When the plant scaled back production in the 2000s and closed in 2015, around the time of white-collar job cuts, Normal felt the pinch. Suppliers decamped, and many workers left […]
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Back to news homeThe U.K. Prepared for a Jobs Crisis, but Got the Unexpected
So the government doubled its army of so-called work coaches, who help people on unemployment benefits find jobs. It hired 13,500 more coaches, a bigger force than was marshaled after […]
Google Could Be Violating Labor Laws With Pay for Temp Workers
But last year, in an company email, a Google manager said it appeared that there were 16 additional countries, including Brazil, Canada, Australia and Mexico, with some form of equal […]
Biden’s New Vaccine Push Is a Fight for the U.S. Economy
WASHINGTON — President Biden’s aggressive move to expand the number of vaccinated Americans and halt the spread of the Delta variant is not just an effort to save lives. It […]
Biden’s Infrastructure Plan: Scarcity of Skilled Workers Poses Challenge
WASHINGTON — The infrastructure bill that President Biden hopes to get through Congress is supposed to create jobs and spur projects for companies like Anchor Construction, which specializes in repairing […]
If You Never Met Your Co-Workers in Person, Did You Even Work There?
Kathryn Gregorio joined a nonprofit foundation in Arlington, Va., in April last year, shortly after the pandemic forced many people to work from home. One year and a zillion Zoom […]
Your Finances Took a Hit From the Pandemic. Here’s What You Do Now.
As for that tax return, it never hurts to organize all the tax data you can during the last few months of the calendar year. It’s a record of your […]
Where Diversity Still Disappoints
A push for boardroom diversity overlooks private companiesHeightened attention to boardroom diversity at public companies has changed the makeup of the upper ranks of corporate America. Well-financed private businesses, however, […]
Unemployment Benefits Expire for Millions Without Pushback From Biden
WASHINGTON — Expanded unemployment benefits that have kept millions of Americans afloat during the pandemic expired on Monday, setting up an abrupt cutoff of assistance to 7.5 million people as […]
China’s Xi Pressures Tycoons With ‘Common Prosperity’ Talk
Four decades ago, Deng Xiaoping declared that China would “let some people get rich first” in its race for growth. Now, Xi Jinping has put China’s tycoons on notice that […]