Trump’s Moves to Upend Federal Bureaucracy Touch Off Fear and Confusion
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Trump’s Moves to Upend Federal Bureaucracy Touch Off Fear and Confusion

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines An Education Department employee was attending a funeral this week when she got the call: She was being placed on administrative leave because she works on projects that connect Black students, among others, to federal government programs. A disabled veteran employed at the…

Amazon’s Fight With Unions Heads to Whole Foods Market
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Amazon’s Fight With Unions Heads to Whole Foods Market

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines At a sprawling Whole Foods Market in Philadelphia, a battle is brewing. The roughly 300 workers are set to vote on Monday on whether to form the first union in Amazon’s grocery business. Several store employees said they hoped a union could negotiate…

Trump’s D.E.I. Order Causes ‘Chaos’ Among Corporate Leaders
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Trump’s D.E.I. Order Causes ‘Chaos’ Among Corporate Leaders

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines More than 200 diversity officers, some from Fortune 500 companies and some from nonprofits, gathered last summer at N.Y.U. School of Law and on video to talk about the future of their diversity, equity and inclusion, or D.E.I., programs, which had become a…

Opinion | China Will Be Thrilled if Trump Kills America’s Green Economy
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Opinion | China Will Be Thrilled if Trump Kills America’s Green Economy

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In its heyday in the mid-20th century, the steel mill in Weirton, W.Va., employed 13,000 people and offered workers a relatively stable blue-collar life. In 2003, Weirton Steel filed for bankruptcy. Shops downtown boarded up their windows, and young people moved away from…

U.S. Orders Federal D.E.I. Efforts to Shut Down by Wednesday Night
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U.S. Orders Federal D.E.I. Efforts to Shut Down by Wednesday Night

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Trump administration on Tuesday ordered that officials overseeing diversity, equity and inclusion efforts across federal agencies be placed on leave and to take steps to close their offices by Wednesday evening. In a memo from the Office of Personnel Management, the heads…

U.S. Oil Production Is Booming. Oil Jobs Are Not.
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U.S. Oil Production Is Booming. Oil Jobs Are Not.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines For years, as oil and gas companies increased production, they hired lots of workers, enriching communities across the United States. That is no longer true. The country is pumping more oil than ever and near-record amounts of gas. But the companies that extract,…

Cleveland-Cliffs Signals a Possible New Bid for U.S. Steel
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Cleveland-Cliffs Signals a Possible New Bid for U.S. Steel

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A possible new takeover bid for U.S. Steel emerged on Monday, teeing up more turmoil over the once-dominant company’s future after President Biden’s decision to block its acquisition by a Japanese company. Lourenco Goncalves, the chief executive of an American competitor, Cleveland-Cliffs, said…