Getty Images/iStockphoto Paying down your home mortgage balance faster than required is not a new idea. But you may be surprised to discover how powerful it can be. Paying down your home mortgage balance faster than required is not a new idea. But you may be surprised to discover howRead More →
Getty Images Workers at Chipotle and other restaurants are busy catering to customers. Service-oriented businesses such as fast-food purveyors are still growing more than than 10 years after the end of the last recession. The numbers: The service side of the U.S. economy rebounded in October after growth tapered offRead More →
Wage growth remains stubbornly low — and one trend across many U.S. companies could be contributing to the problem: Cutting middle managers. Even though the economy added 263,000 jobs in April, the recent increase in wages appears to have leveled off. “Companies continue to flatten their organization,” said Brian Kropp,Read More →
SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images American workers are becoming more productive at their jobs. It’s great news if it keeps up. Has the U.S. economy finally rediscovered its magic fountain of growth? Productivity — the most important eye-glazing word in the dictionary — rose in the first quarter at the fastest 12-monthRead More →
Your child may be expecting a raise soon. Children between the ages of 4 and 14 years old got an average of $471 a year or $9.06 per week in allowance in 2018, up 3.7% on the year before, according to a sampling of more than 30,000 kids by chore-trackingRead More →
