They Charge $6 to Clean Your Shirt. They Make 13 Cents On It.
There is an extravaganza of cleanliness to be found just behind an unmarked door in a corner of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. This is the home of Kingbridge’s enormous new…
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Will Families Pay Less With Two Students in College? Now, It Depends.
For many years, one financial aid principle seemed fair enough: If you had two or more family members in college at the same time, the aid formula would let you…
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Amazon, Meta and Apple beat revenue expectation, see shares jump – Nat…
Amazon.com beat fourth-quarter revenue expectations on Thursday as new generative AI features in its cloud and ecommerce businesses spurred robust growth during the critical holiday period, sending its shares up…
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In a New Cannabis Landscape, a Navy Veteran Battles for Racial Equity
“Transforming Spaces” is a series about women driving change in sometimes unexpected places. Jam the towel under the door. Open the window. And hide the bong. For decades, college students…
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Bitcoin E.T.F.s Come With Risks. Here’s What You Should Know.
Nearly a dozen new investments funds that hold Bitcoin began trading last week, making it easier for anyone with a basic brokerage account to buy a slice of the digital…
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Canadians to receive first carbon pricing rebate of 2024. Here’s how m…
Eligible Canadians will receive their first carbon pricing rebate of 2024 from the federal government starting Monday. The rebate, officially called the Climate Action Incentive payment, will be applied to…
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World could get its 1st trillionaire within a decade, Oxfam predicts -…
The world could have its first trillionaire within a decade, anti-poverty organization Oxfam International said Monday in its annual assessment of global inequalities timed to the gathering of political and…
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Canada’s housing market hit an ‘unexpected surge’ heading in 2024. Wil…
Canadian home sales saw an “unexpected surge” in December as sellers and buyers came together to get deals done before the new year, according to the national real estate body,…
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Price hikes won’t be as steep in year ahead, some firms tell Bank of C…
A pair of surveys released from the Bank of Canada on Monday show many firms’ price plans are “slowly returning to normal” after a period of elevated inflation, thanks in…
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‘Unsettling news’: What inflation’s uptick means for the Bank of Canad…
An acceleration in the annual rate of inflation to end 2023 won’t be enough to panic the Bank of Canada heading into its first interest rate decision of the year,…
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