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After a year of record gains on Wall Street, it's time U.S. economic policies focused more on job growth and less on investor profits

Favorable real estate and consumer confidence indicators show U.S. economic recovery has legs — if Congress doesn't cut them off

Robert Reich writes that U.S. government policy favors the wealthy and punishes the rest of us.

Record high Dow is welcome news but the stock market uptick is no endorsement of Washington's dysfunctional budgetary policies

Does GOP want U.S. economy to succeed? When every uptick is seen as a downturn in disguise, it appears the answer is 'not yet'

Admit it. Most everyone around here had long since given up on Chris Tillman being a productive major league starting pitcher. He had been up and down more than the Dow Jones Industrial Average and his inability to stick at the major league level seemed to put the lie to the scouting reports that had him as one of the top pitching prospects in baseball when he was traded here in the deal that send Eric Bedard to Seattle.

Rising inequality is leading to boiling frustration, at home and abroad

With three new buildings that cost a combined $165 million and rising application numbers from the state's urban centers, officials at Salisbury University want everyone to know that their university has a new face and a more ambitious mission.

Maryland's two Republican members of the House of Representatives were among the final holdouts for the GOP plan to raise the debt ceiling — and were part of a group of lawmakers that moved the proposal to the right.