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Delayed tariff impact starting to hit, could cause companies to reduce head count in 2026
President Donald Trump’s tariffs, aimed at reshoring American jobs lost to overseas manufacturing, could end up lowering domestic head count instead, according to recent statements from corporate executives and economic forecasters. With the labor market already on its heels in a no-fire, no-hire climate, concerns are rising that the duties on U.S. imports will raise […]
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Michael and Susan Dell to donate $6.25 billion to fund ‘Trump accounts’ for 25 million U.S. kids
Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies, speaking at the Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona, Spain, on Feb. 27, 2024. Joan Cros | Nurphoto | Getty Images Michael and Susan Dell announced Tuesday that they have committed $6.25 billion to fund investment accounts for some 25 million American children. The couple’s donation will […]
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CNBC’s Inside India newsletter: Tricky labor reset — balancing business interests with worker welfare
This report is from this week’s CNBC’s “Inside India” newsletter which brings you timely, insightful news and market commentary on the emerging powerhouse. Subscribe here. The big story India lives in contradictions — think landing a spacecraft on moon but not getting basic infrastructure right, or being the world’s fastest growing economy that has millions struggling […]
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At age 16, he spent $23 to buy a website domain. 9 years later, his blue-collar business brings in $1.3 million a year
Zames Chew and Amos Chew are the co-founders of Repair.sg. Courtesy of Repair.sg Growing up, Zames Chew thought he wanted to work a white-collar role at a company like Google, but his career took a different turn. Today, the 26-year-old runs the Singapore-based handyman service Repair.sg, alongside his 24-year-old brother and co-founder, Amos Chew. In […]
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Air traffic controllers, technicians with perfect attendance in shutdown to get $10,000 bonuses, FAA says
An airplane takes off from New York’s Laguardia Airport after the FAA ordered flight cuts at 40 major airports amid the ongoing U.S. government shutdown in the Queens borough of New York City, U.S., November 7, 2025. Ryan Murphy | Reuters Air traffic controllers and technicians with perfect attendance during the government shutdown will receive […]
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The senior population is booming. Caregiving is struggling to keep up
Maskot | Maskot | Getty Images In November 2022, Beth Pinsker’s 76-year-old mother began to get sick. Ann Pinsker, an otherwise healthy woman, had elected to have a spinal surgery to preserve her ability to walk after having back issues. What Ann and Beth had thought would be a straightforward recovery process instead yielded complications […]
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Starbucks Workers United escalates strike during busy holiday season
Starbucks workers walk a picket line as they go on strike outside a Starbucks store on Nov. 13, 2025 in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images One week into what baristas have threatened to make the “largest, longest” strike in Starbucks’ history, the […]
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Fed likely to not cut rates in December following delayed September data, according to market odds
Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, during a news conference following a Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images Odds of a December rate cut remained low following the release of delayed jobs data. Markets were last pricing […]
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Inside Ford’s new world headquarters: Scratch kitchens, rotisserie chickens and design secrets
The exterior of the main entrance of Ford Motor’s new world headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan. Ford DEARBORN, Mich. — Ford Motor is swapping its 1950s “Glass House” headquarters for a new, modern industrial facility to promote collaboration and better appease thousands of employees who have returned to offices in recent years after remote working. The […]
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The government shutdown is over. The air traffic controller shortage is not
Planes line up on the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport on November 10, 2025 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images The U.S. has been scrambling to hire more air traffic controllers for years. The longest-ever federal government shutdown might have made that even harder. “We need more of them […]
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