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The 40-hour workweek has been standard in the U.S. for more than eight decades. Now some members of Congress want to give hourly workers an extra day off. Sen. Bernie Sanders, the far-left independent from Vermont, this week introduced a bill that would shorten to 32 hours the amount of time many Americans can work […]

Dozens of big U.S. companies paid their top executives more money than they paid in federal taxes between 2018 and 2022, a new analysis from the progressive Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) found. The report comes as President Biden has proposed raising the corporate tax rate to 28 percent […]

Companies will have to start telling the public about how climate change could hit their bottom lines — just not with as much detail as some had hoped. The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday voted to approve new climate risk disclosure rules, a significant shift that will require many companies to include information about […]

Corporations would have to share key details about their role in driving climate change and the threat that warming poses to their operations under a contentious proposal the Securities and Exchange Commission is poised to push forward Wednesday over intense business opposition. The proposal, which has been delayed for more than a year . . […]

China firmly opposes the United States imposing sanctions on Chinese enterprises for Russia-related reasons, the Chinese commerce ministry said on Monday. Feng Li | Getty Images News | Getty Images China firmly opposes the United States imposing sanctions on Chinese enterprises for Russia-related reasons, the Chinese commerce ministry said on Monday. China will take necessary measures to firmly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises, the […]

NEW YORK — Capital One Financial said it will buy Discover Financial Services for $35 billion, in a deal that would bring together two of the nation’s credit card companies as well as potentially shake up the payments industry, which is largely dominated by Visa and Mastercard. Under the terms of the all-stock transaction, Discover […]

In this article we are going to list the top 20 biggest black owned companies in the US. Click to skip ahead and jump to the top 10 biggest black owned companies

Williams has been powering America with clean natural gas for more than a century, so we know what it takes to fuel progress. We can move toward a clean energy future while meeting rising energy demands—which is why we continue to invest in innovations that will help lower emissions nationwide and globally. The path to […]

Many major U.S. companies — including some of the country’s biggest consumer brands — say they are taking steps to eliminate child labor in their domestic supply chains amid revelations that children are working throughout American manufacturing and food production. As hundreds of thousands of migrant children have crossed the southern border without their parents […]

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. US artificial intelligence companies OpenAI, Anthropic and Cohere have engaged in secret diplomacy with Chinese AI experts, amid shared concern about how the powerful technology may spread misinformation and threaten social cohesion.  According to multiple […]


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