the case of Mitchel Skolnick. It is a large dollar hobby loss opinion – horses of courses – that may have implications in the future. In approving the IRS denial of the over $3,000.000 in losses
The storied mansion where former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy stayed following the assassination in 1963 of her husband, President John F. Kennedy, is listed for $26.5 million. She bought the 18th-century residence in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., known as the Baker House, to be her personal home, but decided to relocate a year
In this article DIS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Bob Iger, CEO, Disney, during CNBC interview, Feb. 9, 2023. Randy Shropshire | CNBC Bob Iger on Monday called Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ actions against The Walt Disney Company retaliatory, “anti-business” and “anti-Florida.” The feud between DeSantis and the company escalated earlier Monday, when the
In this article TSLA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Tesla Superchargers are seen at a charging station on March 17, 2023 in Beijing, China. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images Tesla on Sunday posted its first-quarter vehicle production and delivery report for 2023. Here are the key numbers from the electric vehicle maker: