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Terry Savage: What to know for Medicare open enrollment

By Terry Savage

September 25, 2026 at 5:15 p.m.

Here’s a look at the headline changes seniors will be forced to confront. And in...

Terry Savage: Why the national debt should concern us

By Terry Savage

September 21, 2026 at 11:15 a.m.

The U.S. national debt now exceeds $40 trillion — a MEGO number, which stands for...

Terry Savage: Login process changing at TreasuryDirect

By Terry Savage

September 21, 2026 at 9:55 a.m.

These government IOUs are the safest repository for “chicken money” — money you cannot afford...

Unemployment claims| <a href=https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf>Initial unemployment claims seasonally adjusted</a> (week ending May 23, 2020): 2,123,000</p> |

<p>More than 2.1 million people filed a new unemployment claim for the week ending May 23. It indicates that companies that retained their staff through March and April may have needed to close in mid-May, or may have faced a slowdown that affected their ability to keep people employed.</p>

Restaurants can’t find workers even amid historic unemployment

By Bloomberg News

August 31, 2020 at 4:05 p.m.

Not even the greatest surge in joblessness in 80 years is easing the fast-food industry's...

Compensation costs | According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, wages and salaries <a href=https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/eci.pdf>increased</a> by 2.9% in the year ending June 2020, while compensation and benefit costs increased 2.7% and 2.2%, respectively, in the same period.

Here’s how moving to work remotely could affect your taxes

By The New York Times

August 29, 2020 at 7:26 a.m.

If you decided to ride out the pandemic at your out-of-state vacation house or with...

‘The big short 2.0’: How hedge funds profited off the pain of malls

By The New York Times

August 29, 2020 at 7:24 a.m.

Catie McKee was nervous. It was last October, and the 31-year-old hedge fund analyst, who...

MORE FREQUENT AND DEEPER CLEANING OF HOTELS | Hotel housekeeping staff already have a pretty tough job, and as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, they're having to do deeper and more frequent cleanings of hotel rooms and facilities, also often using electrostatic sprayers.

Southwest Airlines needs ‘business to double in order to break even,’ CEO says

By Kyle Arnold

August 28, 2020 at 4:16 p.m.

Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly said despite some modest improvements in late July and August...

WHAT IS SNAP? | The purpose of the SNAP is to provide nutritional options to families in need of food assistance. It may be called a different name in some states — in Kansas, for example, this program is known as the Food Assistance Program.

How do you qualify for SNAP, EBT and more

By Active Times

September 4, 2020 at 8:03 a.m.

The Supplement Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP, is a federal program that helps...

In the wake of COVID-19, many employers are facing questions regarding work-from-home arrangements.

How to continue working remotely from another state

By Kathleen Furore

August 28, 2020 at 10:10 a.m.

DEAR READERS: A friend recently told me her son — who has been working from...

Recessions lead to big money mistakes – here’s how to break the trend

By Bloomberg

September 2, 2020 at 2:02 p.m.

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- After relishing one the longest bull markets in history, millions of millennials...

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020 file photo, Nova Blanche Forman Elementary School teacher Attiya Batool, teaches her 4th grade class virtually as her son, Nabeel, does his second grade classwork online wearing a face mask and headphones during the first day of school in Broward, in Davie, Fla. This year, many families are dealing with a first: building their back-to-school shopping plans around distance learning. As the COVID-19 pandemic leads students to take on instruction at home rather than in the classroom, consumers expect to spend more on back-to-school purchases in 2020 than last year. (Emily Michot/Miami Herald via AP, File)

Distance learning can fit into your back-to-school budget

By Associated Press

August 28, 2020 at 10:03 a.m.

For many students, "going back to school" this fall could be just a figure of...

A pair of mannequin hands stick out from a bag Jan. 2, 2019, outside Lord & Taylor's longtime flagship Fifth Avenue store which closed in New York after a monthslong sale. In 2020, the entire Lord & Taylor chain is going out of business.

After nearly 200 years, Lord & Taylor going out of business

By Associated Press

August 28, 2020 at 4:11 p.m.

Lord & Taylor, one of the country's oldest department store chains, is going out of...

What to do if you test positive | If you receive a positive test result for COVID-19, the most important thing to do right away is to minimize any exposure to other people, according to the Washington State Department of Health, and your family members or anyone else you've come into contact with should be tested. Your symptoms may stay very mild—or you may be one of the lucky people who never experiences symptoms—but severity of symptoms doesn't affect how contagious you are. If you have symptoms, call your doctor and ask if your symptoms are of the kind or severity that warrants a trip to the hospital or other treatment.

Rather than give away its COVID vaccine, Oxford makes a deal with drugmaker

By Jay Hancock

August 26, 2020 at 4:40 p.m.

In a business driven by profit, vaccines have a problem. They're not very profitable —...