James Walton, Director of Inventory and Warehouse for Helping Harvest, transports a box of food to a car, in Reading, Pennsylvania, May 29, 2020. Ben Hasty | Reading Eagle | Getty Images A jump in jobless claims back above 1 million could be a warning that the labor market is …
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White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow told CNBC on Wednesday that President Donald Trump wants to prevent China from collecting some form of payment in a deal to sell TikTok. “I think he probably wants to deny China some of the proceeds from the TikTok sale. It’s not something that …
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Yale University researcher Anne Wyllie told CNBC on Tuesday that the new saliva-based test for coronavirus may not always detect people who have really low levels of infection. “There’s more chance we’ll miss that very, very low viral load, so if the virus only starts to take up in an …
Read More »Amazon added 2,000 jobs to the Lord & Taylor building in NYC
Amazon said it plans to house more than 2,000 employees at the historic Lord & Taylor building in Manhattan under a nationwide expansion of its corporate offices. The Seattle-based e-tailing giant said Tuesday that it will hire workers to fill the landmark tower on Fifth Avenue in the coming years …
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Democratic presidential candidate sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) As she campaigns at the Seattle Center on February 22, 2020. Karen Ducey The coronavirus pandemic has delivered a punch of one to two to American workers – a public health emergency coupled with a brutal economic crisis. Our country has lost millions …
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