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NEW YORK (AP) — Americans cut back on retail spending in October, ending six straight months of gains. The decline was partly driven by falling prices for both gasoline and cars. Retail sales fell 0.1 percent last month after rising 0.9 percent in September, according to a report released earlier this week by the Commerce [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Up to 30 million of the poorest Americans could be purged from the Medicaid program, many the result of error-ridden state reviews that poverty researchers say the Biden administration is not doing enough to stop. The projections from the health consulting firm Avalere come as states undertake a re-evaluation of the 94 [...]
DES MOINES, Iowa — A South Dakota law professor typically teaches about dense topics such as torts and natural resources, but next semester, he and his students are shaking things up by turning their attention to Taylor Swift. Sean Kammer wanted his legal writing course to draw on music and art to help his students [...]
After delaying college for two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jaden Todd said he wasn’t sure that a four-year school was the right place to start. “I was extremely concerned that I forgot how to learn,” he said. Community college appealed as a stepping stone, but he also had heard stories of students who [...]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s government laid out hurricane reconstruction plans last week for the resort city of Acapulco that give as much priority to building military barracks as re-opening hotels. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he hoped owners would be able to reopen as many as 35 of the resort city’s 377 hotels [...]
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — College football tailgates are as synonymous with the game as blocking and tackling. Burgers, brats and beer go along with the cornhole and camaraderie for tens of thousands of people every Saturday, a beloved tradition seen outside stadiums big and small. For many years, the booze flowed only outside of [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — All signs point to a relatively solid holiday season for small businesses, yet owners of these businesses appear to have a collective anxiety about the months ahead. They have their customers to thank on both counts. Americans kept up their spending over the summer, demonstrated by the government's estimate that the [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — The National Retail Federation, the nation's largest retail trade group, expects holiday shoppers will spend more this year than last year, but their spending pace will slow given all of the economic uncertainty. The group last week forecast that holiday sales will rise 3 percent to 4 percent for November through [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — Abortion access is expected to play a central role in the 2024 elections. A preview comes tomorrow, when Ohio voters decide whether to enshrine reproductive rights in their state Constitution. The amendment is the only abortion question on any state's ballot this year, a spotlight that has generated attention from national groups [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — Joe Smith did not picture raising his granddaughter at age 66, but when his daughter's substance use disorder meant she couldn't care for her child, that's where Smith and his wife found themselves 19 years ago. That brought all the costs that come with a new baby in the house, such as [...]