
Bill Offers Incentives To Small Businesses Hiring Former Inmates
A tight job market has companies considering former inmates as workers. Bianca Facchinei explores one Illinois effort to boost such hiring.
A tight job market has companies considering former inmates as workers. Bianca Facchinei explores one Illinois effort to boost such hiring.
The mass shooting at Walmart on the week of Thanksgiving and Black Friday could impact retail and consumer confidence.
Applications for unemployment benefits are a proxy for layoffs. The current low levels show that American workers enjoy extraordinary job security.
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Foxconn, a contract assembler that makes the global smartphone industry possible, didn't have enough workers to make the new iPhone 14.
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OPEC comprises 13 countries including some of the world’s largest oil exporters.
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As Thanksgiving approaches, inflation isn't the only reason the holiday dinner may be more expensive this year.
The development comes two weeks after Disney's quarterly financial performance fell well short of Wall Street expectations on both profit and revenue.
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The head of the Association of American Railroads said a looming strike could cause a "$2 billion a day hit to our economy."
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday are two of the biggest shopping days of the year. But does one day offer deeper discounts?
Elon Musk's Twitter tenure faced a new crisis after many employees quit instead of accepting his ultimatum of "extremely hardcore" conditions.
Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes got a sentence shorter than requested by prosecutors but tougher than her team sought.
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The workers claim they were fired after raising concerns to the company about CEO Elon Musk's public behavior on Twitter.
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The platform is continuing to lose workers just as it's gearing up for the World Cup, one of the busiest events on Twitter.
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Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the average on the key 30-year rate fell to 6.61% from 7.08% last week.
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Applications for jobless claims for the week ending Nov. 12 fell by 4,000 to 222,000 from 226,000 the previous week, the Labor Department reported.
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The Seattle company noted that the protests are happening at a small number of its 9,000 company-run U.S. locations.
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Amazon said it plans to lay off about 260 workers in California, and employees in other locations including Seattle said they were let go Tuesday.
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As the cryptocurrency collapse continues, empires with billion-dollar values are continuing to topple thanks to a lack of oversight.
Grocery prices are up 12% over last year, but you can keep your Turkey Day tab down by picking up some of these deals from Walmart.
Walmart's offer would have to be approved by 43 U.S. states by Dec. 15, and local governments could sign on by March 31, 2023.
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An investigation was sparked by a 2018 Associated Press story, which found that Google continued to track people's location even after they opted out.
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According to reporting from Reuters and the New York Times, those cuts could come as soon as this week.
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The average cost of a flight is higher this year than last, with fewer workers and fewer flights adding to the issue.
The company gutted its communications department and hasn't responded to media requests for information since Musk took over.
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Analytics firm Elliptic estimates $477 million was missing from the exchange.
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Before Musk took over the social media platform, the blue check was granted to celebrities, journalists and verified by the platform to prevent this.
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FTX is the latest in a series of disasters that have shaken the crypto sector, with the exchange experiencing the crypto equivalent of a bank run.
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The Consumer Price Index increased 0.4% for the month and 7.7% from a year ago. That’s the smallest rise since January and lower than estimates.
Musk told employees "the priority over the past 10 days" was to develop and launch Twitter's new subscription service for $7.99 a month.
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People are making fake Twitter accounts pretending to be athletes, celebrities and reporters after the verified "blue check" became available to buy.
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