British Government Takes Control of Country’s Last Major Steel Mill
The British government moved swiftly on Saturday to take control of operations at the country’s last large crude steel producing ...
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The ‘China Shock’ Offers a Lesson. It Isn’t the One Trump Has Learned.
When Congress voted to normalize trade relations with China at the beginning of this century, U.S. manufacturers braced for a ...
Autoworkers Union Chief Gives Trump’s Tariffs a Mixed Review
The head of the United Automobile Workers union voiced partial support on Thursday for the Trump administration’s tariffs, saying targeted ...
Canada Will Use Its Retaliatory Tariff Earnings to Aid Workers and Businesses
The 25 percent tariff Canada began collecting on cars and trucks imported from the United States early Wednesday is not ...
How Contracting Work Became a Race to the Bottom
Ben Whelan is not the kind of carpenter to wax poetic about the joys of framing a wall or redoing ...
Wall Street’s Decision Makers Brace for More Chaos After Markets Plunge
There was little rest on Wall Street this weekend. There was plenty of anger, anxiety, frustration, and fear.Anger at President ...
Federal Workers Walk Into Chaos Amid Return to Office
For some federal employees, returning to the office has meant an expansion of their duties to include cleaning toilets and ...
Trump’s Tariff Agenda Bets on Americans Giving Up Cheap Goods
President Trump’s sweeping tariffs are expected to raise the cost of cars, electronics, metals, lumber, pharmaceuticals and other products that ...
Layoffs and Unemployment Grow Among College Graduates
When Starbucks announced last month that it was laying off more than 1,000 corporate employees, it highlighted a disturbing trend ...
Trump’s Tariffs Could Deal a Blow to Boeing and the Aerospace Industry
Boeing is the kind of manufacturer — one that exports billions of dollars of goods — that President Trump says ...
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 ...
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 ...
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