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  • States With the Most Federal Funding Friday, 28 Sep 2012 | 11:18 AM ET
    Federal spending per capita: $30,318Total federal spending: $577.80 billionNumber of state residents: 19.1 millionThe state of Florida was the recipient of the most federal spending in the nation, both in total and on a per capita basis. It’s similar to second-place Louisiana in that one of the 10 prime awards it received went to the Department of Health and Human Services, and all the others went to the Department of Homeland Security.Other than the Harris Corporation, a telecommunications comp

    Using data from USASpending.gov,an OMB website, CNBC.com presents the 10 states that received the most federal dollars per capita in fiscal year 2011.

  • Colleges That Bring in the Highest Paycheck 2012 Thursday, 27 Sep 2012 | 9:00 AM ET
    Mid-Career median salary: $114,000

    Location, prestige, academic reputation, and tuition are major factors for students in the college-selection process, but post-graduation salary is something rarely taken into consideration. Click to learn more.

  • Where the 47 Percent Live Thursday, 20 Sep 2012 | 4:58 PM ET
    Total Returns: 10,995,576Returns With Income Tax Liability: 6,760,829Returns With No Income Tax Liability: 4,234,747Nonpayers: 38.5%According to Kasprak, Texas doesn’t rank very high in terms of the factors that contribute to high populations of nonpayers. It is, however, second in the nation in terms of recipients receiving refundable child tax credits.“This indicates a higher-than-normal percentage of low-income people choosing to have children,” he said. “So that is likely a big part of the n

    Mitt Romney said "There are 47 percent of the people who pay no income tax." Who are these people, and why are they exempt? Click to see which states have the highest number of people who pay no federal income tax.

  • Where the Wall Street Companies Are Moving Friday, 3 Aug 2012 | 11:48 AM ET
    On July 1, published an called “Financial Giants Are Moving Jobs Off Wall Street.” It detailed an emerging trend in which major Wall Street companies are taking swaths of on-site mid-level jobs and relocating them to less expensive locations in the U.S. This phenomenon is known as “near-shoring.”It’s easy to understand the rationale. The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the financial crisis of 2008 and the Dodd–Frank Act of 2010 had a cumulative effect on many of these companies’ bottom li

    Which locations have Wall Street companies chosen for their mid-level operations? Read ahead to find out.

  • Tea Party Aims to Apply Its Touch to the Senate G.O.P. Thursday, 2 Aug 2012 | 8:54 AM ET
    Republican candidate for U.S. Senate from Texas Ted Cruz speaks to the CPAC meeting, held by the American Conservative Union in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2010.

    The victory of Ted Cruz in Texas shows the Tea Party is very much alive in the drive for GOP  control of the Senate, portending a potential shake-up in the mind-set of the chamber, The New York Times reports.

  • 10 White Collar Fugitives Wanted by the FBI Tuesday, 31 Jul 2012 | 9:33 AM ET
    The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s has included some of the world’s most notorious criminals, including Osama Bin Laden, Ted Bundy, and Warren Jeffs — totaling 497 since its creation in 1950. Of these fugitives, 466 have been apprehended or located, according to the FBI. Of these, 154 arrests have been assisted by the public through methods such as the information posted on the website and disseminated “wanted” posters. With the success of the “Most Wanted” list, the bureau began putting phot

    Who are some of these white collar fugitives and what did they do to attract the FBI’s attention? Find out.

  • 10 Female Fugitives Wanted by the FBI Monday, 30 Jul 2012 | 10:21 AM ET
    The FBI’s most wanted list is exclusively male, and the vast majority of the other fugitives on its website are also men. Women fugitives do appear on the agency’s website, mostly in parental kidnapping cases, but also in murder, domestic terrorism, white collar crime and violent crime cases. Bounties for women fugitives range up to $1 million. Read on to learn what some of these women did … and see if any of them look familiar.

    Bounties for women fugitives range up to $1 million. Read on to learn what some of these women did…and see if any of them look familiar.

  • Top States for Business: Bottom State?  Wednesday, 11 Jul 2012 | 4:24 PM ET

    CNBC's Scott Cohn reports which U.S. state came in last in CNBC's annual ranking of the "Top State for Business."

