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Warehouses and storage providers are hiring rapidly, but employment at travel agencies is a third below its pre-pandemic high.

Stimulus checks and federal unemployment benefits dented poverty last year, in addition to the monthly child allowance that expired.

Still-high inflation has a silver lining: Minimum wage workers in several states will see their pay rise with soaring prices.

Rent prices fell 0.1% in August, Apartments.com said. The drop is the first in 20 months, and only eight of the 40 tracked cities notched an increase last month.

Work from home gave people an out to having to dress up in pressed shirts and suits to go into the office — clothes that usually need dry cleaning.

Used-car prices sank 4% in August alone, and "an absolute vortex of deflation is coming" as pandemic-era inflation cools off, one expert said.

It would take a mom working from the start of 2021 through today to earn as much as a dad did last year alone.

The $15 minimum wage has the president's support, but Democrats still haven't been able to raise pay from $7.25 an hour.

September 5 is Labor Day for 2022. Insider looked back at how union membership rates have changes since the '80s.

Ken details the pros and cons of one of America's fastest-growing jobs: a wind turbine technician. Travel is nice, but his schedule isn't consistent.