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Black Americans Are Much More Likely to Face Tax Audits, Study Finds

WASHINGTON — Black taxpayers are at least three times as likely to be audited by the Internal Revenue Service as other taxpayers, even after accounting for the differences in the […]




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The Discount Data That Some Colleges Won’t Publish

By now, many people shopping for college have gotten the message that not everyone pays the list price. But what percentage do get some kind of discount, how much is […]




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Who Discriminates in Hiring? A New Study Can Tell.

Twenty years ago, Kalisha White performed an experiment. A Marquette University graduate who is Black, she suspected that her application for a job as executive team leader at a Target […]




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Here’s how to start a venture fund if you’re not rich

For years — decades, even — there was little question about whether you could become a venture capitalist if you weren’t comfortable financially. You couldn’t. The people and institutions that […]