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Clifford Goff, a bezel assembler, transferring the front end of a Chevrolet Cruze during the assembly process at Jamestown Industries, in Youngstown, Ohio, on Nov. 28, 2018. The plant is hoping to secure new business to keep operating after it was announced a nearby General Motors factory would shutter.

Trump struggles to create blue-collar jobs in key parts of the U.S.: ‘I don’t think he’s done anything to stop the bleeding’

August 22, 2019 at 10:27 a.m.

David Green scored a coveted seat in the House of Representatives chamber to watch President Donald Trump's State of the Union address on Tuesday night. He drove five hours from...

A customer uses an ATM inside a JPMorgan Chase & Co. bank branch in New York in January.

A new era: What the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hike means for you

May 2, 2018 at 10:14 a.m.

The U.S. Federal Reserve is almost certain to hike interest rates Wednesday to the highest level in a decade: 1.5 to 1.75 percent. For retirees like Martin Nicholes III of...

There’s a serious proposal to give babies born in the United States $20,000 (or more)

May 23, 2018 at 6:32 p.m.

Forget baby showers. There's a proposal to give every newborn in the United States a "Baby Bond" account with somewhere between $500 to $50,000 in cash. Neither the kids nor...

With the stock market surging and the Dow Jones trading above 23,000, Americans are bullish on investing.

Americans are giddy about stocks again as Dow tops 23,000

June 1, 2018 at 8:16 p.m.

When the Dow topped 23,000 for the first time ever Tuesday, Adam Cooper was sitting in class at Howard University grinning. Cooper, a junior, had his Schwab trading app open,...

Blank Social Security checks are run through a printer at the U.S. Treasury printing facility in Philadelphia. Social Security checks are going up 2 percent in 2018, the U.S. government announced Friday.

Social Security checks to rise 2 percent in 2018, the biggest increase in years

June 1, 2018 at 11:06 p.m.

Social Security checks are going up 2 percent in 2018, the U.S. government announced Friday. It's the first substantial raise in years. More than 66 million Americans receive Social Security...

FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 24, 2015, file photo, pedestrians walk past the New York Stock Exchange. On Thursday, June 8, 2017, the Federal Reserve reports on household wealth for the January-March quarter.

Minorities, Americans without college degrees showed greatest gains in wealth

June 2, 2018 at 6:22 a.m.

Nearly all Americans have now emerged from the Great Recession with more money than before -- with African American and Hispanic families and Americans without college degrees showing the greatest...

Black Americans, as a group, have struggled to move up the economic ladder.

African Americans are the only U.S. racial group earning less than in 2000

June 2, 2018 at 10:10 a.m.

African Americans were worse off financially in 2016 than they were in 2000. The median income for an African American household was $39,490 last year, according to U.S. Census Bureau...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

The feel-good Hallmark Channel is booming in the age of Trump

June 2, 2018 at 9:52 p.m.

There's a very good chance that you or someone in your close circle of friends watches the Hallmark Channel. Ratings are booming. Hallmark was the only non-news channel in the...

The ‘business president’ couldn’t even keep CEOs on his side

June 2, 2018 at 10:40 p.m.

The businessman president just lost his business leaders. It's a deep blow. On Wednesday, so many executives were ready to quit President Donald Trump's two business panels - the Strategy...

A screen above the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shows the closing number for the Dow Jones industrial average, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017. The DJIA closed above 22,000 points for the first time, driven by a big gain in Apple on an otherwise mixed day for the market.

What’s behind the Dow’s stunning rise to 22,000?

June 3, 2018 at 2:10 a.m.

The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 22,000 Wednesday, setting a record high in what has become one of its longest bull markets in history. The extraordinary rise of the...

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