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Recent tightness in the labor market has pressured employers to raise wages and offer improved working conditions and benefits to compete for talent—and, as a result, workers have been far

Photo Credit: GaudiLab / Shutterstock Amid high inflation, rising interest rates, and low consumer confidence, there is good reason to be pessimistic about the state of the U.S. economy for the rest of 2022 and 2023. But despite these ...

A location’s rent-to-price ratio is one metric that potential buyers can use to assess whether it makes more sense to continue renting or try to purchase a home in their

Photo Credit: tokar / Shutterstock With both real estate and rental prices rising quickly over the last two years, U.S. households that don’t currently own a home are facing a major affordability crunch. The residential real estate ...

The 2021–2022 NBA season is coming to an end, as 16 playoff teams have played their way down to the final two. For many sports fans, success is determined by

Photo Credit: Dragon Images / Shutterstock The U.S. economy today has no lack of opportunities for architects. An ongoing shortage of housing stock contributed to the dramatic spike in housing prices over the last two years, illustrati...

Photo Credit: Oleksii Sidorov / Shutterstock With the 2021-22 NBA season drawing to a close this month, the league’s teams and fans are taking stock of the year and looking ahead to next season. Only one franchise can hoist the Larry O...

Photo Credit: spyarm / Shutterstock With a foreign-born population of more than 44 million, the U.S. has the largest number of immigrants in the world. In fact, research from the Pew Research Center shows that the U.S. immigrant popula...

Photo Credit: Studio Romantic / Shutterstock The U.S. job market has made great strides in its recovery since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. In April 2020, the unemployment rate skyrocketed to 14.7%, the highest it’s be...

Photo Credit: Monkey Business Images / Shutterstock As the American population becomes more diverse, so does the population of school-aged children. However, teacher diversity is not keeping up, and the diversity gap between students a...