When I started researching age discrimination earlier this year, I thought I understood the problem fairly well. I had no idea. I had no idea how much the law favors corporations trying to dump older workers; and I had no idea how much casual age discrimination exists. I knew you [Keep reading]
You may have heard some buzz recently about first-time home buyers, with millennials sitting on the sidelines instead of jumping into the housing market. Well, it’s not just them. Basically, Americans in every age group under 65 are showing historic reluctance to own homes, according to an email from Ellyn [Keep reading]
There’s been a lot of talk lately about why first-time home buyers are sitting on the sidelines. Here’s some data that may help explain why: Low-cost starter homes are simply disappearing from the market, and the ones that still exist are being gobbled up by investors and turned into rentals [Keep reading]
You probably won’t be surprised to hear that there isn’t a single state in the U.S. where a worker earning minimum wage can afford the rent for a two-bedroom apartment — or, for that matter, a one-bedroom apartment. You might be surprised to learn that there isn’t a state where renters [Keep reading]
Young would-be home buyers are still sitting on the sidelines of America’s housing market, with first-time homebuyers representing a decades-low share. Student loans, high prices, low credit scores and a lack of knowledge when it comes to the financing available to them such as bridging finance have all been blamed [Keep reading]
A friend posed a question recently that’s particularly relevant to our current national conversation: When, exactly, was America great? The question is on everyone’s mind, thanks to Donald Trump’s surprise ascendancy to star in the world’s biggest reality TV show, our presidential election. His central theme, or at least the [Keep reading]
I call it “21st Century Moonlighting.” Others call it the “sharing economy,” the “gig economy,” etc. Whatever the name, I think one key to thriving (surviving?) in the digital economy is finding ways to supplement your full-time income. Etsy. Uber. Airbnb. Whatever. We all know incomes are stagnant, so the [Keep reading]
Here’s all you need to know about the fragile state of the American middle class. An online payday-type lender named Elevate Credit sees the middle class as its target market. “Decades–long macroeconomic trends and the recent financial crisis have resulted in a growing ‘New Middle Class’ with little to no [Keep reading]
Here’s all you need to know about the U.S. economy: It’s a great time to be a waiter or bartender. With there being companies such as Silven Recruitment out there, it comes as no surprise to find that the hospitality industry is one that many people want to be a [Keep reading]
Here’s a list of affordable cities that should be familiar to you by now: Cincinnati, Charlotte, Pittsburgh, Omaha. But here’s a list of U.S. cities that are rapidly becoming less affordable: Cincinnati, Charlotte, Pittsburgh, Omaha. In other words, the secret is out. The good news is, many of these [Keep reading]
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