Some workers at the Amy’s Kitchen factory in Santa Rosa, California, say that workers are becoming injured in an effort to maintain the speed of production lines.
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Cost of masks and tests deepens a pandemic wedge between the haves and the have-nots
In recent weeks, Americans have discovered that the financial costs of the pandemic — masks, rapid tests and more — are increasingly falling on their shoulders.
Netflix raises prices on plans in US, Canada
Netflix is raising prices for its video streaming customers in the U.S. and Canada, less than a year and a half since its last price increase.
Mixed response from businesses after SCOTUS ruling on vaccine mandates
Following the Supreme Court’s ruling on Thursday to block President Joe Biden’s vaccine-or-testing mandate for large employers, the surge in the omicron
FedEx wants to install anti-missile lasers in its cargo jets
Delivery giant FedEx is asking federal regulators for permission to install anti-missile lasers in its cargo jets.
Federal Reserve scrambled to make sense of Trump's 2016 election, transcripts show
The election of Donald Trump threw Federal Reserve officials into a scramble to determine what it meant for the American economy, the world, and the central
Some could see their student loan debt canceled in $1.85B deal. Here's who qualifies.
The Navient student loan debt lawsuit resolution is ‘a victory for student loan borrowers,’ according to a bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general.
Craft cannabis industry in California is 'on the brink of collapse,' advocates say
Cannabis advocates, small farmers and business owners called Thursday for an overhaul of the California marijuana tax system as they struggle to keep afloat.
'We deserve more': Grocery workers lament extra work, lack of hazard pay as omicron decimates workforce
As the omicron variant spreads across the country, a wave of retail workers are calling out sick, with some forced to use earned sick time to recover and
'A slap in the face': Nurses told to use vacation and sick days to stay home if they test positive
Early in the pandemic, nurses were celebrated as heroes, with nightly symphonies of clapping or banging pots and pans.