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But take out the transportation sector — which has been throttled by the aviation giant's troubles — and orders rose 0.4% last month.

Smaller and regional banks are major lenders not only for office construction, but also building projects like hospitals, educational institutions and ports.

They're down about 26% compared to a year ago.

Wage increases have been eaten by high inflation.

The supplemental poverty rate fell to its lowest since 2009. Children living in poverty fell by almost half.

With COVID-19-related job losses, health experts expect the number of people without insurance to grow this year.

The Census Bureau is offering higher wages and pulling workers in from neighboring states.

Census numbers show lowest the mobility rate on record.

There is demand for new homes, but a lot of it is among first-time home buyers who can’t afford them.

Every 10 years, the U.S. government counts every living person in the country. The 2020 head count will be the first U.S. census conducted mostly online. “For more than 200 years, the census has been this pencil and paper activity,” said Issie Lapowsky, senior writer at WIRED. “It’s a really human intensive, really time-intensive process.” […]