Equal Pay Day: Cities Where the Wage Gap Is Narrowest
To mark Equal Pay Day, April 9, we identify the U.S. cities where women earn the most relative to men.
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New Study Finds Women More Likely to End Up Poor Than Men
SaveUp.com recently analyzed more than 20,000 of their users' savings and debt balances. Their conclusion: Women are more likely than men to be poor during their lifetimes.
Why College May Not Be the Best Choice for Your Education Dollar
Middle class Americans are fairly fervent in their belief that the route to career success has to run through a good college. But the numbers don't lie: Vocational studies might offer many the best chance at a solid career and a lifetime free of debt.
Ladies: Don't Plan for Your Retirement Like a Man
When it comes to retirement planning, women face a set of gender-specific financial challenges that require intensive effort to overcome. Here's a look at these obstacles, and what women can do to avoid getting tripped up by them.
'Made in China' Is Starting to Get Too Expensive
U.S. workers are far, far more productive than their Chinese counterparts -- mostly because we have a big head start on automation. And when you combine lower productivity with the rising wages that Chinese laborers now demand, you get what may be the recipe for the rebirth of American manufacturing.
The Opposite of 'Yuppie'? Naming Our Hard Times
The young, upwardly mobile professional was the defining American character in the 1980s, and caused us to coin the word "Yuppies." Today, the dominant trajectory is the reverse: Downward mobility, unemployment and poverty are the defining themes. We're in the Dumps -- so are Dumpies the new Yuppies?
Well-Educated Women Pay a High Price to Have Kids
Highly skilled women will lose about a quarter of a million dollars, or as much as a third of their lifetime earnings, by choosing to have a child, making the prospect of raising a family a far more expensive one for college grads than their less-educated counterparts, a new study shows.
America's Malady: A Bad Case of 'Baumol's Disease'
No, it's not a new plague. Rather, it's a little-known economics thesis that explains why uneven productivity gains in different sectors can have a huge impact on everything from consumer spending to government deficits. The latter is the nastiest side effect.
Young Single Women Now Earn More Than Men
Young single women are earning more than their male peers in metropolitan areas around the U.S., according to an analysis of Census Bureau data released Wednesday. Some hope that the trend could eventually eliminate the male-female pay gap.