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Unionized Postal Workers Brace for Trump Administration’s Assault
Trump is reportedly on the verge of issuing an executive order to dissolve the independent leadership of USPS.
Wall St ends higher after Fed chief's comments, but posts big weekly loss
U.S. stocks finished higher on Friday, rebounding from early declines after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the ...
Stock market today: Wall Street ends its wild week with what else but more swings
U.S. stocks rose, but only after careening through another wild day. The S&P 500 climbed 0.6% Friday after erasing an earlier ...
The US economy added 151,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate rose to 4.1%
The February jobs report comes as the Trump administration continues large-scale layoffs of government workers.
Post-election stock rally dissolves as trade policy bewilders investors
The Nasdaq composite index has fallen more than 10 percent from its December peak. The S&P 500 now sits below its level on ...
DOGE job cuts push U.S. layoffs to postpandemic high. Is the labor market crumbling?
Challenger put the federal job cuts at 62,242 last month, up from a scanty 151 in January and February of 2024 combined. Historically very few federal employees lose their jobs each year. Retail and ...
America’s Richest Oligarch Wants to Privatize USPS and Amtrak
Elon Musk said Wednesday that he wants to privatize the U.S. Postal Service and Amtrak, according to reports from multiple ...
Trump could back off on some tariffs today … again
The next day, the US Postal Service stopped all package deliveries from China from entering the United States because it was unable to abide by the new trade policy. But hours later, the de minimis ...