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Fernando Osorio Loya, center, a contract worker from Veracruz, Mexico, stirs soil for a seeding machine as Jamie Graham, left, and Fredy Osorio, right, also a contract worker from Veracruz, Mexico, unload trays of seeded tobacco, Tuesday, March 12, 2024, at a farm in Crofton, Ky. The latest U.S. agricultural census data shows an increase in the proportion of farms utilizing contract labor compared to those hiring labor overall. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)
US farms are increasingly reliant on contract workers who are acutely exposed to climate extremes
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The latest U.S. agricultural census data, out last month with the latest five-year update of data from 2022, shows an increase in the proportion of farms utilizing contract labor compared to those … more
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FILE - A Unilever logo is displayed outside the head office of PT Unilever Indonesia Tbk. in Tangerang, Indonesia, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. Unilever, the company that makes Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Dove soaps and Vaseline, says it's cutting 7,500 jobs and spinning off its ice cream business to reduce costs and boost profits. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana, File)
Unilever is cutting 7,500 jobs and spinning off its ice cream business
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Unilever, the company that makes Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Dove soaps and Vaseline, says it's cutting 7,500 jobs and spinning off its ice cream business to reduce costs and boost profits. … more
FILE - The abandoned Michigan Central Depot train station in Detroit is shown on Jan. 21, 2010. Bill Ford, executive chair of Ford Motor Co., and his wife Lisa Ford are raising $10 million to help ten Detroit nonprofit organizations that serve young people start endowments. Lisa Ford said the campaign comes alongside Ford's investment in the refurbishment of the long abandoned train station. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio File)
Bill and Lisa Ford to raise $10M for Detroit youth nonprofit endowments
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Bill Ford, executive chairman of Ford Motor Co., and his wife Lisa Ford are raising $10 million to help ten Detroit nonprofits serving young people start endowments. Lisa Ford said Tuesday that the … more
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FILE - Britain's Kate, Princess of Wales smiles during her visit to Sebby's Corner in north London, Friday, Nov. 24, 2023. Princess Kate apologized Monday, March 11, 2024 for “confusion” caused by her editing of a family photo released by the palace — an image of the British royal and her children that was intended to calm concern and speculation about the princess's health, but had the opposite effect. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, Pool, File )
A newspaper says video of Prince William and Kate should halt royal rumor mill. That's a tall order
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A British newspaper says Prince William and his wife Catherine have been filmed at a farm shop near their Windsor home. It's the first reported footage of Kate since she had abdominal surgery for … more
FILE — People pass the front of the New York Stock Exchange, March 22, 2023. The average Wall Street bonus fell slightly last year to $176,500 as firms took a “more cautious approach” to compensation, New York state’s comptroller reported Tuesday, March 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan, File)
The average bonus on Wall Street last year was $176,500. That's down slightly from 2022
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The average Wall Street bonus fell slightly last year to $176,500. New York state comptroller has reported Tuesday that the average bonus for employees in New York City’s securities industry was … more
FILE - Gilbert Houngbo, Director General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), addresses the media during a press conference in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022. Illegal profits from forced labor worldwide have risen to the “obscene” amount of $236 billion per year, the U.N. labor agency reported Tuesday, March 19, 2024, with sexual exploitation to blame for three-fourths of the take from a business that deprives migrants of money they can send home, swipes jobs from legal workers, and allows the criminals behind it to dodge taxe (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)
Sex trade to slavery: a UN agency says criminals reap $236B a year in profits from forced labor
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The U.N. labor agency says illegal profits from forced labor globally have risen to the “obscene” amount of $236 billion per year. The International Labor Organization says sexual exploitation is … more
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FILE - Governor of the Bank of Japan Kazuo Ueda speaks during the presidency press conference at the G7 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors, at Toki Messe in Niigata, Japan, Saturday, May 13, 2023. Japan’s central bank raised its benchmark interest rate Tuesday, March 19, 2024, for the first time in 17 years, ending a longstanding policy of negative rates meant to boost the economy. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama, Pool, File)
The Bank of Japan ends its negative interest rate policy, opting for its first hike in 17 years
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Japan's central bank has raised its benchmark interest rate for the first time in 17 years, ending a longstanding policy of negative rates meant to boost the economy. The short-term rate was raised … more
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FILE - Tesla and SpaceX's CEO Elon Musk looks on, during an in-conversation event with Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at Lancaster House in London, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. Former CNN reporter Don Lemon mixed it up with Musk in an interview Lemon posted on Musk's X social network Monday, March 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool, File)
4 things to know from Elon Musk's interview with Don Lemon
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Former CNN reporter Don Lemon mixed it up with Tesla CEO Elon Musk in an interview Lemon posted on Musk's X social network Monday. The interview was supposed to kick off Lemon's new talk show on X, … more
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FILE - The Spotify app is displayed on an iPad in Baltimore, March 20, 2018. Since late last century and the early days of the web, providers of digital media like Netflix and Spotify have had a free pass when it comes to international taxes on films, video games and music that are shipped across borders through the internet. But now, a global consensus on the issue may be starting to crack. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
Spotify paid $9 billion in royalties in 2023. Here's what fueled the growth
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Every year since 2021, Spotify has published its “Loud & Clear” report, an attempt to be more transparent about its payments. On Tuesday, the streaming giant published its most recent report, … more
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FILE - Pages from the United Healthcare website are displayed on a computer screen, Feb. 29, 2024, in New York. UnitedHealth Group said it is testing software for submitting medical claims as it recovers from a cyberattack that disrupted billing systems across the country. The health care giant hasn’t set a time frame for when it expects to complete the recovery from the attack last month on its Change Healthcare business, but a spokesman said Monday, March 18, that medical claims software is the last major system the company must restore. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)
