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Trump’s Labor Department Backtracks On Obama-Era Stance On Gig Businesses
The Department of Labor (DOL) issued an “opinion letter” Monday recognizing a gig business’s workers as contract labor, a favorable…
Read More »Young Americans Are Still Flocking To College Despite A Ton Of Open Jobs
The rate of high school graduates enrolling in higher education increased from 2017 to 2018 despite record levels of open…
Read More »Trump Effect: First Quarter GDP Blows Out Expectations, Best Q1 Since 2013
The U.S. economy grew at an amazing pace during the first quarter of 2019, according to data from the government.…
Read More »Is Tesla On Its Way To Crashing And Burning? Electric Car Company Posts Huge Losses In 2019
Tesla’s first quarterly earnings report of 2019 showed the company took a massive financial hit after losing a $7,500 electric…
Read More »Low marks for performance reviews
By Chris Woolston, Knowable Magazine Whether a business model is built on gigabytes, interest rates or the latest innovations in…
Read More »McDonald’s Partners With AARP To Hire Older Workers |
McDonald’s Corporation entered a partnership Wednesday with the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) to fill its need for morning…
Read More »CZ-USA To Build $90 Million Facility In Little Rock
CZ-USA, the U.S.-based affiliate of a Czech firearms manufacturer, announced plans Tuesday to build its first-ever domestic manufacturing facility in…
Read More »How will the economy affect your personal finances?
The American economy is one of the largest in the world by most measures – and as a result, it’s…
Read More »Minimum Wage Hikes Are Costing California Jobs, Study Says
California’s minimum wage increase has cost the state thousands of jobs worth of growth in the state’s booming restaurant industry,…
Read More »Food Stamps Now Available to Use Online
Food stamp users will be able to purchase their groceries online in a pilot partnership program between mega-supermarket companies and…
Read More »Democrats Have Convinced A Majority Of American’s That Trump Didn’t Cut Their Taxes. They’re Wrong
Not even one in ten American taxpayers got a tax increase this year, but a New York Times survey reveals…
Read More »Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Ministers Take Steps to Protect the Global Financial System
Washington – Today, U.S. Department of the Treasury Secretary, Steven T. Mnuchin, chaired a meeting of Ministers and other senior…
Read More »GE to Pay $1.5 Billion for Alleged Misrepresentations of Subprime Loans in Mortgage-Backed Securities
The Department of Justice today announced that General Electric (GE) will pay a civil penalty of $1.5 billion under the…
Read More »Trump’s Latest Executive Action Could Alleviate A Huge Problem For The World’s Most Productive Oilfield
The Permian basin, now the world’s most productive oil and gas field, is booming — so much so that there’s…
Read More »What We Learned From Uber Making Its IPO Filing Public
Uber made its initial public offering public of Thursday ahead of a public listing that experts say could set records.…
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