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Real Estate

Metros with the most mortgage-burdened homeowners

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How to pass a rental credit check successfully

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The most in-demand skills and jobs for 2025

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The WNBA isn’t just having a moment, it’s a major growth opportunity for small businesses

Fans looking at the merchandise in the team store before the game between the New York Liberty and the Indiana Fever at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, Indiana.

Personal Finance

Should I ditch my credit card for BNPL?

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Business & Economy

Business & Economy

How technology is preventing cargo theft, the quiet crime costing billions

Different modes of transportation for logistics or import and export.

Business & Economy

How moving companies can satisfy arbitration requirements

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Business & Economy

Invoice processing: How it works, benefits, and best practices

Worker sealing "paid" sign on an invoice document.

Business & Economy

‘Build, baby, build’: A guide to Canada’s efforts to fast-track pipelines and mines

Pieces of the Trans Mountain Pipeline project sit in a storage lot outside of Hope, British Columbia, Canada.

Business & Economy

What collection debt looks like in America: A mid-year look

Young couple looking at each other with a serious expression while going through financial documents.

Careers

Where travel nurses earn the most and least: Pay trends by state and specialty

A travel nurse putting her bag in the trunk of her car.

The Future Workforce Index: Evolving talent trends in 2025 and beyond

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The evolution of design thinking: From products to problem-solving across industries

A young graphic designer at work in office.

ChatGPT has the answers. Great leaders have the questions

Problem-solving concept illustrated with halftone collage of two hands holding a lightbulb and a question mark.

The most in-demand skills and jobs for 2025

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Education

To tackle chronic absenteeism, this high school lets students lead

Group phot of mentors and mentees at H.D. Woodson’s Attendance Pep Squad who met with community partners to learn how to build a stronger school culture.

As movement grows, microschools aren’t so ‘micro’ anymore

Volunteer Gae Bryant, right, works on a drawing exercise with two students in the K-2 class at The Ferguson School, a microschool that meets in an Atlanta-area church.

Education

Best big college towns in America

The University of Texas at San Antonio Marching Band performing at the Battle of Flowers Parade.

Financial literacy in America: Why the knowledge gap still costs us

Balancing a checkbook with U.S. bills and calculator and bills visible on a table.

AI skeptic creates chatbot to help teachers design classes

Human hand shaking robot hand, symbolizing human-robot collaboration and technology.

Real Estate

Why new-home prices are falling in summer 2025 – and where buyers can find deals now

For sale sign in front of a house.

How credit scores are shaping the 2025 housing market

Figure of a house made of paper with credit report letters and cash around it.

Top 20 US places where homes sell fastest

Person looking at the details of a house online.

When tenants have a right to counsel in eviction cases, but there aren’t enough lawyers to help

A desk with a judge's gavel on the left, a pile of books with the spines facing away from the camera and a blue book standing upright titled "Landlord Tenant Law" in gold letters.

How to pass a rental credit check successfully

Young professional having a headache at work.

Business & Economy

How restaurants rose to the cutting edge of technology

Children selecting pieces of pie from automat.

Transportation

Gas prices increase up to 9.3%: U.S. states see wide range in price shifts in 2025

A Phillips 66 gas station lot in Beaver, Utah.

Education

Utah university removes 'equity' and 'inclusion' from mission statement because of anti-DEI law

The Louis Frederick Moench statue at Weber State University.

Education

Rural teachers enjoy a better cost of living, less stress, and more great benefits

A grade school teacher happily looks over pupils answering a math exercise on the board.

Personal Finance

Trending engagement ring styles for every budget

A set of classic eternity-style diamond wedding band and ring.

Personal Finance

Which credit bureau is used most?

Collage of credit cards, finance and city buildings for the concept of credit score.

Business & Economy

Who got to work remotely in 2024 and who didn't, according to data

Person working remotely with children’s blocks on desk and a cat in background.

Education

Computer science has gone mainstream in US education, yet young women are still underrepresented

Students working at computers in a classroom.

Careers

These 6 metros have the highest share of remote workers. Here's what they reveal about the future of remote work

Man working on his laptop at his kitchen table.

Small Business

Ready to expand? Discover ways your restaurant technology can simplify scaling

A restaurant owner manning the cash register.