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Real Estate

Metros with the most mortgage-burdened homeowners

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It's back-to-school time: Home maintenance for busy families

Parents prepare food as their children play around the kitchen.

Business & Economy

Why business automation won't be optional in 2026

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7 scholarships students should consider applying for before 2025 ends

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Personal Finance

The child tax credit is changing. Here’s what it means for your family.

A group of young children during nap time at TLC for Tots daycare center in Nampa, Idaho. One child is sleeping while others are playing.

Business & Economy

Business & Economy

Why business automation won't be optional in 2026

A business employee using a small time hourglass beside a laptop.

Business & Economy

Hiring globally? Key considerations for choosing where to hire

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Business & Economy

What is AI automation, and how can your business use it?

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Business & Economy

6 best practices for sending bulk emails

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Business & Economy

Why your AI-generated content sounds like everyone else's and 4 ways to fix it

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Careers

What is an AI generalist—and why does your business need one?

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Instead of cutting jobs, AI adoption is fueling startup hiring

Professionals lined up sitting for a job interview.

What Gen Z really wants at work (Hint: It’s not a ping-pong table)

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The Great Shift: How Gen Z is reshaping the future of nursing

Two young female nurses having coffee after work.

AI is disrupting the workforce from the bottom up, and faster than you might think

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Education

7 scholarships students should consider applying for before 2025 ends

A student browsing the FAFSA website on a laptop.

Vouchers are booming, but lack of rural private schools that accept them means students miss out

An aerial view of a small farm in southern Indiana during golden hour on a sunny summer day.

Mastering the college application process

A male student using a desktop computer for application tasks.

‘Back to the Dark Ages’: Education research staggered by Trump cuts

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Coalition hopes to ‘accelerate’ career training, apprenticeships

Indianapolis student Danny Bonila works as a lab technician at Plastic Recycling Inc.

Real Estate

Real Estate

Best places to raise a family in the West

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Real Estate

Best suburbs to live in America

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Real Estate

10 of the most expensive states to live in

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What’s the average house price in the USA?

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It's back-to-school time: Home maintenance for busy families

Parents prepare food as their children play around the kitchen.

Money

These are the cities where $250K goes the furthest

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Education

Where graduation rates for students with disabilities are improving

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Business & Economy

Where's my paycheck? How pay periods break down by industry.

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Real Estate

No, you can't change the locks: 8 must-know eviction laws for Florida landlords

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Business & Economy

Small businesses in these industries have massive potential for women entrepreneurs in 2024

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Education

Three teaching tips from a top pre-K educator

Berol Dewdney, a Baltimore pre-K teacher who is Maryland’s teacher of the year.

Money

How social media transformed the way companies sell us products

A young woman applying eye makeup looking at the phone in front of her.

Money

Does my credit card cover damages to my rental car? A guide to credit card car rental insurance benefits and coverage

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Business & Economy

Small banks emerge as the top source for small business financing

A Black woman at the desk is showing an application document to an African American woman sitting opposite her.

Education

Drawing on video games, educators land on unlikely idea: 'Playful assessment'

A still image from Distance Dash on Roblox that is one of a new breed of playful assessments, combining digital gaming and content knowledge.