Jonell Marty, a fifth-grade teacher in the Minneapolis suburb of Apple Valley, received $60 more in her paycheck on February 5, her first to incorporate the Trump tax cuts. Marty, who has taught for more than three decades, makes $86,000 a year. She is putting the extra $1,440 per year […]
March Retail Sales report from the Commerce Department comes out on Friday. February’s report saw only a 0.1 percent increase in retail sales. The upside of that report was the warm weather leading to more sales while the downside was due to a delay in IRS tax refunds. March could […]