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How It Started… How It’s Going: Energy prices soar as Biden pursues green agenda

The Morning with Maria panel examines March core CPI, expected Fed rate cuts, and the overall market outlook. Energy prices have soared by more than a third since President Biden took office in 2021 as stubborn inflation continues to burden Americans. Gasoline and housing costs were the biggest contributors to the 0.4% increase in March, […]

Surge in US small businesses started as side hustles

EmployBridge’s Joanie Billy explains what the March jobs report says about the state of the US economy on Making Money. The proportion of small businesses started last year by owners who worked for someone else has nearly doubled from 2022, new data shows. A recent survey of 1,300 new business owners by payroll company Gusto […]

Suspect arrested for fire started outside Sen. Bernie Sanders Vermont office

A suspect in connection to the fire set outside of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) office in Vermont has been arrested.  Shant Soghomonian, 35, also known as Michael Soghomonian from California, was arrested in connection to “using fire to damage a building” in Sanders’s office on a high-foot traffic street in Burlington, Vermont, the Department of […]