A new law that requires mortgage brokers to get licensed is aimed at protecting you when you're buying a home.

The Obama administration plans to send $600 million to help unemployed homeowners avoid foreclosure in five states.

Back to school time can be expensive. According to the National Retail Federation, the average family spends $606.40 getting ready for the upcoming school year

Regulators have shut two banks in Florida and one in Georgia, lifting to 106 the number of U.S. banks to fail this year.

South Carolina shoppers and government hope for a boost from the sales tax holiday coming up next month.

U.S. bank failures this year have surpassed a bleak milestone of 100 as regulators shut down banks in Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, Kansas, Nevada, Minnesota and Oregon.

President Barack Obama has signed an extension of unemployment benefits for millions of long-term unemployed people, capping a hard-fought political fight with Republicans.

The plan would impose taxes for the first time on a range of products people buy online.

Augusta is rolling back property taxes. Expect to pay $4.00 to $6.00 less on your tax bill in November.

The Department of Employment and Workforce reported Tuesday that the June unemployment rate was down from a revised 11.1 percent in May.

Variety Wholesalers announced that it will open a Roses in the Edgewood Square Shopping Center.

Companies say business picks up in March when people begin cashing in their tax refund checks for a ride.

The Shaw Group Inc., identified problems with the contractor's screening of construction workers.

Governor Mark Sanford vetoed an increase on cigarette taxes for more than a decade, but this year lawmakers fought that. Now the tax will be increasing by 50 cents a pack.

This April a record was set for incoming tax money and Wednesday the decision was made to cut the millage rate for property taxes for homeowners.

Tobacco wholesalers will get more money to collect the higher cigarette taxes that take effect in South Carolina on July 1.

The group looks at cities that keep their labor and housing markets stable and have had good economic activity in the past few years.

The Treasury Department's inspector general for tax administration estimated that more than 14,100 taxpayers wrongly received at least $26.7 million in homebuyer tax credits.

This indicates that buyers left the market as federal tax credits of up to $8,000 expired at the end of April.

The national jobless rate had dropped slightly in May, to 9.7 percent.

They already have a brand new Walmart and now Columbia County leaders are looking toward the future when it comes to the area known as The Gateway.

A Housing and Urban Development report says about 170,000 families spent at least one night in a shelter in 2009.

The rate is down one-tenth of a percentage point from a revised 10.3 percent in April.

BP is not only gushing oil, but plenty of money, too. The company's stock price is dropping sharply after the Gulf rig explosion. Losses are in the billions.

With so many credit card offers coming in the mail, it can be easy to rack up more debt.