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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Just six months after passing what was billed as the largest tax cut in Missouri history, the Republican-led state House voted this week for an even bigger income tax cut that could return over $1 billion annually to individuals, corporations and retirees. The Missouri legislation is the latest in a [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Employers are increasingly posting salary ranges for job openings, even in states where it's not required by law, according to analysts with several major job search websites. Following new legislation in New York City, California, Washington, Colorado, and elsewhere, employers across the country are becoming more transparent about pay in order [...]
RENO, Nev. (AP) — State lawmakers nationwide are responding to the deadliest overdose crisis in the nation’s history by pushing harsher penalties for possessing fentanyl and other powerful lab-made opioids that are connected to about 70,000 deaths a year. Imposing longer prison sentences for possessing smaller amounts of drugs represents a shift in states that [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The warning signs were all there. Silicon Valley Bank was expanding at a breakneck pace and pursuing wildly risky investments in the bond market. The vast majority of its deposits were uninsured by the federal government, leaving its customers exposed to a crisis. None of this was a secret. Yet bank supervisors [...]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — President Joe Biden last week said his administration was focused "intensely" on lowering health-care costs. Biden used a speech in Las Vegas to make the case that there are stark differences in how Democrats are tackling skyrocketing drug prices compared to their Republican counterparts. The president sought to make the contrast [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Homeownership is likely to remain a pipe dream for many Americans this spring homebuying season. The nation's worst housing slump in nearly a decade stoked hope among prospective buyers that homes could be scooped up more easily, but while prices appear to have peaked last summer, they still ended 2022 higher [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumer price increases eased slightly from January to February, but still pointed to an elevated inflation rate that is posing a challenge for the Federal Reserve at a delicate moment for the financial system. The government said earlier this week that prices increased 0.4 percent last month, just below January's 0.5 percent [...]
PHOENIX (AP) — America's schools say kids are hungry — just as pandemic-era benefit programs have lapsed. As a result, there is growing concern about its effects on kids' ability to learn. Congress temporarily made school meals free to all American schoolkids, but since that ended last fall, the need to feed students has only [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Bank stocks were pummeled Friday as investors grew increasingly fearful that the assets of a bank heavily exposed to the technology sector might need find emergency capital or be sold in the coming days. Shares of SVB Financial Group, the parent company of Silicon Valley Bank, plummeted nearly 70 percent before [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — For people who hate the way they sign their name, companies have popped up offering signature makeovers. A corner of TikTok, Instagram and other social media is dedicated to signature design, and it's keeping practitioners busy. Priscilla Molina in Los Angeles does a minimum of 300 custom signatures a month, offering [...]