WASHINGTON (AP) — Living by the beach is becoming even more cost prohibitive. While many Americans know about the sky-high costs of housing in New York City or Seattle, affordability is increasingly the worst in areas where the wealthy vacation and a large share of local workers cater to their needs. The trend taps into [...]
Franklin County has reached new records with its recycling, according to a recent report from the Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio. The county’s recycling rate was at 49.17 percent in 2017, the highest rate since the solid waste district was formed in 1989, according to SWACO’s Community Impact Report. The rate includes industrial, commercial [...]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren calls Betsy DeVos the “worst secretary of education we’ve seen.” Sen. Amy Klobuchar says DeVos “shouldn’t be in her job.” Beto O’Rourke’s take on DeVos: “We can do better.” In the hunt for a presidential nomination, those Democrats and others are increasingly taking swings at DeVos as a way to energize supporters, [...]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — For millennials looking to buy their first home, the hunt feels like a race against the clock. In the seven years since the housing crash ended, home values in more than three-quarters of the country’s metro areas have climbed faster than incomes, according to an Associated Press analysis of real [...]
BEIJING (AP) — Stepping up a propaganda offensive against Washington, China’s state media on Friday accused the U.S. of seeking to “colonize global business” by targeting telecom equipment giant Huawei and other Chinese companies. There was no word from either side of progress about resuming talks on ending a tariff war between the world’s two [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Did you get a 7 percent raise last year? Congratulations, yours was in line with what CEOs at the biggest companies got. But for chief executives, that 7 percent was roughly $800,000. Pay for CEOs at S&P 500 companies rose to a median of $12 million last year, including salary, stock [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders wants to crack down on outside groups that do political spending, though one is allied with his presidential campaign. Elizabeth Warren has vowed no untraceable “dark money” will help her White House bid, despite being backed by an organization that doesn’t disclose some of its donors. And Pete Buttigieg accepted [...]
Americans generally do not have enough saved for retirement and Congress is considering a number of measures to address that. There are a few retirement-related bills of note making their way through Congress. One in particular, the Secure Act, gained significant traction this week. The House voted to approve it Thursday and it is widely [...]
WELLFLEET, Mass. (AP) — As Cape Cod’s tourist season gets underway, there’s uncertainty after two shark attacks — including Massachusetts’ first fatal attack since 1936 — rattled beachgoers last year and sparked a still unresolved debate about how the vacation destination should respond. Among the questions on many minds after Memorial Day holiday weekend unofficially [...]