Rental crunch, rising housing costs highlight value of secondary suites for first-time homebuyers
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Rental crunch, rising housing costs highlight value of secondary suites for first-time homebuyers
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The United States is still slowly recovering from the recession, and incomes across the nation have declined in recent years. Nationwide, median household income was $51,771 a year during the three-year period of 2010 to 2012, a decline of 5.8% compared with the previous three-year period of 2007 to 2009, when the U.S. median household income was $54,951 a year.
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Despite improving since the 1960s, the gender pay gap is still quite wide in the United States. Moreover, the gap seems to have leveled off in recent years, remaining at a substantial level. In 2012, women’s median earnings were just 78.3% those of men’s median earnings. In dollar terms, women made $10,404 less than men that year.
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OTTAWA – Statistics Canada says average weekly earnings of non-farm payroll employees were $933 in December, up 0.9 per cent from the previous month.
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EDMONTON – Edmonton could see an annual funding boost of up to $1 billion under a Liberal plan to more fairly distribute provincial taxes, Edmonton-Centre MLA Laurie Blakeman said Monday.
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Farm incomes are predicted to drop slightly this year, while remaining at historically high levels.
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CALGARY – With house prices continuing to rise in Canada, a new survey reveals nearly 26 per cent of Albertans plan to use their homes as their primary source of income after they leave the workforce.
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The retail-worker strikes that swept the nation in 2013 did not move Congress to raise the minimum wage, but a growing number of states are taking action.
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The Census department has produced a fantastic interactive website that breaks down America’s census tracts by median household income, age, education and a few other stats.
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One of the most challenging and important issues in the U.S. right now is the rise of income inequality.
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