Jobs Report Is Steady, but Impact of Federal Cutbacks and Tariffs Looms
It might be a moment of hush before chaos ensues, or it may be business as usual.U.S. employers added 151,000 ...
Tag: Labor and Jobs
Stock Market Has Worst Weekly Drop in Months as Tariffs Hang Over Wall St.
The stock market suffered its worst week in many months, after a series of dizzying policy shifts on tariffs from ...
Undocumented Workers, Fearing Deportation, Are Staying Home
The railroad tracks that slice through downtown Freehold, N.J., used to be lined by dozens of men, waiting for work. ...
How a Classic French Dish Is Squeezed by Lingering Inflation
At Le Bouillon Chartier in Paris, the recipe for a perfect beef Bourguignon involves beef, carrots, wine, butter and “coquillettes,” ...
U.S. Hiring Holds Steady – The New York Times
The stock market suffered its worst week in many months, after a series of dizzying policy shifts on tariffs from ...
Fired Federal Workers Face a Sluggish Job Market
For about a year now, the labor market has existed in a state of eerie calm: Not many people were ...
Trump’s Policies Have Shaken a Once-Solid Economic Outlook
President Trump inherited an economy that was, by most conventional measures, firing on all cylinders. Wages, consumer spending and corporate ...
Industries Brace for Trump Tariffs Taking Effect on Tuesday
When President Trump announced last week that an additional 10 percent tariff on Chinese goods would take effect on Tuesday, ...
Social Security Administration to Cut Roughly 7,000 Workers
President Trump’s escalating initiative to drastically cut the federal work force has reached the Social Security Administration, a crucial program ...
Tesla Fires a Manager Who Criticized Elon Musk on Social Media
Tesla became the latest part of Elon Musk’s business empire to make it clear that criticism of the chief executive ...
Mass Federal Firings May Imperil Pets, Cattle and Crops
Shortly after taking office for the second time, President Trump began making deep cuts to agencies and programs that play ...
Dockworkers Vote to Accept New Labor Contract
Dockworkers on the East and Gulf Coasts voted in favor of a new contract on Tuesday, ending labor turbulence at ...
Who Are the Probationary Federal Workers Being Cut Under Trump?
In news about the Trump administration’s job-slashing effort, one class of federal workers comes up repeatedly: “probationary” employees.At the Internal ...
Pushback to Latest DOGE Demand May Signal Limits for Elon Musk
A clash over Musk’s latest missiveMonday could bring a standoff between Elon Musk and huge swaths of the federal government, ...
Starbucks to Lay Off 1,100 Corporate Workers
Starbucks is laying off 1,100 corporate employees, its chief executive said in a letter to workers on Monday, marking the ...
When Germany Votes, It Will Be About the Economy
When German voters go to the polls on Sunday, the fate of companies like SKW Piesteritz will be at the ...
Elon Musk Tells Federal Workers to Detail Work in an Email or Lose Their Jobs
Elon Musk threw federal workers into further confusion and alarm on Saturday when he ordered them to summarize their accomplishments ...
Firings Squeeze National Parks: ‘You Won’t Have the Full Experience’
The impact on YellowstoneAt 2.2 million acres, Yellowstone is about the size of Rhode Island and Delaware combined. Seasonal park ...
Justice Department to Drop Discrimination Case Against Elon Musk’s SpaceX
The U.S. Justice Department said Thursday that it would dismiss a case against Elon Musk’s SpaceX, in which the rocket ...
A.I. Is Changing How Silicon Valley Builds Start-Ups
Almost every day, Grant Lee, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, hears from investors who try to persuade him to take their ...
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