The Week in Business: more job gains
How are you? (May 1-7) US regains most jobs lost in pandemic The Department of Labor reported another solid month of job growth in April… Read More »The Week in Business: more job gains
How are you? (May 1-7) US regains most jobs lost in pandemic The Department of Labor reported another solid month of job growth in April… Read More »The Week in Business: more job gains
Dmitry Rogozin is the head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos.Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin claimed that NATO countries could be quickly destroyed… Read More »Russian space agency chief claimed his country could destroy NATO countries in ‘half an hour’ during nuclear war
Before the beginning of each month, Anh-Thu Nguyen and her two roommates send rent checks to their landlord. A few days later, the checks are… Read More »Faced with rising rents, some US renters are fighting back
When Barbara Schwartz looks back on her early years as a stagehand on Broadway, she remembers its electricity: the rushed dancers slipping backstage in their… Read More »How Roe Shaped the World of Work for Women
Burnt Russian tanks lie on Vokzalna Street in Bucha, where a column of Russian military vehicles bound for Kiev was destroyed by Ukrainian forces; Bucha,… Read More »A Russian paratrooper who was in Bucha during the atrocities was identified by a love letter with a lipstick kiss he left behind
George D. Gould, a Wall Street financier who was a calm figure in the frenzied fiscal crisis of the mid-1970s in New York and an… Read More »George D. Gould, Pillar of New York Fiscal Rescue, Dies at 94
Morton Mower, an enterprising cardiologist who helped invent an implantable defibrillator that saved many lives by returning potentially fatal irregular heart rhythms to normal with… Read More »dr. Morton Mower, inventor of life-saving heart device, dies at 89
That’s before you start trying to wade through the acronyms and abbreviations; apart from the above there are GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard) and CCS… Read More »Redefining ‘sustainable fashion’ – The New York Times
Steelworkers wear fireproof clothing while servicing the blast furnace at the ArcelorMittal steel plant in Ukraine’s Kryvyi Rih, May 5, 2022. (David Guttenfelder/The New York… Read More »Russia’s grave miscalculation: Ukrainians would cooperate
Then, last month, Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor in Florida, took action that threatened to derail that movement: angry that Bob Chapek, the chief executive… Read More »Companies are stuck between their workers and politicians
Gabriel Ramos/Getty Images The number of wealthy Americans buying “golden passports” has soared over the past three years. The top programs grant citizenship to foreigners… Read More »Wealthy Americans are buying second passports as a ‘plan B’ for their families, citing the pandemic, climate change and political unrest
This week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Windsor, Ontario, my hometown, to announce that his government was giving more money to Stellantis, the automaker… Read More »Do automotive jobs in Canada depend on government aid?
In the wake of the leaking of a shocking Supreme Court draft opinion citing Roe v. Wade, Justice Clarence Thomas on Friday rebuked Americans for… Read More »Clarence Thomas Reportedly Tearing Americans ‘Addicted’ To Certain Court Outcomes
Scorching heat, raging wildfires and prolonged drought are putting California residents at greater risk of power outages, officials said Friday, as extreme weather from climate… Read More »Climate change burdens California’s energy system, officials say