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Jill Crooks of Arrowtown and daughter Maggie Crooks of Kapiti attempt to hitchhike home after all train service were cancelled following a magnitude 6.2 earthquake on August 16, 2013 in Wellington, New Zealand.Photo: Hagen Hopkins (Getty…

Shoppers in San Francisco on Dec. 21, 2022.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMonths of high inflation have weighed heavily on households.As of December, 64% of Americans were living paycheck to paycheck, according to a recent …

Bloomberg Creative | Bloomberg Creative Photos | Getty Images'Historically large' hike in delinquencies and defaultsU.S. Department of Education Undersecretary James Kvaal said in a recent court filing that if the government isn't allowed…

To help close the racial wealth gap, the U.S. government should pay $14 trillion in reparations to Black Americans, according to William A. Darity and A. Kirsten Mullen, authors of "From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in…

Image: Gabrielle Lurie (AP)Be on time for your next Lyft, as The Verge reports that the ridesharing company quietly added a new fee that’ll charge riders for making their drivers wait. First discovered by Techcrunch in December, Lyft’s move…

An EV charger in downtown Los AngelesImage: Eugene Garcia (AP)To be blunt, public EV charging sucks. Chargers can be unreliable and nonoperative when you need them, a problem that’s hampering EV adoption. We need more chargers, specifically…

The rise of pay transparency laws in the United States could change how the nation's workers negotiate their annual salaries in today's fast-changing labor market.As layoffs mount in the face of recession fears, the increased number of job…

ESG has become one of the most polarizing topics for companies and across Wall Street. But billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones says that a lot of the pushback simply comes down to how it is framed by critics."ESG is incorrectly…

Residents drop off Covid-19 PCR tests at a testing site run by the Centers for Disease Control, Federal Emergency Management Agency and eTrueNorth in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5, 2022.Eric Lee | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesWhen Christopher…

Widespread medical debt is a uniquely American problem. Roughly 40% of U.S. adults have at least $250 in medical debt, according to a survey conducted by Kaiser Family Foundation."The history of medical debt is basically a history of the…