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Fueled by vaccinations and government aid, the U.S. economy grew at a solid 6.5% annual rate last quarter in another sign that the nation has achieved a sustained recovery from the pandemic recession.

The signs and banners are dotted along suburban commercial strips and hanging in shop windows and restaurants: “Now Hiring, $15 an hour.”

Families may want to opt out of monthly child tax credit payments, and they can do so this week.

An additional 2.2 million economic stimulus checks valued at more than $4 billion were issued to Americans as recently as Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits rose last week from the lowest point of the pandemic, even as the job market appears to be rebounding on the strength of a reopened economy. The Labor Department said Thursday that jobless claims increased last week to 419,000 from 368,000 the previous week. The […]

A Change.org petition urging Congress to send out $2,000 in monthly stimulus checks is nearing its goal of 3 million.

Real checks came with a slew of false Facebook posts claiming that even more money was on the way.

(NEXSTAR) – The parents of an estimated 60 million American children began receiving child tax credit payments from the IRS this week in a move expected to lift millions of families above the poverty baseline for the remainder of 2021. As many parents know by now, the payments differ from stimulus checks in that they […]

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – According to the Mississippi State University (MSU) Extension Service, many restaurants in the state that serve catfish have had to pay their distributors more to keep the dish on their menus in 2021 or go without. Leaders said pond inventory is not the primary issue, but they said labor shortages at […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — If you have spent time on Shelby County roadways, you’ve seen plenty of temporary drive-out tags on vehicles. Turns out, a lot of them are fake, and law enforcement says it’s becoming a real and growing problem. Fake temporary tags are being used to skirt taxes a vehicle registration fees, and for some […]

Thursday is the official disbursement date for the first child tax credit payments from the Internal Revenue Service, but parents may not want to spend the day hitting refresh on the bank balance.