Looking to purchase a home? These U.S. cities are the most buyer-friendly

aol.com Prospective homebuyers in search of less competition and more selection may want to consider moving to the South, according to a housing market heat index from real estate…

Wayfair to open its first large store, as physical locations make a comeback

cnbc.com Online home goods retailer Wayfair is opening its first namesake store, near Chicago, following a string of other digitally native companies that have turned to…

Census 2023 population estimates for the Chicago area: Did your city, town or village gain or lose residents?

chicagotribune.com People constantly come and go, but new estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau show that Illinois lost more than 263,000 residents, or 2.1% of its population, from 2020 to…

America's fastest-growing cities

axios.com Data: U.S. Census; Chart: Erin Davis/Axios Visuals Atlanta, Fort Worth and Raleigh are America's fastest-growing cities with more than 250,000 residents as of 2023,…

Chicago youth struggle with higher rates of unemployment post-pandemic, new report finds. ‘I need a job ASAP’

chicagotribune.com As Carmell Massey and Saul Rodriguez, both 18, get ready to graduate next month from Innovations High School, the teens said they are afraid of being out of school and…

Want To Start A Business? Now Might Be The Best Time For Startups In Decades

benzinga.com Now may be as good a time as ever for entrepreneurs looking to start businesses despite the high-interest rate environment. The proliferation of work-from-home technology,…

Biden says new tariffs will protect US industries from firms subsidised by China

scmp.com “For years the Chinese government has poured state money to Chinese companies across a whole range of industries … pushing Chinese companies produce far more than the rest…

Fewer homeowners are remodeling, but demand is still 'solid'

aol.com Fewer homeowners have been taking on remodeling projects, reports show. But don’t mistake it for a slow market. The Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity, an outlook…

Here’s how much housing prices have skyrocketed over the last 50 years

cnbc.com If homes seem more expensive than ever, it's because they are — even after adjusting for inflation. U.S. homebuyers are spending more than double to buy a home now than they…

Some older Americans splurge to keep homes accessible while others struggle to make safety upgrades

apnews.com Brenda Edwards considers the four bedroom ranch-style house where she has lived for 20 years her forever home. It’s where the 70-year-old retired nurse and her 79-year-old…

Meet the boomers who’d rather spend $100k to renovate their homes than risk the frozen housing market: ‘It would be too hard to purchase anything else’

fortune.com Brenda Edwards considers the four bedroom ranch-style house where she has lived for 20 years her forever home. It’s where the 70-year-old retired nurse and her 79-year-old…

Rockingham Road Hy-Vee in Davenport closing

kwqc.com The Hy-Vee at 3019 Rockingham Road in Davenport will permanently close at 6 p.m. June 23, a company spokeswoman confirmed Friday. “Unfortunately, this location has not met…

‘Baby Reindeer’ Climbs Streaming Charts as Word-of-Mouth Buzz Builds

thewrap.com You can tell that a show has hit a certain cultural peak when its creators have to kindly ask fans to stop thinking about who the characters may be based on in real life.…

America's population count will shrink by millions under new plan

newsweek.com Legislation passed by House Republicans would add a citizenship question to the U.S. Census starting in 2030 and could significantly impact total population counts if…

Academics use imaginary data in their research

reason.com After surviving a disastrous congressional hearing, Claudine Gay was forced to resign as the president of Harvard for repeatedly copying and pasting language used by other…

California cities see exodus of college-educated Americans

newsweek.com Cities in California are experiencing an exodus of college-educated residents, as degree holders shun the Golden State in favor of more cost-efficient regions. Research…

The Oracle of Omaha warns about AI: What Buffett said at Berkshire

finance.yahoo.com A version of this post first appeared on TKer.co OMAHA, Neb. — Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, has mixed feelings about artificial intelligence (AI). "It has…