Washington state’s “millionaires tax” is a dark cloud hanging over business owners who worry it may also spread to earners who are not millionaires.
Thousands of Oracle employees received termination emails on Tuesday while the company simultaneously pursues hiring thousands of foreign workers through H-1B visa programs.
The finance ministers of Spain and four other European countries are urging the European Union to impose a bloc-wide windfall tax on energy companies, concerned that surging oil and gas prices driven by the war in Iran will fuel inflation and strain households.
The New York Times is sympathizing with foreign college graduates who use the controversial H-1B program to grab white-collar jobs needed by American graduates.
Western merchantman has openly transited the Hormuz Strait, raising questions over whether the French owners paid the $2 million ‘Tehran Tax’.
Amazon is implement a new fuel surcharge affecting third-party sellers who rely on its fulfillment network. The online giant will charge sellers an additional 3.5 percent fee to account for what it calls “elevated costs in fuel and logistics.”
A 23-year-old Chicago man is facing multiple felony charges after authorities say he committed a string of armed robberies targeting individuals selling Pokemon cards through online marketplace listings.
While America enjoyed a boom in jobs last month, the entertainment industry lost still more jobs.
The Artemis II crew faced an unexpected technical hurdle when Microsoft Outlook malfunctioned aboard their spacecraft less than a day after liftoff.
The break-even rate of employment growth — the number of new workers needed on payrolls each month to hold the unemployment rate steady — has collapsed to near zero, according to converging analyses from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
As the Biden immigration-driven labor force disaster is healed by Trump’s immigration policies, breakeven employment falls to historic lows—rewriting the rules for reading jobs data.
Jobs boomed in March, exceeding expectations by nearly 300%.
One year after Liberation Day, with many tariffs only taking full effect mid-year amid heavy front-loading, the policy has delivered measurable results.
President Donald Trump imposed pharmaceutical tariffs and strengthened steel, aluminum, and copper tariffs on Thursday, the one year anniversary of his worldwide “Liberation Day” tariffs.
Many Americans have already been replaced by H-1B visa workers, and one in five fear their own replacement, according to a simple poll of 1,004 white-collar workers.
The Labor Department said Thursday that new claims for state unemployment benefits dropped by 9,000 to 202,000 in the week ended March 28, from the prior week’s revised level of 211,000.
28 conservative groups are urging the Trump administration to advance the natural gas supply to avoid future blackouts and utility price hikes.
A coalition of left and right groups skeptical of big tech is pushing for the Senate Judiciary Committee to advance legislation that would push back against large platforms that push their own products against third-party sellers.
A year ago, President Trump said he would bring egg prices down. That is a promise made and a promise kept.
A coalition of more than 200 child advocacy organizations and experts has issued an open letter calling on Google’s YouTube to completely prohibit AI-generated slop content from its children’s platform.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has taken a major step toward becoming a publicly traded company by confidentially filing for an initial public offering with securities regulators.
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) is standing out as the clear leader in the GOP primary race for Florida’s next governor, an Emerson College poll released on Thursday revealed.
Hershey is working to make changes in its peanut butter cup recipe after the grandson of the Reese’s candy inventor criticized the company.
AI chatbots are telling users they are right far more often than humans do, even when the user is clearly wrong, according to new research on AI’s sycophant tendencies from Stanford University. This is a key contributor to the AI-driven mental health crisis.
President Donald Trump announced that the United States is producing “more oil and gas than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined” during his Wednesday night address to the nation on the Iran war.
The people telling you the labor market is cracking probably failed to update their models for the single biggest structural change in the U.S. labor force in a generation.
American factories expanded at their fastest pace in nearly four years in March, shrugging off a war-driven surge in input costs that has dominated headlines but failed to dent the sector’s momentum.
Chinese state media is fuming over Sen. Bernie Moreno’s (R-OH) plans to expand the U.S. ban on Chinese vehicles.
TV series and movies both are being produced in far fewer numbers in California, leaving employees and actors without work.
President Donald Trump oversaw record levels of domestic energy production in 2025, including close to a billion barrels of offshore oil, according to the Department of the Interior.
A federal judge has effectively halted construction of President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom construction project.
Joe Grogan, the former director of Trump Domestic Policy Council, told Breitbart News that Microsoft that undermine the MAGA movement, funded left-wing causes, and cozied up with the Chinese Communist Party, all the time embedding themselves in the American government.
Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas is drawing widespread criticism after suggesting that workers should welcome being replaced by AI because most people dislike their jobs anyway.
The Trump administration has proposed a rule that would allow 401(k) retirement plans to more easily include alternative assets such as cryptocurrency, real estate, and private market assets.
AI company Anthropic has accidentally exposed the source code for its widely-used coding assistant Claude Code, marking the second significant data leak to affect the company in less than a week.
Rahm Emanuel is traveling to South Carolina after spending the past week in New Hampshire, extending a multi-state tour that has fueled speculation about a potential 2028 presidential campaign.
American consumers came roaring back in February, with retail sales beating expectations across the board and snapping a two-month streak of disappointing readings.
Software giant Oracle stunned thousands of workers across the globe Tuesday by notifying them of their termination via email sent at 6:00 a.m. The layoffs are designed to free up cash for the company’s aggressive AI expansion.
Private employers added 62,000 jobs in March, blowing past the 40,000 gain economists had forecast, according to the ADP National Employment Report released Wednesday.
A CNN poll released on Wednesday that Americans’ approval of President Donald Trump’s handling of the economy has hit a record low.
