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Before nursing home patient Carmencita Misa became bedridden, she was a veritable "dancing queen," says her daughter, Charlotte Altieri. "Even though she would work about 60 hours a week, she would ...

The stock market isn’t just for rich people anymore. More than half of low- and middle-income Americans now invest in capital markets, according to new research by the BlackRock Foundation and ...

The Venice Dell project has been approved again and again, only to be stymied by local officials who oppose it.

Low-income Pennsylvania families and adults in their late 50s and early 60s have been dropping out of Affordable Care Act health plans at the greatest rates after a key financial incentive expired at ...