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For the past few months, reports have repeatedly affirmed that the economy is slowly improving. However, as one recent study highlights, some areas are recovering much faster than others.

With high-speed Internet access becoming ubiquitous, today's telecommuters can live just about anywhere. DailyFinance has gone hunting for the cities that offer the best combination of urban charm, culture and recreation, at prices that New Yorkers and Angelenos would envy.

ATM fees have become even more of a budget buster in the last year, especially in cities like Seattle, Denver, Houston and Miami where fees ATM owners charge non customers are, on average, 30 cents or more higher than in other parts of the country, a recent Bankrate study found. Bankrate's 2010...

The NFL doesn't understand its own product. In the high-def age, NFL football games are better to watch at home -- and way cheaper to do so with ticket prices so high. Demanding that fans pack the stands hurts everyone, including the league itself.

In part one of this two-part series, Money College blogger Jennifer Larson explored how students can get student loans paid or deferred through their volunteer work. Here, she reports on loan forgiveness students earn through SponsorChange.org. When Sheena Hancock received an e-mail from...

In part one of this two-part series, Money College blogger Jennifer Larson explores how students can get student loans paid or deferred through their volunteer work. If you feel stuck in the never-ending cog of student loan debt, you are certainly not alone. A lot of people are in the same...

Two cash-strapped cities, Pittsburgh and Providence, have proposed taxing some of their poorest and most vulnerable residents -- college students -- and the local universities are furious. In his recently unveiled 2010 budget proposal, Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl called for levying a...

As the leaders of the world's largest economies gather in Pittsburgh for the G-20 Conference, they might want to look out of the windows of the David L. Lawrence Convention Center to learn how a cash-strapped city is making the best of a tough economic environment. Pittsburgh is about $720 million...

With banks and carmakers reaping enormous benefits from taxpayer-funded bailouts, you have to wonder: Who will get the next scoop of bailout cash? President Obama told the editors of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Toledo Blade in an interview that he's open to proposals that would provide...