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US Black Women See Jobless Rate Surge, Adding to Year-Long Trend Bloomberg.com Source link
The unemployment rate for Black women rose by a full percentage point in April, following a year-long deterioration in labor conditions for that category. The jobless rate for Black women aged 20 and over rose to 6.1%, the highest since 2022, from 5.1% in March. It has been steadily increasing since February of last year, […]
Container shipping lines have sharply increased the number of blank sailings on Transpacific routes as U.S.-China trade tensions intensify, with tariffs now at 145% on Chinese goods and 125% on U.S. imports. According to Sea-Intelligence, total blanked capacity for weeks 16-19 has surged to 367,800 TEU, a significant rise from 60,000 TEU just three weeks […]
For many Americans celebrating Easter, the holiday is incomplete without chocolate: chocolate bunnies and eggs, bars tucked into Easter baskets, candy hidden in plastic eggs for Easter egg hunts. But rocketing cocoa costs will mean higher prices for chocolate candy this year, and Donald Trump’s tariffs on all imports will likely keep prices high for […]
The emerging theme from this week’s tariff-sparked whiplash on Wall Street is whether the volatility in US bonds and the dollar signals waning appetite for US assets and their roles as safe-haven assets. The US Dollar Index (DX-Y.NYB), a key measure of the dollar’s strength against a basket of major currencies, fell below the 100 […]
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are diving Thursday and surrendering a chunk of their historic gains from the day before as President Donald Trump’s trade war continues to confuse and threaten the economy, even if its temperature has cooled a bit. The S&P 500 was down 3.6% in afternoon trading, slicing into Wednesday’s surge […]
Live news: US stocks surge as Trump pauses ‘reciprocal’ tariffs for 90 days  Financial Times Source link
Black Book’s ad hoc survey of 200 healthcare executives reveals real-time disruptions, cost inflation, and stalled innovation as Trump-era tariffs expand across key healthcare imports. WASHINGTON, DC / ACCESS Newswire / April 8, 2025 / A new national survey conducted by Black Book Research reveals a worsening outlook for U.S. healthcare providers, payers, and patients […]
Decades before McDonald’s, there was White Castle. Historians credit the hamburger chain with creating the modern fast-food industry as we know it. The legend goes that White Castle founder Walter “Walt” Anderson started making hamburgers in the early to mid-1910s after he grew frustrated with how long it took to cook meatballs. So one day, […]
U.S. states that recently adopted new abortion bans have had more babies die after the bans took effect, new research suggests. The new analysis looked at the rate of death among children under age 1 before and after these abortion bans took effect. After the bans kicked in, an estimated 5.6% more infants died than […]