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  • 1 week ago | mprnews.org | Angela Davis |Maja Beckstrom

    Like most school districts in Minnesota, St. Paul Public Schools is facing a complicated set of challenges. Enrollment is up a bit this year, but the small increase follows years of decline. The district faces a budget shortfall, has already made deep cuts and plans to ask voters this fall to approve a tax increase to support schools.

  • 1 month ago | mprnews.org | Angela Davis |Chris Farrell |Maja Beckstrom

    Create an account or log in to save stories. Thanks for liking this story! We have added it to a list of your favorite stories. Credit card debt has been rising at one of the fastest rates in history. The amount Americans owed on credit cards hit an record high of over $1.2 trillion at the end of 2024. And people are not only spending more on plastic, they’re also paying down less, carrying high balances and shelling out more for late fees.

  • 1 month ago | mprnews.org | Angela Davis |Maja Beckstrom

    When the norms and expectations of the workplace aren’t working for you, what do you do?  If you’re Alex West Steinman, you create your own workplace.  In 2017, West Steinman left a career in advertising and communications and joined three colleagues to found The Coven. Eight years later, The Coven has two co-working sites in the Twin Cities and another five franchise locations in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

  • 1 month ago | mprnews.org | Angela Davis |Maja Beckstrom |Nikhil Kumaran

    Scams are becoming more common and more expensive. Last year, more than 2.5 million Americans reported that they had been scammed. And that number has been increasing, along with the losses.   The amount of money lost to scammers in 2024 topped more than 12 billion dollars. That’s up from about $2 billion in 2019, according to the Federal Trade Commission.

  • 1 month ago | mprnews.org | Angela Davis |Chris Farrell |Maja Beckstrom

    There’s been a lot of talk over the past few weeks about the economy and a word that keeps coming up is ... uncertainty.  President Trump’s changing tariff policies have made it difficult for businesses and consumers to plan. Stock markets here and abroad have plunged and then recovered some ground and then dropped again. Many of us have questions about what’s happening and how the uncertainty could affect prices, our jobs and savings.

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