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By Rich Smith, The Motley Fool
| 3:30PM 4/03/2012
You could just as well call them "Generation Why Bother." Amid our current hard times, the risk-averse and sedentary Gen Y-ers exhibit little of the gumption that helped prior generations survive their own periods of economic trouble.
By Dari FitzGerald, The Motley Fool
| 3:16PM 3/06/2012
There are more than 400 delegates up for grabs across 10 states in the Super Tuesday GOP presidential primaries. While the votes are being tallied, we offer this outline of the business and money policy positions of frontrunners Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum:
By Travis Hoium, The Motley Fool
| 2:40PM 1/24/2012
If you think you're paying a lot at the gas pump now, just wait until summer hits. Stronger demand could lead to record gas prices as an economic recovery takes hold and turmoil in the Middle East sends the price of oil upward. How high? $5 a gallon isn't out of the realm of the possible.
| 4:45PM 8/25/2011
Hunger is not discriminatory, and it's everywhere. That's the message of a new study that shows children are struggling with hunger in every county and congressional district in America. But the Map the Meal Gap report also shows which states and regions are suffering disproportionately.
| 8:30AM 7/06/2011
It's still raining in North Dakota, and the price of pasta, couscous and other grain-based products is going to raise significantly over the next year. And yes, these things are connected, because pasta has become as American as apple pie and the square dance (North Dakota's state dance, don't you...
| 6:30PM 3/04/2011
Unemployment has been slipping, according to a new U.S. Labor Department report Friday. But what about underemployment? According to a new Gallup poll released Friday, national underemployment averaged 19% last year, and Illinois, California and Michigan had the highest rates.
| 7:00PM 2/28/2011
North Dakota topped Gallup's list of best places to find jobs last year, followed by other states rich in natural resources, such as South Dakota and Alaska. Meanwhile, Nevada, New Jersey and California were the worst states for job hunters.
| 3:30PM 1/28/2011
Local news outlets in the state of Washington are reporting that legislators there are considering launching a government-run bank to compete with the "too big to fail" banking behemoths. The idea might sound strange, but it's not without precedent: North Dakota has had a state-run bank since back...
| 6:00PM 8/09/2010
More states are hiking tax rates on the sale of retail items, gasoline and cigarettes according to a recent survey of state consumption taxes.
| 12:00PM 6/02/2010
At least one circus won't be coming to town anymore in North Dakota, after the state's attorney general filed a cease and desist order against its parent company, saying it didn't live up to a promise to share proceeds with local communities.
American United Entertainment LLC, based in Texas,...