Byline: Torcuil Crichton t.crichton@dailyrecord.co.ukDaily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
"We did consider reopening our price controls to correct for this but, as Citizens Advice themselves have said, doing so retrospectively could have seriously undermined investment and been much more costly to consumers in the long term by increasing the cost of capital." They sa...
The Great Depression affected all aspects of society. By its height in 1933, unemployment had risen from about 3% to nearly 25% of the nation’s workforce.3Some workers who kept their jobs saw their wages fall, many others had to work lower-paying jobs that they were often overqualified ...
Thank you for being a friend. No matter where we go or who we become, never forget who helped us get there. There's never a wrong time to pick up a phone or send a message telling your friends how much you miss them or how much you love them. ...
Whether you've just been laid off or have been out of work for some time, you've got to find a way to manage until you find your next job. Here are six things you should be doing tosurvive unemployment. 50 and Forgotten: How to Find your Next Job When No One Wants to Hire You...
test for everything they view about economy, and they are paying more than they did four years ago," Zandi said. "A pound of sugar, ramen noodles — even though the price of those things haven't risen much over the last year, they are 20-25% higher than they were four years ...
The minimum wage dollar amount has risen since its introduction by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1938 but theconstant dollaramount, which accounts for the effects ofinflation, has decreased for American households since 1968. The federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour has remained at that...
In an increasingly global economy, GNI has been put forward as a potentially better metric for overall economic health than GDP. Because certain countries have most of their income withdrawn abroad by foreign corporations and individuals, their GDP figure is much higher than the figure that represen...
economic models offer a partial answer. By one estimate, just one of the three rounds of quantitative easing, carried out from late 2012 to 2014, raised the inflation rate by one percentage point while lowering the unemployment rate by four percentage points from where it would have stood witho...
How Much of Your Paycheck Should Go to Rent? The conventional rule is that no more than 30% of your paycheck should go to rent, but that rule may not work for everyone. You may want to spend less than 30% or base the percentage on your net income (take-home pay) rather than your...