FILE - In this Sept. 2, 2020, file photo, a shopper walks by one of several vacant retail spaces among the outlet shops in Freeport, Maine. The U.S. unemployment rate dropped to 7.9% in September, but hiring is slowing and many Americans have given up looking for work, the government said Friday, Oct. 2, in the final jobs report before the voters decide whether to give President Donald Trump another term. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
United States

Long-term jobless caught in a squeeze that imperils recovery

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United States

Commodities (Materias primas) by Isaac Cohen (Opinion)

FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2020 file photo, the Wall St. street sign is framed by American flags flying outside the New York Stock Exchange in New York. Stocks are falling early on Wall Street Thursday, Sept. 17, as the late selling from the previous day carries over. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
Money

Soaring wealth during pandemic highlights rising inequality

Karen Antunez, left, Nikita Bhagat, and Lisa Ferkinghoff are among the many women joining the construction industry. All three are working on the Collin College Technical Campus construction site in Allen. | Photo: Jason Janik
Construction

Inspiring More Women to Join the Building Trades

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell takes off his face mask to testify during a House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. (Kevin Dietsch/Pool via AP)
United States

Jerome Powell faces lawmakers’ skepticism on some Fed aid programs

Jani Tillery, 42, is an attorney at the Children’s Law Center in Washington who has been looking for homes since October. She’s made three offers since the end of November but lost to other bidders and she’s having a hard time finding homes in her price range of less than $200,000. (Andre Chung/for The Washington Post)
Real Estate

Black Homebuyers Face Disproportionate Lack of Home Inventory and Mobility During Pandemic

Amy and Cody Morgan look over their next appointment, Friday, Sept. 4, 2020, in Cypress, Texas. The couple, who lost their jobs as corporate executives during the coronavirus pandemic, decided to start a pool servicing company, Pit Stop Pools. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Money

New companies face tough task overcoming pandemic, recession

A Sotheby's "For Sale" sign is displayed outside of a townhouse in New York, U.S., on Monday, June 23, 2014. | Photographer: Craig Warga/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Real Estate

New York real estate trails other major market recoveries

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Money

US budget deficit hits record $3 trillion through 11 months

Bloomberg photo by Luke Sharrett
Money

Consumer prices up 0.4% in August as used car prices surge

FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2020 file photo, buildings line Wall Street, in New York. Stocks are opening higher on Wall Street Thursday, Sept. 10 as the market claws back some more of the ground it lost in a three-day slump that snapped a day earlier. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
Markets

US stocks turn lower again as a wild trading week continues

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