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Labor Department to release clues as to how hot the summer job market may be

5:10am June 02, 2023

The Labor Department reports Friday on job growth in the month of May. Many employers say they're still hiring, but they're not as desperate for workers as they were at this time last year.

How will generative AI — such as ChatGPT — affect the workplace?

5:10am June 02, 2023

New technologies often benefit highly paid, college-educated professionals — while putting others out of work. Research indicates generative AI could benefit middle-skill workers in surprising ways.

In this Oct. 8, 2019, file photo, the Central Arizona Project canal runs through rural desert near Phoenix. The canal diverts Colorado River water down a 336-mile long system of aqueducts, tunnels, pumping plants and pipelines to the state of Arizona.

Facing water shortages, Arizona will curtail some new development around Phoenix

9:27pm June 01, 2023

by Kirk Siegler

The state of Arizona today said it will no longer issue new development approvals based on groundwater alone.

By an 8-to-1 vote, the high court ruled against unionized truck drivers who walked off the job, but it preserved the rights of workers to time their strikes for maximum effect.

Unions are relieved as the Supreme Court leaves the right to strike intact

6:00pm June 01, 2023

by Nina Totenberg

The high court ruled against truck drivers who walked off the job, leaving their trucks loaded with wet concrete, but it preserved the rights of workers to time their strikes for maximum effect.

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Former President Eisenhower, addresses the nation on the American intervention in Formosa (now Taiwan) in an undated archival picture. Eisenhower was involved in the country's first debt ceiling fight when he asked Congress to raise the limit by $15 billion. The Senate refused, ushering the first tussle over the country's debt.

The first debt ceiling fight was in 1953. It looked almost exactly like the one today

4:08pm June 01, 2023

by Stacey Vanek Smith

Debt ceiling dramas have been going on a long time. The first one happened exactly 70 years ago. President Eisenhower asked Congress for an extra $15 billion and the Senate said, "No dice."

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Dancers at a Los Angeles topless bar become the country's first unionized strippers

4:08pm June 01, 2023

by Sergio Olmos

Dancers at a Los Angeles bar recently became the first strippers in the nation to win union recognition. Dancers at Star Garden hope to inspire other strippers across the country to unionize.

Tupperware is now selling some products at Target, but it still makes most of its money through individual sellers.

Tupperware once changed women's lives. Now it struggles to survive

4:08pm June 01, 2023

by Alina Selyukh

The brand turned homemakers into saleswomen and became synonymous with kitchen storage. But it has relied on Tupperware parties for sales--and struggled to keep its business fresh. Is its fate sealed?

Adidas begins selling off Yeezy brand sneakers, 7 months after cutting ties with Ye

11:48am June 01, 2023

The German firm is selling shoes created with Ye (formerly Kanye West) before his antisemitic remarks led to termination of the deal in October. Some of the proceeds will go to anti-racism nonprofits.

Deputy Director of the National Economic Council Bharat Ramamurti, pictured at a White House briefing last August, spoke to Morning Edition after the House passed its debt ceiling bill.

'This is a compromise': How the White House is defending the debt ceiling bill

9:55am June 01, 2023

by Rachel Treisman

The House's debt ceiling bill has critics on both sides. Bharat Ramamurti, the deputy director of the National Economic Council, says the administration was able to secure some of its key priorities.

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Amid economic uncertainty, employers may interview potential hires multiple times

7:18am June 01, 2023

A recruiter and a dating coach weigh in on the stress of multiple rounds of interviews before a job-seeker gets an offer.

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