Board of governors Chair Ron Bloom has backed DeJoy’s plans at the mail agency, including proposals to slow delivery and raise prices.
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You can't always make your work more interesting, but artificial deadlines and focused shifts can help keep the tedium from overwhelming you.
The Fed and White House predict prices will continue to climb as consumer demand surges before supply chains can catch up.
The bipartisan bill includes $550 billion in new investments in roads, bridges, broadband and more. It is widely expected to create a lot of jobs.
$15 an hour is suddenly the rule, not the exception, for U.S. workers. It’s a major shift from pre-pandemic.
Parents of children under 12 are once again struggling to juggle work and child care. There’s concern about another mass resignation of moms.
XPO Logistics pays DeJoy and family businesses at least $2.1 million annually to lease four office buildings in North Carolina.
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The teen lifeguard protesting lower pay than her male colleagues receives strong support — but also some discouraging responses.
Nearly 2,000 companies and other groups have already engaged with Washington officials about infrastructure this year, according to filings, and the intensity is expected to pick up.
Moody’s data shows there are still well over 6 million renters behind on payments as the eviction moratorium expires on July 31.
Policymakers at the Federal Reserve and in the Biden administration continue to say that the price increases reflect a fundamental mismatch of supply and demand.
U.S. economy grew at annual rate of 6.5% between April and June, marking full recovery from pandemic
The economy is officially recovered from the coronavirus pandemic. For the first time since covid took hold, economic output eclipsed its pre-pandemic high, after adjusting for inflation.
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A female teen lifeguard learns that male teens who were hired after her are being paid more to do the same job — and the pool company's after-the-fact reasoning doesn't seem to hold water. What can she do?
The measure has White House support, while Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) say all significant disagreements have been resolved around the roughly $1 trillion package.
States that scaled back unemployment aid have seen a decline in teen employment and an increase in workers over 25, early evidence has found.
Remarks from the Fed chair, a GDP report and new inflation data may help policymakers’ understanding of the economy’s health.
Some back-to-school products could be hard to find for American consumers in the coming weeks.
















