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Upgrade your bathroom with these 6 easy, DIY projects

Upgrade your bathroom with these 6 easy, DIY projects

How to create a home office on a budget

What a Biden administration will mean for housing-finance reform

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Three reasons you should refinance your home right now with a renovation loan

How to throw together a smaller, no-fuss Thanksgiving dinner at the last minute

These butchers, supermarkets, meal-kits and restaurants can deliver everything you need — contact-free, if you want.

The best places to stash your cash for short, medium- and long-term goals

If you’re working toward a savings goal, you have a lot of options for where you can put away your cash.

Stress-eating through Election Day? Grab freebies from McDonald’s, Wendy’s and Krispy Kreme

How to shop smart in a new world of changing consumer habits

‘I cannot express how little I care that you hate the photos’ — Chrissy Teigen speaks out for first time since miscarriage

Apple’s iPhone 12 has 5G — what is it and is it worth the upgrade?

Mammograms and colonoscopies fell by up to 70% in the early months of COVID-19

'If patients do not get important screenings, there could be long-term negative health consequences.'

Nov. 15, 2020 at 11:19 a.m. ET by Meera Jagannathan

Joe Biden has big plans to help protect gig workers — but will he be able to enact them?

President-elect Joe Biden may have difficulty passing new laws in the Senate to reclassify gig workers as employees, but could have a powerful say over how existing laws are interpreted.

Nov. 15, 2020 at 11:12 a.m. ET by Elisabeth Buchwald

I have nearly $600,000 in student debt after getting four college degrees. Can I still buy a home?

The coronavirus pandemic has complicated the process mortgage lenders use to underwrite home loans for people with student debt.

Nov. 15, 2020 at 9:49 a.m. ET by Jacob Passy

From student-loan forgiveness to targeting for-profit colleges, the Biden administration will aim to reverse many of Betsy DeVos’s education policies

DeVos's Department of Education has faced 455 lawsuits during her tenure, according to one estimate.

Nov. 15, 2020 at 5:02 a.m. ET by Jillian Berman

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‘There’s a war on organizing, collective bargaining, unions and workers’: Biden wants to undo Trump executive orders on federal workers

Federal unions challenged three Trump administration orders in particular.

Nov. 15, 2020 at 4:36 a.m. ET by Andrew Keshner

My fiancé and I have 3 kids each. My stepson, 16, ‘forgot’ his Christmas gift last year. Should I get him nothing this year?

‘I spent the last 2 years trying very hard to be kind to him, and to always greet him and include him regardless of his attitude. But recently, I just no longer care about his approval.’

My father wants to deed his kids his home before Prop 19 takes effect. I suggested a life estate instead — he said I’m ungrateful

I paid for my wife’s M.A. and vacations. I suggested we save for a house, but she left me — and my in-laws told me to be a man

Do you have questions about inheritance, tipping, weddings, family feuds, friends or any tricky issues relating to manners and money? Send them to MarketWatch's Moneyist and please include the state where you live (no full names will be used).

She’s 63 and living by the beach in Mexico on $1,000 a month: ‘I can’t imagine living in the U.S. again’

‘To hell with it’: She ditched Canada at 56 for Belize, where a couple can get ‘everything you could imagine’ for under $50,000 a year

‘It is an act of insanity to stay in the U.S.’: Why this 63-year-old teacher ditched Massachusetts to retire in the highlands of Panama

We get $2,470 a month from Social Security and want a warm, friendly city near the ocean. Where should we retire?

I’m 38 with $315,000 saved for retirement, but have $30,000 in debt. Should I lower my 401(k) contributions to get rid of that debt?

My retirement income is just $16,600 a year, but I want to retire in a beach town ‘where the sky is blue and the water warm’ — where should I go?

AOC calls out Wells Fargo CEO for ‘limited pool of Black talent’ comments

CEO Charles Scharf has apologized for ‘my own unconscious bias.’

Ellen DeGeneres says being known as the ‘be kind’ lady is ‘tricky’ in her embattled show’s season premiere

The daytime talk show host addressed her toxic workplace controversy in the opening monologue

This graduate degree will be a job magnet as the world recovers from COVID-19

This isn’t the college experience you were expecting — but get a degree anyway

JetBlue to raise onboard capacity limit to 85% for holidays, eliminate limit in January

JetBlue Airways Corp. provided details of its plans to limit onboard capacity for the busy holiday season and its plans to open all of its seats, saying the decision was supported by "science validating the safety of the aircraft cabin." The air carrier is increasing its limit of capacity to 85%...

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