  • Top States for Business: Swing States  Wednesday, 11 Jul 2012 | 1:48 PM ET

    CNBC's Scott Cohn and Eamon Javers offer insight on the state of the business climate for three key political swing states: Wisconsin, Virginia and Ohio.

  • Top State: Texas Does It Again!  Wednesday, 11 Jul 2012 | 8:17 AM ET

    CNBC's Scott Cohn explains how Texas was able to capture the title of "Top State for Business" for the third time.

  • Diamond Drops His Bonus  Tuesday, 10 Jul 2012 | 7:23 PM ET

    CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis and Eamon Javers report on the growing Libor scandal, and discuss Texas' win of the "Top State for Business" title in CNBC's annual study.

  • Texas Is America's Top State for Business Tuesday, 10 Jul 2012 | 4:30 PM ET
    Dallas, Texas

    The Lone Star State is tops again, displacing Virginia, which didn't even finish second this year. And who's last? Rhode Island.

  • Dueling Governors: Florida vs. Texas  Monday, 2 Jul 2012 | 8:30 AM ET

    Gov. Rick Perry, (R-TX), discusses jobs creation in the Lone Star State and health care coverage, with Gov. Rick Scott, (R-FL).

  • City by City: America’s Most Expensive Homes Wednesday, 27 Jun 2012 | 4:11 PM ET
    Price: $29.5 million           Bedrooms: 5Bathrooms: 11Square Footage: 10,511The neoclassical Georgian Mount Vernon overlooking White Rock Lake was built in 1930 and first occupied by the oil magnate H.L. Hunt and his family. Luxury features of this 10-acre estate include a two-story guesthouse, a pool house, a four-lane bowling center, a 16-car collector’s garage, lighted tennis courts, swimming pool (one of Dallas’ first residential pools), putting greens and a gazebo. The house has nine marb

    Ranked in order from the least expensive to the most expensive mansion, here are the priciest homes in the 10 biggest cities in the U.S.

  • Coolest Athlete Homes Tuesday, 19 Jun 2012 | 6:01 PM ET
    The value of the average home in the U.S. in April was $147,300, according to the real estate website The home of the professional athlete, however, is likely to be anything but average.The professional athlete is often a distinct type of home buyer who’s different from the average American, in part because the contract and endorsement money makes possible the purchase of colossal, multimillion-dollar homes. However, these athletes can have serious problems selling off real estate.A multimillio

    The average U.S. home value is $147,300, but a professional athlete's home is anything but average. Read ahead to see 10 of the coolest athlete homes on the market.

  • College-Age Millionaire Elects to Fund 'Brat PAC' Friday, 15 Jun 2012 | 1:16 PM ET
    Liberty For All Super-Pac

    A senior at Stephen F. Austin University is the founder of a political action committee that is shaking up House races in Texas.

  • Big Oil's Epic Expansion Deep in the Heart of Texas  Thursday, 31 May 2012 | 11:56 AM ET

    "Our new refinery was built to serve U.S. markets first," says Peter Voser, Royal Dutch Shell CEO, discussing his company's expansion of the Motiva refinery, and the outlook on oil prices, with CNBC's Sharon Epperson.

  • Making Profits Texan Style  Wednesday, 23 May 2012 | 8:57 AM ET

    Steve LeBlanc, Texas Teachers senior managing director, shares his final thoughts on balancing making profits with a sense of purpose.

  • 'Texas Teachers' Know Best About Real Estate  Wednesday, 23 May 2012 | 8:10 AM ET

    "We believe real estate can deliver a net 10% return to the pension plan," says Steve LeBlanc, Texas Teachers senior managing director, discussing the Texas-style of investing, and his decision to invest $3 billion with KKR and Apollo Global.

  • Best Cities for College Grads Tuesday, 15 May 2012 | 5:17 PM ET
    It’s a little more quiet than usual on the Internet this time of year because college students are studying for finals. That means a new crop of graduates is about to flood not just the job market, but the rental market. So where will the new grads move? Rent.com compiled this list of the best cities for college graduates based on unemployment rates, mean annual income, cost of living and rental inventory for the metropolitan areas. The unemployment data was taken from the March 2012 rankings, a

    A new crop of graduates is about to flood not just the job market, but the rental market. So where will the new grads move? Here's a list of the best cities for recent college grads.