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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?

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

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

A futuristic digital AI interface.

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?

A business woman hanging a framed diploma.

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

A classroom equipped with computers inside Spring Hill College's Library Building in Mobile, Alabama.

Education

Best colleges in big cities

Columbia university campus aerial view.

Education

20 best colleges on the East Coast

A Saybrook College building at Yale University.

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

Woman with bright red hair explores property listings through a window while standing in front of a real estate display in a vibrant urban area.

Time tracking and trust: What today’s employees really think

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'It’s never too late': How 3 founders launched successful businesses later in life

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Personal Finance

7 easy ways to start saving for Christmas

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Business & Economy

Transpacific shipping rates hold steady as tariff uncertainty keeps importers on the sidelines

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Personal Finance

How much does the average wedding cost, according to data?

Happy couple exchanging vows during their wedding ceremony.

Foreign buyers are getting discounts on US homes – here's why

House model on various of international banknotes on the table.

The top city people want to move to in every state in 2025

Custom illustration of housing markets and states where people want to move in.

What is contributing to rising college costs?

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Money

Richest women in America

Laurene Powell Jobs and Eve Jobs attend the 2023 TIME100 Gala in New York City.

Green to gold: How lawn care can add $20,000 to your home's value

Home with green lawn and "For sale" sign covered by the word "sold."