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It's unfair to label so many households "rich" and to hint they somehow got all the breaks and are taking advantage of poor people. Yet, this is exactly what President Obama is doing -- and without a trace of contrition.  

GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney is now trying to recast off-the-cuff comments he made earlier this year, where he claimed 47% of Americans get government benefits and don't pay federal income taxes.

This week I found companies that are hiring in both the diet and food industries, plus home health care and consumer electronics.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office now says six million people will have to pay the individual mandate tax at a higher estimated cost of $6.9 billion to $8 billion, once the law rolls out in its entirety in 2016.

The issue of exactly who pays federal income taxes is once again hitting center stage on the presidential campaign trail.

A study from the San Francisco Fed says uncertainty about the future 'depresses economic activity and holds down inflation.'

This week’s job opportunities come from a diverse mix of industries. From food to education to party stores, we found several different fields that are looking for workers.

Wall Street is cheering the Federal Reserve’s plans for a third round of bond buying, but will the latest round of quantitative easing help consumers and finally get the economy on a steady road to recovery?

The recession ended in June of 2009, and the U.S. is only creating on average 139,000 jobs a month this year, versus 153,000 a month last year. The trend is going in the wrong direction.

The country’s foreclosure wave could suppress voter turnout in key battleground states.

Public pension funds across the country are severely underfunded, threatening the retirement security of government workers and the wallets of taxpayers.

As homeowners across the Northeast begin to assess the damage caused by superstorm Sandy, now’s the time to get organized and start the insurance claims process.

The cleanup of Hurricane Sandy will count in GDP, but that doesn’t mean the U.S. will have become richer as a country.

Since 1980, weather events have killed 30,000 people in North America, caused $1.1 trillion of damage and imposed $510 billion of losses on insurers, according to a recent study.

Why has there been so much resistance from the Administration and members of Congress to new drilling permits and projects like the Keystone Pipeline?

Bad business decisions result in financial loss. The worst business decisions lose companies billions in revenue. These are the companies that were the biggest in America, capable of losing the most money.

Dave Says:  Many people turn to mutual funds to grow their savings, But the problem with mutual funds is they go up and down in value and shouldn't be used for short-term goals of less than five years.

As the presidential campaign winds down, some economists have been playing down the role of economic and political uncertainty in hamstringing the U.S. economic recovery.

A job at GM and four other companies may be on your horizon.

A Senate committee issued a report showing there are 83 overlapping federal welfare programs that together represent $1 trillion in annual spending.