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Young women who have just graduated from college earn $3 an hour less than their young male counterparts. That gap has widened over the past 17 years.
Hurricane season officially begins June 1 and the US Atlantic and Gulf Coasts could see an above-average number of destructive storms through the end of the season on November 30. CoreLogic has...
Nearly 700 data breaches have been logged by the Identity Theft Resource Center in the first five months of 2017. At this pace, the total should easily surpass the record high of 1,100 set last year.
Global losses to cybercriminals will total $8 trillion in 2020 according to a new report from Juniper Research. The losses are expected to hit small and medium businesses hard.
Choosing among hundreds of rewards credit card offerings can be a daunting task. Here are some tips on how to cull the choices and help make the right choice for you.
Can you afford to live in one of America's best neighborhoods? It may not be as expensive as you think.
Smart home security systems are now available with various levels of protection and a wide range of price points. Which one is best for you?
The 2017 year-to-date number of data breaches is more than a third higher than 2016's record pace. So far this year there have been 676 incidents that have exposed more than 10 million records.
At its conference for marketers and advertisers on Tuesday, Google said that it has a way to track consumers' behavior from the time they see an ad to the time they paid for the product.
American employees apparently love their jobs more than they might let on. Nearly half took less than their paid vacation benefits last year and a quarter took less than 25% of their paid time off.
Saving money is easier in some cities than in others. Here are the five U.S. cities where it is easiest to save money and the five where it is the most difficult.
A recent study from Pew Research shows that older Americans have joined the stampede to online and mobile connectivity, but a lot depends on age and income.
Here are eight tips you can use to ferret out some possible problems with that new home you want to buy.
The Church of England's endowment fund outperformed all U.S. university endowments in 2016 -- by a mile.
The WannaCry ransomware attack was unleashed last Friday and most ransom demands gave victims seven days to pay up. Those seven days end today and not many payments have been made.