January 21, 2022

How to spend less when everything costs more 

If you’ve recently filled a gas tank, shopped for ground beef or paid your electric bill you’ve noticed that prices have gone up. Inflation jumped […]
January 21, 2022

Student loan payments resume in May. Here are 7 ways to prepare

Janice Chang for NPR A little more than three months. That's how much time is left before about 41 million federal student loan borrowers have […]
January 20, 2022

Ice cream, HVAC and pickleball: what Minnesota towns are doing with their old Shopko spaces

A few years ago, Tiffany Jennen was looking for a large commercial space to lease in order to open a new gymnastics facility in Fergus […]
January 20, 2022

Extreme weather cost $280 billion globally in 2021

$280 billion — That’s how much in catastrophic losses extreme weather cost us globally in 2021, including 20 events that cost a billion dollars or […]
January 20, 2022

Home prices rose faster than ever in 2021. The typical home gained $50,000 in value

New homes under construction in Mebane, N.C., earlier this month. A historic shortage of homes for sale has been pushing prices sharply higher. So builders […]
January 19, 2022

Optum again a big revenue driver for UnitedHealth in 2021

UnitedHealth Group posted strong fourth-quarter earnings led by double-digit growth in its Optum division. The largest U.S. health insurer posted fourth quarter net income on […]
January 19, 2022

A push to ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks gains momentum

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Lawmakers from both parties are stepping up calls to ban members of Congress from […]
January 19, 2022

Some rural co-ops embrace renewables, keep rates flat

In a field in Ramsey north of the Twin Cities, a solar array is producing power from the sun. What's unusual about this array are the large […]
January 19, 2022

The big picture: A conversation about the future of work

Whatever you’re doing in 2022, there’s a good chance it looks different from what you were up to at the beginning of 2020. The pandemic […]
January 19, 2022

Study will examine regenerative agriculture effects

As he embarks on a massive data collection project, Ecdysis Foundation Director Jonathan Lundgren is confident farmers are very interested in learning more about regenerative […]