President Joe Biden met Wednesday with business, education and health leaders who’ve required employees to get Covid-19 vaccinations as the White House prods more Americans to get shots.
Senate Democrats are on track to pass, on a party-line vote, a budget resolution that sets up President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion economic agenda. Lawmakers Tuesday afternoon were voting on a slew of proposed amendments.
U.S. consumer prices probably jumped again in July, with little sign that households -- buoyed by pandemic savings -- are balking at paying more for goods and services.Economists expect data due out on Wednesday to show a 0.5% increase in the consumer price index. While that would be a slowdown from the previous month, it would leave the headline rate of annual inflation at 5.3% -- close to the 13-year high reached in June.
Senate Democrats are on track to pass, on a party-line vote, a budget resolution that sets up President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion economic agenda. Lawmakers Tuesday afternoon were voting on a slew of proposed amendments.
Brad Lander, the Democratic candidate for New York City comptroller, wants to pump more of the city’s $265 billion of pension assets into apartments for poor and working-class residents, invest in rooftop solar panels and lend to small enterprises owned by women and minorities.
A record share of U.S. small-business owners said they had unfilled positions in July, and more firms plan to boost wages to attract much-needed help, the National Federation of Independent Business said Thursday.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that by the end of this year, monthly price changes will be running at a level consistent with the Federal Reserve’s target, even if year-over-year numbers continue to show uncomfortably high inflation.
Square Inc., the digital-payments platform led by Twitter Inc. founder Jack Dorsey, agreed to buy Australian buy-now, pay-later company Afterpay Ltd. for $29 billion in its largest-ever acquisition.
The bipartisan infrastructure bill would end a tax break Congress crafted to help businesses struggling during the pandemic but relatively few companies have claimed.
Square Inc. said it agreed to buy Australia’s Afterpay Ltd. in an all-stock transaction for $29 billion (A$39 billion) to expand into consumer lending. The deal is the San Francisco-based company’s largest acquisition.
The pandemic shuttered Blenko Glass Company. Then a limited edition of figurines brought one of the most profitable years in decades.
'Bourbon was considered a premium product — and I’m not sure that a premium product was necessarily marketed toward African Americans.'
Data show a rise in interest in anti-racist and social justice titles following George Floyd’s death. As black-owned bookstores are scrambling to keep up with demand, they’re hopeful it continues.
The government’s Paycheck Protection Program initially ran dry, prompting outrage. The new problem: Now not enough businesses are taking advantage.
Minority business owners, especially black and Latino ones, may be especially vulnerable because they’re less likely to have a financial cushion and also tend to be in industries severely affected by the pandemic, advocates and researchers say.
There’s a growing chorus of small-business owners who are angry that WeWork is refusing refunds for a space they can no longer use.
Extreme weather means Midwest farm country, usually green, looks brown from orbit.
Farmers in America's corn and soy belts have faced up to four times as much rain as they normally get in the last two months, making it difficult to plant their crops.
Gene runs down the key takeaways from his favorite stories.
