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Unemployment and related payments for working-age people were given a welcome boost in last year’s budget. But they remain well below pensions, and far from adequate.
For the April 10 LNP | LancasterOnline article “$20 or less,” the newspaper sent five staffers to discount grocery stores to see what they could purchase.
Metro Denver developers added more than 5,000 apartments in the first quarter, and renters soaked almost all of them up. Rents rose a small amount, but the vacancy rate is getting to the point where rent declines are likely.
The minimum wage has just gone up. I once made quite a clown of myself talking about this topic on a podcast the last time it went up. I might be about to do so again, so strap in.