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Real Estate

Metros with the most mortgage-burdened homeowners

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What’s the right amount of AI when hiring?

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Personal Finance

Who is checking your credit? More people than you realize

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Business & Economy

How can you identify hidden behavioral health costs, and why does it matter?

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Keep the heat on: Why your insurer cites negligence to deny frozen pipe claims

Heavy snow destroys as it accumulated on a home's drainage system.

Business & Economy

Business & Economy

How can you identify hidden behavioral health costs, and why does it matter?

A stressed young black woman with her hands over her face at work.

Business & Economy

Micro-retirements are on the rise. Here's what HR leaders need to know

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Business & Economy

Poll shows business leaders eager for AI agents in customer experience, but challenges stall adoption

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Business & Economy

Awaiting the Fed’s next move? Watch 10-year T-notes

Workers paint an eagle statue on the Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building in Washington, DC.

Business & Economy

Protecting your business from credit card fraud

A male small business owner feeling stressful while reading finance documents.

Careers

10 hidden cities where your career could take off in 2026

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Careers

The 50 highest-earning 2-year degrees

What top marketing job candidates really want

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The new corporate rat race: Who can look the busiest

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Do degrees still matter?

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Education

Education

Public schooling is best in these US cities

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Education

The top 50 party schools in America

Chuks Amaechi #41 of the Georgia Bulldogs celebrates with fans after the game against the Missouri Tigers on October 17, 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Cheating beyond ChatGPT: Agentic browsers present risks to universities

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Education

Best colleges in big cities

Columbia university campus aerial view.

Education

20 best colleges on the East Coast

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Real Estate

Cities where housing is most and least affordable for residents

Aerial view of downtown El Paso in Texas at dusk.

Where investors are buying houses in 2025

A view of waterfront homes in Boothbay Harbor in Maine.

Predicting the 25 hottest-selling real estate markets in 2026

A modern, luxury home with a wide lawn in a Northwestern residential neighborhood in the US.

States where home prices are dropping the fastest

A view of West Palm Beach's skyline in Florida.

Six-figure incomes now required to afford a home in majority of top US cities

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Money

Financial advisors in these states saw the biggest pay jumps

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Money

Where you park affects your car insurance costs

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Small Business

55% of small business owners expect profits to increase in 2024

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Business & Economy

Berkshire Hathaway's cash hoard rekindles Tesla investment chatter

Warren Buffett appears on a TV screen at the Berkshire Hathaway sharesholders meeting, while a bystander walks past.

Education

Largest college campuses in the US by acreage

Berry College at twilight near Rome, Georgia.

Business & Economy

25 least expensive states to live in

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Careers

5 of the most common professional development benefits

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Small Business

How to do a QR code campaign like Taylor Swift's

Taylor Swift fans gather outside a building where a mural featuring a large QR code was being painted to promote Swift's latest album, "The Tortured Poets Department," on April 17, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois.

Personal Finance

Be on the lookout for these common phone scam area codes

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Transportation

Where are all these trucks headed? The top freight destinations from each state.

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