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At 24, Alberto Rodriguez has grandparents younger than Joe Biden, but he's more interested in the 80-year-old president's accomplishments than his age. "People as young as me, we're all focusing on our day-to-day lives and he has done things to help us through that," Rodriguez, a cook at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When viewed through a wide lens, renters across the country finally appear to be getting some relief, thanks in part to the biggest apartment construction boom in decades. Median rent rose just 0.5 percent in June, year over year, after falling in May for the first time since the pandemic hit [...]
FULTON, Mo. (AP) — At the entrance to Missouri prisons, large signs plead for help: "NOW HIRING" ... "GREAT PAY & BENEFITS." No experience is necessary. Anyone 18 and older can apply. Long hours are guaranteed. Though the assertion of "great pay" for prison guards would have seemed dubious in the past, a series of [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite more than a year of widespread warnings that a recession was near, America's economy is, if anything, accelerating. Even as the Federal Reserve has sent borrowing costs sharply higher, the economy's resilience has been on plain display: Consumers keep spending, and employers keep hiring. Inflation has reached its lowest level in [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Reserve's expected move this week to raise interest rates for the 11th time could once again send ripple effects across the economy. Mortgage rates, which have surged since the Fed began lifting rates in March 2022, could rise further. So could rates on credit cards and some business loans. [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Set aside the polls, the fundraising numbers or Donald Trump's name recognition as metrics of his early dominance of the Republican presidential contest. He has what could prove to be the most important advantage in the race: a leg up in winning the delegates needed to clinch the GOP nomination. While [...]
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — On a recent day under the July sun, three men heaved solar panels onto the roof of a roomy, two-story house near the banks of the Kentucky River, a few miles upstream from the state capitol where lawmakers have promoted coal for more than a century. The federal climate law that [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is staking his re-election bid on the political and financial muscle of the Democratic National Committee. As it prepares for a bruising 2024 contest, his campaign plans to raise and spend around $2 billion, but it will do so in coordination with the national and state Democratic parties in [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Raised on welfare by his grandmother, Joseph Sais relied so much on food stamps as a college student that he thought about quitting school when his eligibility was revoked. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Sais said, he missed an “important letter” and temporarily lost his eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition [...]
With the frenzied summer travel season in full swing and the aviation system straining to keep up, Congress is expected to soon vote on legislation that over the next five years will shape the agency responsible for safely managing the nation's airspace and regulating its airlines. Lawmakers this week will debate the Federal Aviation Administration's [...]