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The Labor Department released data showing how many Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week.

The Fed signals the ongoing public health crisis is still posing "considerable risks" to the economy. 

Entrepreneurs, intellectuals and presidential candidates have in recent years touted “universal basic income,” a cash stipend to everyone with no strings attached, as the answer to poverty, automation and the drudgery of work. It has never gotten off the ground in the U.S.

The National Restaurant Association sent a letter to congressional leaders Tuesday urging them against raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, saying that it would force businesses to cut jobs, decrease hours, increase menu prices, and close down altogether in some cases. 

Companies including Old Dominion Freight Line Inc., ArcBest Corp. and Saia Inc. are expanding as businesses try to make their supply chains more nimble to catch up to rapidly shifting consumer demands.

A $15 minimum wage would “destroy capitalism” by denying young people the “first rung on the ladder of economic opportunity, Foundation for Economic Education opinion editor Brad Polumbo warned on Monday.

A number of other large tech companies are embracing new work policies after nearly a year of COVID-19.

Keystone XL likely won't be last pipeline killing by the Biden administration.

Millions of out-of-work Americans who collected unemployment benefits last year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic could be in for an unpleasant surprise with tax season officially open.