BOSTON (AP) — The State Department will offer rewards up to $10 million for information leading to the identification of anyone engaged in foreign state-sanctioned malicious cyber activity, including ransomware attacks, against critical U.S. infrastructure. MORE
Economists expected that the jobs numbers for June would total around 706,000. But, nonfarm payrolls totaled 850,000 for the month, much better than the upwardly revised 583,000 seen in May. The unemployment rate rose from 5.9% MORE
President Joe Biden is raising wages for federal firefighters to no less than $15 an hour, as the White House seeks to put a spotlight on the growing threats of wildfires and heat waves exacerbated MORE
Inflation soared 5 percent in May, the fastest year-on-year pace since 2008, as surging demand from the reopening economy met supply chains choked with shortages. Rising prices in the heating, yet fragile, economy are continuing MORE
ProPublica, a non-profit newsroom that investigates abuses of power, released a report of IRS information that shows how little some of the wealthiest Americans pay in income taxes — sometimes even nothing. ProPublica obtained a MORE
After a disappointing April jobs report, the US added 559,000 jobs in May and the unemployment rate ticked down to 5.8 percent from 6.1 percent, according to data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor MORE
President Biden visited Ohio to pitch his economic plans for the future at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland. Biden touted the proposed American Jobs Plan and the American Families Plan, insisting the country is at MORE
Colonial Pipeline Co. paid nearly $5 million to Eastern European hackers on Friday, contradicting reports earlier this week that the company had no intention of paying an extortion fee to help restore the country’s largest MORE
Dow Jones and some economists estimated the US would add 1 million new jobs and an the unemployment rate would fall to 5.8%; but…that didn’t happen. The US only added 266K jobs and the unemployment rate MORE
As more people got shots in their arms and more economic aid from the government hit American wallets and bank accounts, ‘gross domestic product, the sum of all goods and services produced in the U.S. MORE
John knocked it out of the park again with the main topic: National Debt The national debt has long been portrayed as a burden we’re placing on future generations. John Oliver discusses how national debt MORE
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ripped into the federal government’s continued pandemic ban on cruise ships using U.S. ports, threatening Friday to file a lawsuit if one of the state’s biggest tourism sectors is not allowed MORE
“Those jobs have left Ohio. They’re all coming back. … Don’t move. Don’t sell your house,” – Trump said at a 2017 Youngstown rally. Lordstown Motors Corporation is an American electric automobile manufacturer. The company is MORE
The relief bill under consideration by the House after passage by the Senate would increase subsidies to people who buy Affordable Care Act health plans. With the increased subsidies, costs would come down for many MORE
Although the US economy is far from recovering completely since the pandemic hit a year ago, February jobs report show positive signs. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics, “total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 379,000 MORE
The U.S. Senate is set to take up the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill today, with Democrats set to stand firm on key priorities while sorting out some aspects that have come under scrutiny. Their MORE
Several governors — 21 GOP and one Democrat, Kansas Governor Laura Kelly — are criticizing President Biden’s American Relief Plan as penalizing those who resisted lock downs during the pandemic. MORE
Uber suffered a major defeat in one of its most important markets on Friday when Britain’s Supreme Court, in a ruling that could threaten the future of the already unprofitable company, said a group of MORE
President Joe Biden dismissed a Democratic plan to forgive up to $50,000 in student-loan debt. “I will not make that happen,” he said Tuesday, adding he didn’t think he could do it unilaterally. The proposal MORE
If there were any doubt that Joe Biden’s economic proposals represent a big break with the policies of the Obama and Clinton Administrations, the debate about Biden’s $1.9 trillion covid-19 relief plan dispelled it. For good or MORE
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell slightly last week to 793,000, evidence that job cuts remain high despite a substantial decline in new viral infections. Last week’s total declined from 812,000 the previous MORE
“Biden’s plan, which the secretary said is “big enough to address (the) full range of needs” facing the country’s economy, includes a wide range of immediate assistance for struggling families, such as $1,400 stimulus checks MORE
As a candidate, Donald Trump promised “brilliant trade” policies that would drop the national trade deficit “like you’ve never seen before.” WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States’ trade deficit surged to its highest level in MORE
“Though we gained jobs in January after a December loss, this is not a we’ve-turned-the-corner report,” said Robert Frick, corporate economist at Navy Federal Credit Union. “We especially shouldn’t take solace that the unemployment rate MORE
Democrats are set to move forward with COVID-19 relief bill as holdout Senator Joe Manchin (WV) indicated his support. On Monday Pelosi and Schumer introduced a budget resolution bill that would allow them to pass MORE