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    <title>What is the minimum wage where you live?</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Earning near it, hiring at it, or wondering how anyone lives on it? The famous federal number is frozen and fading - the real floor is your state's, and the gap between the two has never been wider. Every state ranked.</description>
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    <title>Why is gas so expensive in California?</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Filling up in California and wondering why every state line crossing feels like a discount? Here's the state's price against the country's, every week, and the three named causes behind the gap: taxes, the blend, and geography.</description>
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    <title>What is the climate doing to food prices?</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Noticed the chocolate and the coffee outrunning the rest of your shop? The world prices behind both have broken away from the pack - and named attribution science says why. Most of the basket has done nothing of the kind.</description>
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    <title>Are we in a recession right now?</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Half the headlines say downturn, half say all-clear - and your plans deserve better than a coin flip. Here's the signal with the best real-time record, drawn over every official recession since 1960, and where it stands this week.</description>
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    <title>Why is rent so high?</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Squeezed by the rent, or bracing for the renewal letter? Here's what the median renter pays, how fast rents are climbing against the long record, and the one number - empty rentals - that decides where they go next.</description>
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    <title>When will mortgage rates come down?</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Waiting for rates to fall before you buy or refinance? Here's this week's average against every week since 1971, the two dials that move it, and what today's rate does to a monthly payment on a typical home.</description>
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    <title>Is AI taking jobs - or making them?</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Is AI coming for your job, or changing what it asks of you? Real usage data says the shift is deep but narrow so far - concentrated in desk work - and live listings show which way employers are moving. Read this if work feels unsteady.</description>
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    <title>Which skills will your kids need?</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Choosing what to study, or helping someone who is? Live listings put Python first - and the runner-up isn't technical at all. What that pair means for picking a course.</description>
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    <title>Why are groceries getting so expensive?</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>If your food bill keeps creeping up, this page names the culprits: every staple ranked by how much dearer it got in a year, with the reasons behind the big movers.</description>
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    <title>How big is the national debt, really?</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>You've heard the trillions and wondered how worried to be. The measure that means something is the debt against the whole economy - and here's where it stands against the wartime record, plus your share of it.</description>
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    <title>Why does America buy more than it sells?</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>The trade deficit is back in every speech - but is buying more than you sell ruinous, or just how America shops? Every month of it since 1992, and what a deficit does and doesn't mean for you.</description>
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    <title>Is the dollar losing value?</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Half the headlines say the dollar is sliding. Here's the measured version - its value against the currencies America trades with, week by week - and what a weaker or stronger dollar changes about your life.</description>
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    <title>Does the yield curve really predict recessions?</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>The recession signal everyone cites: does it deserve its reputation? Fifty years of the curve, every inversion marked against what followed, so you can judge its record yourself.</description>
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    <title>Is bitcoin expensive right now?</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Whether you hold it or stayed out, you've wondered if the price is too high. Twelve years of it, against the one model that has tracked it since the beginning - and what the gap says right now.</description>
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    <title>What is your first salary worth in today's money?</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Was everything really cheaper back then? Type in any year and settle it: what your first salary is worth today, and what a dollar bought the year you remember.</description>
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    <title>Why is diesel so much dearer than petrol?</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>The two pump prices used to travel together; now diesel sits well above gas. Why the gap opened, week by week - and what it quietly adds to the price of everything delivered.</description>
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    <title>Which states pay the most for electricity?</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Your electricity bill depends on your state more than your thermostat. All fifty ranked and mapped, the national average marked - see which side yours sits on, and why the gap is threefold.</description>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>You've watched the sign on the corner change again and wondered who decides. Here's what's inside a gallon's price, and what a fill-up costs now against any year you remember.</description>
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