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United States

Healthy US economy failed to narrow racial gaps in 2019

FILE - In this March 26, 2020 file photo a man takes a photo of a sign advising that the Employment Development Department is closed due to coronavirus concerns, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
Money

California unemployment agency does less with more

FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2019, file photo, clothes dryers, top, are stacked on top of washing machines at a Home Depot store location, in Boston. Orders to U.S. factories for big-ticket manufactured goods increased a weak 0.4% in August following a much larger July gain. The Commerce Department reported Friday, Sept. 25, 2020 that the August advance marked the fourth consecutive increase but was far lower than the 11.7% surge seen in July. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
Money

Orders for big-ticket manufactured goods ticks up just 0.4%

President Donald Trump addresses rally at Cecil Airport in Jacksonville, Fla., on Sept. 24, 2020. | Evan Vucci, AP
Politics

New York Times: Trump paid $750 in US income taxes in 2016, 2017

The average size of a new home shrank from the 2016 peak to 2,576 square feet in 2018, a National Association of Home Builders analysis of census figures show. Most buyers prefer a detached house in the suburbs. (File photo by Stan Lim, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)
Real Estate

New-Construction Home Listings Drop 4% in August, Reversing Course from July’s Rebound

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

FILE - In this June 28, 2018, file photo, rolls of finished steel are seen at the U.S. Steel Granite City Works facility in Granite City, Ill. Companies seeking relief from President Donald Trump’s taxes on imported steel and aluminum ran into long delays and cumbersome paperwork, a federal watchdog found, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
Money

US companies seeking tariff relief faced red tape, delays

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Real Estate

America’s Housing Shortage Is Intensifying Especially in Affordable Places Like San Antonio and Baltimore

Building house. House construction. Many drawings for building and wooden house on old wooden background. | SarapulSar38/istockphoto
Real Estate

Sales of New-Construction Homes Rebound to Pre-Coronavirus Levels, Rising 10% in July

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