The government announced a budget as a national election looms. Here’s what you need to know.
Category: Labor and Jobs
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Fed Chair Powell Still Expects to Cut Rates This Year, but Not Yet
Jerome H. Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, said policymakers still expect to lower rates in 2024 — but the timing hinges on data.
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Just Try to Find Women in Horology History
In Switzerland, for example, they have long been a large proportion of the industry’s work force. But that hasn’t meant recognition.
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Labor Unions End Starbucks Board Fight
The decision to pull a slate of board nominees comes after the company agreed to meet workers at the bargaining table.
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Trump’s Tax Cut Fueled Investment but Did Not Pay for Itself, Study Finds
The most detailed research yet on corporate response to the 2017 Republican tax law shows modest gains for workers and high cost to the federal debt.
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American Office Workers Are Living Even Farther From Employers Now
A new study shows that white-collar employees who can work remotely now live roughly twice as far from their offices as they did prepandemic.
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American Office Workers Are Living Even Farther From Employers Now
A new study shows that white-collar employees who can work remotely now live roughly twice as far from their offices as they did prepandemic.
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How 33-Year-Olds, the Peak Millennials, Are Shaping the U.S. Economy
Meet the 1990 and 1991 babies, a massive microgeneration in lifelong competition for America’s economic resources, reshaping the world around them.
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After Gains at Big Three, U.A.W. Aims at Nonunion Plants
A looming union election at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga could determine the trajectory of union organizing at more than a dozen auto factories.
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Unemployment Casts a Shadow Over California’s Economy
Tech layoffs, fallout from Hollywood strikes and an uptick in rural joblessness challenge a state with one of the nation’s highest unemployment rates.
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Report Helps Answer the Question: Is a College Degree Worth the Cost?
The analysis found that former students at most colleges had an annual income higher than high school graduates a decade after enrollment.
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Nursing Home Staffing Shortages and Other Problems Still Persist
Infection control lapses, severe staffing shortages and lowering vaccination rates have continued to plague many facilities beyond the pandemic.