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Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday predicted Russia would “wage war against Nato” if the US stepped back from its support of Ukraine – and that he had seen intelligence suggesting that the Russian dictator, Vladimir Putin, was building up troops for a possible military invasion of another European country. The Ukrainian president made the claim on […]
Donald Trump was barely into his second week back in the White House when he declared that his latest presidency already heralded the “golden age of America”. Others reached for more ominous characterisations of the barrage of orders from the new administration that have rocked the US government: blitzkrieg, shock and awe, criminal. Trump came […]
The United States and Colombia have announced tit-for-tat tariffs amid a spat over Bogota’s refusal to accept the return of migrants being deported under United States President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. Trump on Sunday slapped tariffs and visa restrictions on Latin America’s third-most populous country after Colombian President Gustavo Petro turned away two US military […]
The Department of Labor is proposing to phase out a controversial Depression-era program that lets some employers pay disabled workers less than the federal minimum wage. Federal law currently allows the agency to issue certificates that let employers pay certain workers less than the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour based on the notion that […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Just how much of a setback was the COVID-19 pandemic for U.S. working women? Although women who lost or left their jobs at the height of the crisis have largely returned to the workforce, a recent finding points to the price many paid for stepping back: In 2023, the gender wage […]
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Attack ads on every TV break. Campaign money pouring in. And on a sunny Saturday, a crowd stretching out the door for a campaign rally at Tulip’s, a popular Fort Worth nightclub — this time for Democratic U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, a former NFL linebacker trying to unseat Republican Sen. […]
Wages have increased significantly over the past few years, but many U.S. workers
(Bloomberg) — US employers probably tempered their hiring while wage growth moderated in June, another favorable development for Jerome Powell and his Federal Reserve colleagues seeking more confirmation that inflation is slowing. Most Read from Bloomberg Payrolls in the world’s largest economy are projected to have increased by about 190,000, according to a Bloomberg survey […]
The pay gap between job stayers and job changers narrowed in May in the latest sign that the US labor market is cooling from a hot start to 2024. New data from ADP released Wednesday showed that the median year-over-year pay increase for job switchers fell to 7.8% in May, from a recent spike of […]
The Paychex Small Business Jobs Index rose 0.46 percentage points to 100.58 in May, the largest one-month increase since January 2022. (Graphic: Business Wire) Weekly earnings growth increases as weekly hours worked stabilize ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 04, 2024–(BUSINESS WIRE)–According to the