ECONOMY

On Tax Day, An Economist Outlines How The Payroll Tax Works

4:33pm April 18, 2017

It may be tax day, but many workers pay more in taxes every time they get a paycheck. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Eugene Steuerle, co-founder of the Tax Policy Center, about the payroll tax and how it works.

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Vice President Pence and Japanese Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Taro Aso leave the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on Tuesday. Pence said the U.S. and Japan had launched talks that could eventually result in a bilateral trade

In Japan, Vice President Pence Pushes For Bilateral Trade Deal

3:05pm April 18, 2017

by Camila Domonoske

President Trump's administration has rejected the Trans-Pacific Partnership and is seeking one-on-one talks. Japan, meanwhile, has indicated it wants to push ahead with TPP — with or without the U.S.

Carla and Jeremy Lang push their twin 18-month-old sons in a stroller while looking at ovens and stoves at a Sears northwest of Chicago.

Its Survival In Doubt, Sears Struggles To Transform Once Again

11:39am April 18, 2017

by Cheryl Corley

More than a century ago, Sears was the Amazon of its time — a dominant name in retail. Sears has been in a long and painful decline, but executives say they have a plan to turn the company around.

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News Brief: Trump Executive Order, Pence In Japan, Sears In Trouble

6:40am April 18, 2017

President Trump plans to sign an order on "Hire American" and "Buy American." Vice President Pence meets with Japan's prime minister after Trump targeted Japan for its huge trade surplus with the U.S.

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Kevin Butt, Toyota's regional environmental sustainability director, at a facility that uses methane to generate clean electricity to help run Toyota's auto plant in central Kentucky.

Big Business Pushes Coal-Friendly Kentucky To Embrace Renewables

6:33pm April 17, 2017

by Jennifer Ludden

Nearly 90 percent of Kentucky's electricity is from coal — the cheap energy source that helped build its manufacturing economy. Now it's struggling to respond as more businesses want clean energy.

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There are signs that fewer immigrants in the U.S. illegally are filing taxes than in previous years.

Tax Filings Seen Dipping Amid Trump Crackdown On Illegal Immigration

1:49pm April 17, 2017

by Richard Gonzales

Last year nearly 4.5 million people without Social Security numbers filed federal tax returns. Many were in the U.S. illegally. But there are signs that fewer such immigrants are filing this year.

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Chef Jeremy Fox's inventive dish: double-chucked spring peas sprinkled with white chocolate and roasted macadamia nuts. It's served with a bit of pea broth poured on the side, "to retain the crunch." Each pea is shucked, blanched and squeezed to get the h

'Vegetable Whisperer' Chef Plants The Seeds Of His Own Reinvention

9:50am April 17, 2017

by Mandalit del Barco

With a vegetables-only restaurant in Napa Valley, chef Jeremy Fox was a rising star. But the stress was too much and it all fell apart. Now he is back with a vegetable cookbook.

'Brave New Workers': Ex-Construction Worker Builds A New Life Grooming Cats

7:49am April 17, 2017

"Brave New Workers" tells stories of Americans adapting to a changing economy. This week: a former contractor who lost his business when the housing bubble burst found a new livelihood grooming cats.

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This dish features a scallop in its shell. Bivalves, like scallops are threatened by rising ocean acidification. Wist left it in the shell, so people would think of it "as an animal and not just a scallop on a plate."

Artist Sets Futuristic Dinner Party In World Reshaped By Rising Seas

12:50pm April 16, 2017

by Rhitu Chatterjee

How will our diets shift as climate change causes sea-level rise and coastal flooding? Photographer Allie Wist attempts to answer that with pictures of an imagined "post-sea-level-rise dinner party."

One of Grab Your Wallet's biggest targets is Ivanka Trump and companies that sell her fashion line of clothes, jewelry, shoes and accessories.

#GrabYourWallet's Anti-Trump Boycott Looks To Expand Its Reach

8:12am April 16, 2017

by Eric Westervelt

Shannon Coulter, the founder of the anti-Trump boycott movement #GrabYourWallet, believes the protest is having a broader cultural impact beyond affecting a corporation's bottom line.

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