All but two states have laws that make prisoners pay for their time behind bars, though not every state actually pursues people for the money.

Higher mortgage rates put a damper on the number of homes being sold.

The bill mostly helps the roughly 49 million people who sign up for Medicare’s drug coverage.

Union organizers and advocates say wage theft and other exploitation is common in the industry, particularly for women and racial minorities.

The social network service allowed millions of its users’ personal information to be fed to a firm that supported Donald Trump in 2016.