One of the United States’ biggest rail investments in more than a century could be an 88-mile line in Utah that would run through tribal lands and national forest.
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Number of Americans applying for jobless aid rises, but not enough to cause concern
U.S. applications for unemployment benefits rose by 21,000 to 248,000 for the week ending August 5, from 227,000 the week before, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
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Biden pitches his efforts on clean energy, infrastructure as key to reviving manufacturing jobs
The claim that the administration has bolstered U.S. manufacturing is backed by a rise in construction spending on new factories, but factory hiring has begun to slow in recent months.
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Unprecedented damage from storms this year is upending the insurance industry
The storms in the U.S. were so severe, there were 10 that resulted in damages of $1 billion or more, and Texas was the state most severely effected.
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How hip-hop went from being shunned by big business to multimillion-dollar collaborations
The music genre germinated 50 years ago as an escape from the poverty and violence of New York City’s most distressed borough, the Bronx, where few wanted to invest in its businesses or its people.
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Thousands of Los Angeles city workers walk off job for 24 hours alleging unfair labor practices
SEIU Local 721 says members voted to strike because the city has failed to bargain in good faith and engaged in labor practices that restricted employee and union rights.
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UNE professor to lead national gerontology group
Marilyn Gugliucci heads the geriatrics education and research program at the University of New England’s College of Osteopathic Medicine.
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More teen workers in Maine are getting hurt on the job
Maine’s Department of Labor says Maine’s tight labor market is pushing more businesses to hire teens, partly accounting for an increase in workplace violations that have included injuries.
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Harris will announce a new rule that raises worker pay on federal construction projects
The Labor Department will provide the first update in 40 years to the Davis-Bacon Act of 1931, which requires the payment of prevailing local wages on public works.
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Amtrak Downeaster ridership rebounds from pandemic slowdown
The 2023 total surpassed 500,000 passengers for the first time since 2019, indicating that the Boston-to-Brunswick service has mostly recovered from pandemic-related disruptions.