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Photo Credit: Alamy Stock Photo Last year was a difficult time for recent college graduates. Those who graduated in the spring of 2020 found themselves job-hunting in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic when businesses across the country were forced to shut their doors. And among those businesses who didn’t have to close, many put the brakes on hiring. With the U.S. starting to round the corner of the pandemic, this year’s college graduates will face a very different job market....

As we all know, small town living in the United States has many benefits and some of the best small cities anywhere are found right here in the Northland.  While that may sound like a biased statement, at least one national study does support it. SmartAssett.com conducted a study to find the best small towns in the United States. They discovered one in two Americans (48%, to be exact) prefer to live in a town or rural area, according to a 2020 Gallup survey. After analyzing data from 291 citi...

10 Best Cities to Sell a House in 2021 10 Best Cities to Sell a House in 2021 Its a sellers market here — home values are rising and properties sell quickly. This story originally appeared on SmartAsset.com. Deciding to leave the home you own might be difficult given the precious memories you’ve made within its walls. But the process of selling it can be downright taxing, especially when the real estate market is unpredictable. Your asking price, mortgage rates and other factors will determ...

10 Cities With the Best Work-Life Balance for 2021 These cities combine low unemployment with affordable housing, walkable neighborhoods and plenty of entertainment. This story originally appeared on SmartAsset.com. For most people, working is inevitable: You need a job to afford your lifestyle. The trick, of course, is to find a balance where you can earn the money you need without spending all of your time in the workplace. Some of that depends on what the work culture is like in your city, h...

Key Findings Western cities are still the best for selling homes. For the fourth consecutive year, all of the cities in our top 10 are located in Western states. This year includes two cities in Colorado, two cities in California and six in Arizona. Home values are up. On average, our study shows that home values have risen by 28.7% in the five-year period from 2014 to 2019. The city where home values have gone up the most is Hayward, California, rising 71.1%. The bottom city for this metric is...

Share For most people, working is inevitable: You need a job to afford your lifestyle. The trick, of course, is to find a balance where you can earn the money you need without spending all of your time in the workplace. Some of that depends on what the work culture is like in your city, how much you need to earn to pay for housing and how long you have to spend getting to work. To that end, SmartAsset analyzed 100 of the biggest cities in the country to find the best cities for work-life balan...

Its no secret to us that the Northland is the home of amazing beer.  Now, a national study has ranked Duluth as one of the best cities in America for beer drinkers. SmartAssett.com conducted the study, which encompassed 384 cities across the United States, and Duluth finished tied in 24th place with Colorado Springs, Colorado.  Duluth finished ahead of Minneapolis, who came in 30th. The study considered all the cities included in the Census 1-year American Community Survey (i.e. with a popul...

Share Manufacturing has a special place in the American story, but for the past few decades, this sector has been largely on the decline, impacting many workers and affecting decisions around things like budgeting and where they call home. Since 1997, more than 91,000 manufacturing plants have closed and almost 5 million manufacturing jobs have been lost, according to a 2020 study from the Economic Policy Center. Still, there are jobs to be had and careers to be built in the world of manufactur...

Maybe leaving the podium. lets get to cnns jim schuitto with more on breaking news. we have new reporting tonight on what must be a thorn in the presidents side. the former national security adviser michael flynn failing to close a middle east trip about a russia deal. what can you tell us? >> this is a letter from the ranking members and democrats on the house oversight committee and foreign affairs committee to general flynns lawyers as well as two of his business patterns asking about a trip ...