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Here are the US metro areas with the best and worst job markets – and the Midwest is doing better than you think

Post author By Falcon
Post date October 6, 2018

Click here: Five Iowa cities make Top 20 best job markets in America.

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Trump economy continues growth. Unemployment claims lowest since 1969

Post author By Falcon
Post date October 5, 2018

Click here: The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell to a near 49-year low last week.

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Rasmussen: 50% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance

Post author By Falcon
Post date October 4, 2018

Click here: Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance.

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President Donald Trump speaks to a packed U.S. Cellular Center crowd in Cedar Rapids, Iowa June, 21, 2017

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Mental Health Crisis

Post author By Falcon
Post date October 1, 2018

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BLS: Americans Spent More on Taxes Than on Food, Clothing Combined in 2017

Post author By Falcon
Post date September 30, 2018

Click here: Americans on average spent more on taxes than on food and clothing combined in 2017, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistic’s new data on consumer expenditures, which was released this month.

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Stossel: Leaving the Left

Post author By Falcon
Post date September 27, 2018

Former democrat Dave Rubin tells John Stossel – in this short 5-minute video – why he walked away from the left.

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Consumer confidence hits 18-year high

Post author By Falcon
Post date September 26, 2018

Click here: “These historically high confidence levels should continue to support healthy consumer spending, and should be welcome news for retailers as they begin gearing up for the holiday season,” says Lynn Franco, director of economic indicators at the Conference Board.

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Average FICO credit score hits all-time high

Post author By Falcon
Post date September 26, 2018

Click here: For the first time, the average national credit score has reached 704, according to FICO, developer of one of the most commonly used scores by lenders. FICO scores range from 300 to 850.

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Who Is Karl Marx?

Post author By Falcon
Post date September 25, 2018

When writing The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx thought he was providing a road to utopia, but everywhere his ideas were tried, they resulted in catastrophe and mass murder. In this short 5-minute video, Paul Kengor, Professor of Political Science at Grove City College, illuminates the life of the mild-mannered 19th Century German whose ideas led to the rise of some of the most brutal dictators in world history.

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Equifax Breach: Freezing your credit is now free in all states under a new law

Post author By Falcon
Post date September 24, 2018

Click here: Starting last Friday, a new federal law allows people to freeze and unfreeze their credit at the three major credit bureaus without being charged. Before, it cost consumers in almost half the states $3 to $12 per bureau to freeze or unfreeze their credit reports.