Economy
Economy Articles
The average American gave more than $600 to charity last year. Generosity skyrocketed in some states and dropped in others.
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Corvallis, Oregon, is the American city with the highest rate of people who have graduated from high school.
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Each of the lower 48 states is home to at least one major city where the typical household earns less than the national average.
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The state that lost the most population from 2010 to 2020 was West Virginia. It was one of only six states that lost residents in that time.
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Per capita income in the United States has more than doubled in the past 60 years. That is not so in the "RV Capital of the World" though.
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A new study shows the states that people fled in 2020 and those to which they moved.
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Utah's population has risen by 17% in the past decade, the most of any state, while New York and Illinois were among those that lost residents.
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Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, Chicago was considered the murder capital of America. Murders in almost every large U.S. city surged in 2020 as civil unrest and the spread of COVID-19 triggered a...
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Members of Congress have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and quarantined since early March, and five are self-quarantined as of today.
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Twenty-one states continue to have minimum wages the same as the national number.
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While there is no such thing as the perfect city, the United States is full of places with few, if any, strengths.
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Though bachelor’s degree attainment rates are increasing, there is still much variation in the share of college-educated adults across the country.
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Every 10 years, the decennial census is used to assign each state its number of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. The 2020 Census is completed, and state population figures have been...
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Depending on the source, some 10 million to 12 million Americans will lose unemployment benefits today. While it is impossible to determine the exact makeup of this group based on age, sex, or race,...
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St. Cloud, Minnesota, has the worst socioeconomic disparities along racial lines of any U.S. metro area.
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