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In a seminal development for Wisconsin’s economy, manufacturing has begun…

Posted by April 24, 2024

This is part one of a five-part series.EVANSVILLE – Standing alone on the floor of the once-humming Stoughton Trailers factory, company president Bob Wahlin a

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U.S. bans noncompete agreements for nearly all jobs

Posted by April 24, 2024

Federal Trade Commission Cha

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FTC bans noncompete agreements for many Americans but legal battle…

Posted by April 23, 2024

The Federal Trade Commission narrowly voted on Tuesday to ban noncompete agreements in a move that could affect up to 30 million Americans -- one out of every f

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FTC bans noncompete agreements, making it easier for workers to…

Posted by April 23, 2024

Federal regulators on Tuesday enacted a nationwide ban on new noncompete agreements, which keep millions of Americans — from minimum-wage earners to CEOs —

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Firefighter, forester, trail builder: The first US Climate Corps jobs…

Posted by April 23, 2024

Restoring coastal ecosystems with oysters in Florida, protecting forests from wildfire in California and maintaining a cultural site (the Pearl Harbor National

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Opinion: Stop saying ‘immigrants do jobs Americans don’t want to…

Posted by April 23, 2024

The deaths of six immigrant workers in the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26 sparked the kind of collective empathy that usual

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Biden Announces $7B Solar Energy Plan, Including Thousands of American…

Posted by April 23, 2024

President Biden announced a $7 billion investment in solar energy on Monday, Earth Day. The money, which comes from the Inflation Reduction Act, will fund dozen

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A U.S. manufacturing renaissance won’t create many good jobs—just look…

Posted by April 21, 2024

Manufacturing has been front and center in recent years as the U.S. and China engage in a tech rivalry while companies look to reposition more of their supply c

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Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on U.S. microchip production, blocking of…

Posted by April 21, 2024

What does the secretary of commerce do? Until now, mainly promote U.S. businesses abroad. It had not been a high-profile job til Gina Raimondo turned the second

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Op-ed: America’s first high-speed rail line should be American-made, support…

Posted by April 19, 2024

A Buy America exemption for the Brightline West high-speed rail project connecting Las Vegas and Los Angeles would threaten U.S. jobs like those in Hornell, wri

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As it happened: Aussie share market closes lower on reports…

Posted by April 18, 2024

Reporters from Reuters have done a whip-around of members of the US Federal Reserve to gauge their views on rates, inflation, and jobs.They report policymakers

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