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How State Income Tax Rates Compare in 2026 Key Takeaways Eight U.S. states levy no individual income tax: Alaska, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming. California has the highest top marginal income tax rate in the country (13.3%), followed by Hawaii (11%). Fifteen states, including Illinois (4.95%) and North Carolina (3.99%), levy flat individual income taxes. Where you live can make a major difference in the state income tax rate applied to your earnings, with systems ranging from no individual income tax to top marginal rates above 10%. This map compares U.S. states based on their top marginal individual income tax rate in 2026 using Tax Foundation data. Both local and federal income tax rates are excluded. Which States Have No Individual Income Tax? Eight states levy no individual income tax: Alaska, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming. New Hampshire is a relatively recent addition to the list, having repealed its tax on interest and dividends in 2025. The table below lists...

U.S. employers added 162,000 jobs in August, beating expectations. The news could give the Federal Reserve more leeway to raise interest rates later this month to curb stubborn inflation. Transcript SCOTT DETROW, HOST: The U.S. job market rebounded last month after a disappointing July. A report out today shows employers added 162,000 jobs in August, and the unemployment rate held steady at a low 4.1%. So the job market looks stable at a time when we know inflation remains high, and that could impact the Federal Reserve's calculation as it makes a decision on interest rates later this...

Gold bars lie in a safe on a table at the precious metal dealer Pro Aurum. Sven Hoppe | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesGold surged on Friday, hitting ​its highest in seven weeks, ​after an unexpected ​drop in U.S. non-farm payrolls in July dashed rate-hike sentiment and set bullion on course for its best week in seven months.Spot gold jumped 2.3% to $4,336.11 an ounce, having surged more than 3% ⁠to its highest since June 17. Bullion is set to post its largest weekly rise since January 19, with prices gaining over 7% so far this week. U.S. gold futures climbed 2.3% to $4,396.9Nonfarm ‌payrolls fell by 23,000 jobs last month after a downwardly revised 20,000 increase in June, the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics ​said. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast payrolls rising 80,000 last month."The weaker-than-expected jobs data presents a scenario where the Fed is going to be less likely to raise interest rates at its next meeting," ⁠said David Meger, director of metals trading at High Ridge Futures.Energy prices coming...

When the latest official jobs report is released on Friday, economists are expecting it to show that hiring picked up in July and that the unemployment rate held steady at 4.2%. Economists’ estimated monthly employment gains of 97,500 jobs would mark an increase from June’s lower-than-expected 57,000 jobs added. The bulk of last month’s employment growth is likely to come from one sector: healthcare and social assistance. Friday’s report will likely underscore that the job market remains stable but in a low-flow state, with non-healthcare hiring a little sluggish and the unemployment rate largely unchanged. “Low-hire, low-fire” — the well-worn moniker for the...

Women accounted for 98% of the 162,000 jobs the US added in August, an unprecedented figure that could point to broader labor market shifts. The figure reflects growth in health and caregiving, but also in local government and education, which "roared back to life," CNBC noted. Because women tend to earn less than men and are likelier to hold multiple jobs, the figure suggests hiring is clustered in low-paying, contingent roles, meaning it's not "necessarily a positive story for women overall," Indeed Hiring Lab said. It also belies a trend of American mothers exiting the workforce. A Trump administration plan would pay at-home parents, The New York Times reported, but critics said it could divert money from other working parents. ...

E2’s 2026 Clean Jobs Americareport arrives more than one year since passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) that cut incentives for clean energy manufacturing, generation and job creation. This eleventh annual report from E2, a national, nonpartisan group, analyzes the clean energy economy nearly four years since it was boosted by the Inflation Reduction Act’s clean energy investments and six years after many industries were leveled by the Covid-19 pandemic. In the past two years, Congress and the current administration have incrementally withdrawn federal support for clean energy; a move reflected in the reported job losses. The 36,949 jobs lost in 2025 reflect the first annual job loss in the U.S. clean economy since the economic crisis that followed the Covid-19 pandemic, ending four consecutive years of strong growth. Furthermore, it erases almost 40% of all new jobs created in 2024, the report says. The report finds that jobs were lost across all the largest sectors of the clean energy...

For only the third time in American history, women hold more payroll jobs than men—and that trend isn’t likely to reverse anytime soon. Yet even as women pull ahead on job counts, men continue to out-earn them at nearly every stage of their careers, starting the day they leave campus. A new study by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) found that women who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in the class of 2023 earned an average starting salary of $59,778, while men with the same degree earned $72,190. That works out to women taking home roughly 83 cents for every dollar their male classmates made—before their careers have even begun. Women last held a payroll majority only twice before—briefly during the Great Recession around 2010, and again just before the pandemic in early 2020. Both times a downturn had wiped out male-dominated jobs in construction and manufacturing. What makes this crossover different is that it arrived without a recession. Women...

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The US economy added 162,000 jobs in August, an uptick after a sluggish summer for the labor market.The unemployment rate held steady at 4.1%, still down from its most recent peak of 4.5% last November, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Despite the relative stability of the unemployment rate, the number of new jobs added to the economy has been fluctuating, going from 214,000 in March down to a 21,000 gain in July and then back up in August.August jobs reportFigures for job growth in June and July were both revised up. After revisions, job growth in June was 31,000 jobs, up from an initial 20,000, and July was revised up by 44,000 jobs, from an initially reported loss of 23,000 to a gain of 21,000.Economists had predicted gains would be at least 50,000 new jobs. Earlier in the week, the payroll firm ADP reported private companies added 38,000 jobs in August, lower than initial...

Who runs the world—or the U.S. labor market—in August? Girls. Women accounted for almost every job added to the U.S. economy in August, an extraordinary statistic within a jobs report full of surprises. The economy added 162,000 jobs last month, nearly triple most economists’ projections of around 55,000, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Of those gains, women accounted for 158,000 of them, roughly 98% of the net increase in payroll employment. Men, by comparison, gained only about 4,000 jobs. Heather Long, chief economist at Navy Federal Credit Union, cautioned against reading too much into the gender split of one month, calling it “noisy.” “I think there’s been way too much focus on the month to month—is it men gaining jobs or women?” Long told Fortune. “That moves around a lot.” Nevertheless, the lopsided month is another data point for a broad transformation in the American workforce: Earlier this year, women overtook men in total payroll employment for the third time in history. Unlike the...