UnitedHealth says it has made progress on recovering from a massive cyberattack
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UnitedHealth Group is testing software for submitting medical claims as it continues to recover from a cyberattack that disrupted care billing systems. The health care giant hasn’t set a time frame … more
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FILE - Large posters of mostly Sports Illustrated magazine covers are displayed at the "I Am The Greatest, Muhammad Ali" exhibition at the O2 arena, which hosts high profile boxing fights in London, June 4, 2016. Sports Illustrated will continue operations after the company that owns the brand reached an agreement with a new publisher for its print and digital products, Monday, March 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)
Sports Illustrated will continue operations after agreement reached with new publisher
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Sports Illustrated will continue operations after the company that owns the brand agreed with a new publisher for its print and digital products. Minute Media took over on Monday after reaching a … more
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FILE - Marijuana plants are seen at a growing facility in Washington County, N.Y., May 12, 2023. New York will evaluate its troubled recreational marijuana licensing program after lawsuits and bureaucratic stumbles severely hampered the legal market and allowed black-market sellers to flourish, Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered Monday, March 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)
New York to probe sputtering legal marijuana program as storefronts lag, black market booms
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New York will evaluate its troubled recreational marijuana licensing program as lawsuits and bureaucratic stumbles have severely hampered the legal market and black-market sellers have flourished. … more
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Hina Kishi shows off the Shohei Ohtani design on her smart phone as she shops on Monday Feb 26, 2024, at a sporting goods store, "SELECTION," in Shinjuku district in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Stephen Wade)
$510 Dodgers jerseys and $150 caps. Behold the price of being an Ohtani fan in Japan
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The Dodgers are paying $700 million for Shohei Ohtani. That means his loyal fans in Japan will be paying big time for his merchandise. A store called Selection in Tokyo's Shijuku area sells gear for … more
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FILE - Environmental Protection Agency administrator Michael Regan speaks, Feb. 16, 2024, in East Palestine, Ohio. The EPA announced Monday, March 18, a comprehensive ban on asbestos, a carcinogen that is still used in some chlorine bleach, brake pads and other products and kills thousands of Americans every year. Regan called the final rule a major step to protect public health. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
EPA bans asbestos, a deadly carcinogen still in use decades after a partial ban was enacted
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The Environmental Protection Agency has announced a comprehensive ban on asbestos, a deadly carcinogen still used in some chlorine bleach, brake pads and other products. The final rule marks a major … more
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A "We stand with the UAW" sign is placed outside of the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Dec. 18, 2023. Volkswagen’s factory in Chattanooga is likely to be the first test of the United Auto Workers’ effort to organize nonunion automobile plants across the nation. The union said workers at the factory filed paperwork Monday, March 18, 2024 with the National Labor Relations Board seeking a union representation election. (Olivia Ross/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP, file)
Workers at Tennessee Volkswagen factory ask for vote on representation by United Auto Workers union
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Volkswagen’s factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is likely to be the first test of the United Auto Workers’ effort to organize nonunion automobile plants across the nation. The union said workers … more
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FILE - People walk into and out of a Joann store, Sept. 6, 2007, in Garfield Heights, Ohio. The fabric and crafts retailer has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, as consumers continue to cut back on discretionary spending. In a Monday, March 18, 2024 release, the Hudson, Ohio-based company said that it expected to emerge from bankruptcy as early as the end of next month. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, file)
Crafts retailer Joann files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
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Fabric and crafts retailer Joann has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, as consumers continue to cut back on discretionary spending. In a Monday release, the Hudson, Ohio-based company said … more
FILE - Scott Kirby, CEO of United Airlines, during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation oversight hearing, Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The CEO of United Airlines says that a slew of recent incidents ranging from a panel that fell off a plane to another jet losing a wheel on takeoff will cause the airline to review its safety training for employees. In a memo to customers on Monday, March 18, 2024, Kirby tried to reassure travelers that safety is the airline's top priority.(Tom Brenner/The Washington Post via AP, File, Pool)
United Airlines CEO tries to reassure customers that the airline is safe despite recent incidents
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The CEO of United Airlines is trying to reassure travelers that the airline is safe despite a series of recent incidents ranging from a panel falling off a plane to an engine fire. CEO Scott Kirby … more
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Insider Q&A: CEO of fast-growing First Watch keeps the focus on breakfast
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A U.S. restaurant chain that only serves breakfast, brunch and lunch is keeping its original recipe for success as it evolves in response to changing work patterns. Florida-based First Watch is one … more
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An employee dressed as Chuck E. Cheese holds a flyer advertising new memberships at a location Wednesday, March 13, 2024, in San Diego. Paid loyalty programs are all the rage in the restaurant and retail world. Looking for reliable sales in an unpredictable spending environment, more companies have extended their points-based loyalty tiers to making their most dependable customers feel valued for an up-front fee. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Want to feel special? Stores and restaurants with paid memberships are betting on it
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Paid loyalty programs are all the rage in the restaurant and retail worlds. Looking for reliable sales in an unpredictable spending environment, more companies have extended their points-based … more
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FILE - Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell speaks during his appearance before the House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill, March 6, 2024, in Washington. The Federal Reserve is set this week to leave interest rates unchanged for a fifth straight time. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
Federal Reserve is likely to preach patience as consumers and markets look ahead to rate cuts
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Across the United States, many people are eagerly anticipating the Federal Reserve’s first cut to its benchmark interest rate this year: Prospective home buyers hope for lower mortgage rates. Wall … more
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