Some red states approved ballot measures to raise the minimum wage and require employers to provide paid sick time to their workers.
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It's the most important day of the year for the country ... The Beigie Awards! The Beigie Awards are back to recognize the regional Federal Reserve Bank with the best Beige Book entry. This time, we shine a spotlight on one entry that speaks to a ...
For the second year in a row, the U.S. government is buying the largest quantity of apples in its history because there are not enough consumers and processors who want to buy them. Today on the show, an abundance of apples and why some apple growers ...
This year's presidential campaign has focused heavily on economic issues. We look at the last set of indicators to come out before Election Day.
Ray and Becky Queen live in rural Oklahoma with their kids (and chickens). The Queens were able to buy that home with a VA loan because of Ray's service in the Army. During COVID, the Queens - like millions of other Americans - needed help from ...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the unemployment rate remained steady at 4.1% and 12,000 jobs were added to the U.S. economy during October. It's a lower-than-expected jobs number, from a period that saw two significant hurricanes in the ...
U.S. employers added just 12,000 jobs last month -- but the number was depressed by a machinists' strike at Boeing and Hurricanes Helene and Milton.
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have both appealed to workers in this year's election. But the candidates' stances on many issues affecting workers remain far apart.
Harris and Trump look toward undecided voters in Arizona and Nevada as a pathway to the White House. And, the U.S. economy sees solid growth.
In 1880, the Chinese were the biggest group of immigrants in the western U.S. But Sinophobic sentiments crystallized into racist policies and eventually the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. The rationale was that banning Chinese laborers would boost .. ...