Category: Personal Finance

The prize for Friday’s Mega Millions jackpot has climbed to $900 million after no one won it Tuesday. The projected prize would be the second-largest payout in U.S. lottery history. A lone winner taking the cash lump sum would receive about $513 million. Mega Millions announced that Tuesday’s jackpot of $667 million would have been […]

A new report from the Labor Department on Friday showed a significant hike in wages, providing a bolt of good news to President Trump and congressional Republicans less than two months before the midterms. There have been few signs of wage growth even as unemployment has fallen and the economy has expanded. But Friday’s report […]

This Girl Scout knows her customers well. The young entrepreneur set up shop outside of Urbn Leaf, a recreational and medical marijuana dispensary in San Diego. According to local news outlet Fox 4, the girl sold more than 300 boxes in about six hours. Urbn Leaf posted this photo on Instagram, encouraging its clientele to […]

NEW YORK (WPVI) — It’s a billion dollar weekend for lottery players. $450 million will be up for grabs in Friday’s Mega Millions drawing and Saturday’s Powerball jackpot is worth another $570 million. No one has hit the Mega Millions jackpot since October 13, 2017, while Powerball has not had a jackpot winner since October […]

Employers in the Nordic country now have to prove that they pay men and women in the same jobs equally. If they fail to do so, they risk being fined. Discrimination based on gender is already illegal in many countries — but research shows the legislation is far from effective. Women are paid less than […]

Nearly $800 million is up for grabs between the Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots, meaning 2018 could be a very rewarding year for someone lucky enough to have a winning ticket for one of the nation’s two largest lottery jackpots. There was no winner in Saturday night’s Powerball drawing, which pushed the prize on Wednesday to […]

President Trump began his Cabinet meeting at the White House Wednesday morning by calling it a “celebration,” in reference to the passage of a sweeping tax overhaul bill. The Senate had passed the bill in the early hours of Wednesday morning, and the House revoted to pass it with technical fixes later Wednesday. “We have […]

North Korea may be doubling down on its efforts to make money by hacking, according to new research by cybersecurity firm Proofpoint. “From a tradecraft perspective, the Lazarus Group now looks more like a criminal enterprise than a nation-state,” Ryan Kalember, Proofpoint’s senior vice president of cybersecurity strategy, told The Hill. The Lazarus Group, an industry name for […]

House Speaker Paul Ryan makes remarks ahead of House vote on Republican tax reform bill. The House on Tuesday approved a massive tax overhaul that would usher in steep rate cuts for American companies, double the deduction millions of families claim on their annual returns and make a host of other changes as part of […]

Tax reform is taking over Washington, so much so that more than half of all registered lobbyists have disclosed working on the issue, according to an analysis from Public Citizen, a government watchdog group. There are just under 11,000 active lobbyists in the nation’s capital, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics […]

President Donald Trump has insisted, for months, that the Republican tax plan he supports won’t benefit him. “It’s not good for me. Believe me,” he said at a Sept. 27 event in Indiana to sell the plan. “My plan is for the working people, and my plan is for jobs. I don’t benefit,” he also […]