Budget Battles
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Republicans Want Strings Attached to California Disaster Aid
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Biden Goes Out With a Bang in the Jobs Market
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Trump Privately Pushes Senators for ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
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Trump Considers Declaring National Emergency for Tariff Rollout
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Trump Unloads: Grievances, Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico
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Republicans Divided Over How to Pass Trump’s Agenda
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Trump Pushes Johnson to Victory as Speaker
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Trump's Coal Job Push Stumbles in Most States
By Valerie Volcovici, ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's effort to put coal miners back to work stumbled in most coal producing states last year, even as overall employment in the downtrodden sector grew...
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Senate Republicans Gain Crucial Support for Budget Vital to Tax Reform
By David Morgan, ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republicans on Monday gained crucial support for a vote on a budget resolution that is vital to President Donald Trump's hopes of signing sweeping tax reform...
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More Good News on Jobs Gives the Fed a Green Light to Start Unwinding
By Lucia Mutikani, ReutersThe number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell to near a six-month low last week, pointing to a further tightening in the labor market that could encourage the Federal Reserve to lay...
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A New Report Shows Why The 10-Year Jobs Crisis Is Effectively Over
A new report by the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution has good news: "With [yesterday's] employment report, we can report that the national jobs gap relative to November 2007 has closed (...
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Is Wage Growth Finally Coming for American Workers?
By Jeff Cox, CNBCWage growth has been the missing link throughout a period that has produced more than 18.5 million new jobs, including 209,000 in July. But Amy Glaser, who helps run Adecco Staffing, believes the...
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Here’s Why We’re Not Prepared for the Next Recession
By Mark ThomaWhen will the next recession hit the economy? Nobody knows for sure, but we can be certain that sooner or later the economy will experience another downturn. When that happens, will monetary and...
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Low-Paid Workers Are Getting a Pay Bump in 44 States
By Tim Henderson, StatelineIn 44 states, jobs paying roughly $30,000 were among those that got the largest salary bumps since 2010 — evidence that the steady but modest economic growth of the past half-decade may be reaching...
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The Serious Problem Lurking in the Jobs Report
By Jeff Cox, CNBCWall Street exhaled heavily Friday on news that job creation in both the public and private sectors accelerated and defied some of the recent speculation that the economy had reached full employment...
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Why We Hate Our Jobs -- and How We Can Learn to Love Work Again
By Jim CliftonWhile the world’s workplace is going through extraordinary change, the practice of management has been frozen in time for more than 30 years.
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The Fed Raises Interest Rates Again, but Where’s the Inflation?
By Lindsay Dunsmuir and Howard Schneider, ReutersThe Federal Reserve raised interest rates on Wednesday for the second time in three months, citing continued U.S. economic growth and job market strength, and announced it would begin cutting its...
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Kenyan MPs defy president, hike pay to 130 times minimum wage
By James Macharia, ReutersNAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan members of parliament, already among the world's best-paid lawmakers, voted on Tuesday to increase their salaries to more than 130 times the minimum wage in defiance of...
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Consumer confidence strongest in over five years in May
By ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - Consumer confidence strengthened in May to the highest level in more than five years, suggesting Americans' attitudes were resilient in the face of belt-tightening in Washington...
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Austerity-weary Spaniards crave political change
By ReutersMADRID (Reuters) - Spaniards tired of spending cuts and allegations of high-level corruption want new parties to shake up the current political scene, according to an opinion poll published on Sunday...
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Will immigration reform get killed in Republican-led House?
By Thomas Ferraro, ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The biggest overhaul of U.S. immigration laws in a generation won bipartisan approval from a powerful U.S. Senate committee last week, but there is a strong chance that...
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9 Startups Bringing “Made in USA” Back to Clothing
By Yelena Shuster, The Fiscal TimesEver since the disastrous factory collapse in Bangladesh, Americans are realizing that cheap clothes come at a steep price. Enter this noble group of entrepreneurs who are stitching up their own Made...