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Justin Fox: A '100% American' farm workforce? That's delusional

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Want a job picking fruit? There are thousands available right now on the U.S. Department of Labor’s Seasonal Jobs website. Orchard work paying $19.82 an hour in Washington, $17.96 in Pennsylvania and $15.87 in West Virginia. Berry planting and picking jobs at $19.97 an hour in California, $16.23 in Florida and $16.08 in Georgia.

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Beyond missing pets and packages: How Nextdoor plans to reshape its social network

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Nextdoor, the once-hot social network for neighborhoods, wants to claw its way back to the top and prove that people can use the platform for more than just finding lost cats.

The San Francisco company's shares have plunged more than 80% since its market debut in 2021. Nextdoor shined brightly when people locked at home during the COVID-19 ...Read more

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Victims of gift card scam sue Target, allege Minneapolis retailer profited from fraud

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Four fraud victims who were tricked by con artists into buying Target gift cards as part of scams allege the retailer is purposefully failing to catch criminals because the company profits from selling ill-gotten merchandise.

The victims, all residents of Pennsylvania, on Monday filed a putative class-action lawsuit against Minneapolis-based ...Read more

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Chicago Board of Election workers should not be barred from unionizing, judge finds

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The Chicago Board of Election Commissioners had previously argued that the state’s election code barred its employees from forming a union. But the law shouldn’t be read that way, administrative law Judge Anna Hamburg-Gal found in an order Monday that paves the way for official recognition of the union.

City elections workers, including ...Read more

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Stellantis brings back sales leader Stoicevich to work with dealers

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Stellantis NV's new CEO Antonio Filosa continues to tweak his North American leadership team, with the latest move bringing back veteran sales executive Jason Stoicevich to work with regional dealers.

Stoicevich had briefly been the American sales chief last year before departing for personal reasons. After a stint as a vice president at ...Read more

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US home prices are losing steam with most big markets below peak

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The U.S. housing market is close to stalling out, with prices in more than half the country’s top 100 housing markets now below their peak, according to the latest data from Intercontinental Exchange.

The annual nationwide price increase slowed to 1.3% in June, the slowest pace in two years and down from 1.6% the previous month, ICE’s ...Read more

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State Farm defends hefty 27.2% hike in Illinois homeowners insurance rates

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Challenged by everyone from consumer groups to Gov. JB Pritzker over its imminent 27.2% homeowners insurance rate increase in Illinois, State Farm faces the question: Will it seek to defend its widely criticized decision?

The answer: hail yes.

Citing more frequent extreme weather events such as wind, hail and tornados, insufficient premiums to...Read more

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US core CPI rises less than expected again despite tariff impact

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Underlying U.S. inflation rose by less than expected for a fifth month in June even as the details signaled companies are beginning to more meaningfully pass some tariff-related costs to consumers.

The consumer price index, excluding the often volatile food and energy categories, increased 0.2% from May, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics ...Read more

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Step inside FedEx's huge new distribution hub at Detroit Metro Airport

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ROMULUS, Michigan — One recent afternoon at FedEx’s new massive distribution hub, packages moved swiftly along an automated conveyor system as they were scanned, sorted, and prepped to be flown to their next destination.

The sounds of automated machinery filled the 300,000-square-foot facility — nearly twice the size of the previous ramp ...Read more

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It's peak season in Malibu, but these small businesses are still struggling after the Palisades fire

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LOS ANGELES — Six months after the Palisades fire roared down Pacific Coast Highway, the Country Kitchen in Malibu is open for business, but many customers have yet to return.

The no-frills eatery features a few outdoor tables and ocean views, nestled in a narrow parking lot alongside a liquor store and gift shop. The restaurant, which opened...Read more

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This is the rare bright spot in a tough Hollywood job market

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LOS ANGELES — Toni Gray’s phone is blowing up these days.

The head of production at Dhar Mann Studios, which makes shows for YouTube and other online platforms, said entertainment industry friends in Los Angeles had once held out before seeking work in the digital realm.

But now, with jobs few and far between at the legacy studios, they ...Read more

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How the $1,000 'Trump accounts' for American babies compare to 529s and custodial Roth IRAs

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President Donald Trump signed his new tax law on July 4, which included a provision that creates and funds investment accounts for babies born in the next few years. The accounts will be allowed to compound and grow tax-deferred, similar to the way some retirement accounts work.

“In addition to the substantial financial benefits of investing ...Read more

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Trump's temporary tax breaks: 5 'big beautiful bill' provisions that may not stick around for long

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Millions of Americans will see significant shifts in their tax bills under President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” The sweeping legislation delivers several key tax breaks, including no federal income tax on some tips and overtime pay, a car loan interest deduction, a higher state and local tax (SALT) deduction and a new “bonus”...Read more

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HUD Chicago office taking on more public housing authority oversight as staff dwindles regionally, nationally

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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Chicago office will now oversee 65 public housing authorities in Wisconsin because of staffing shortages in the agency’s Milwaukee office.

This represents a roughly 62% increase in the number of public housing authorities the Chicago office is responsible for holding accountable to ...Read more

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Nearly 600 Daimler Truck workers affected by layoffs in N. Carolina

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Nearly 600 manufacturing Daimler Truck North America employees are temporarily losing their jobs in the Charlotte, North Carolina, region.

Daimler Truck North America is temporarily laying off 573 workers update in Gaston County, according to a N.C. Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act report filed Friday with the North Carolina ...Read more

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787 switches at center of Air India crash probe were scrutinized before

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Boeing’s engine fuel control switches, now the center of the investigation into the fatal Air India crash in June, have been scrutinized before.

The Federal Aviation Administration warned in December 2018 that it had received reports that those switches, designed to shut down the aircraft’s engines, were installed with the locking feature ...Read more

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Starbucks tightens in-person work policy, offers buyouts

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Starbucks will require its corporate workforce to work in the office four days a week this fall, and is offering buyouts to employees who want to leave the company.

The Seattle-based coffee giant will also force managers to relocate to corporate offices in Seattle or Toronto, ending remote options for them. Employees who aren’t managers but ...Read more

Musk says he will seek shareholder approval for Tesla investment in xAI

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Tech billionaire Elon Musk said he would like Tesla to invest in his artificial intelligence company xAI.

While Musk is considering the relationship between several of his businesses, he said on X that he does not support a merger between Tesla and xAI.

"If it was up to me, Tesla would have invested in xAI long ago," Musk wrote on X on Sunday....Read more

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Citizens Insurance's diversion of cases to arbitrator unconstitutional, federal lawsuit alleges

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A new federal lawsuit asserts that state-owned Citizens Property Insurance Corp.’s ability to divert claims disputes to state arbitrators is unconstitutional and must be stopped.

The complaint, filed on July 10 in U.S. District Court in Miami, seeks to prohibit the so-called insurer of last resort from enforcing a binding arbitration clause ...Read more

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Zuckerberg says Meta will build gigawatt-size data centers

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Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said the company is building several massive data centers to power its artificial intelligence efforts with the first one expected to come online next year.

“We’re calling the first one Prometheus and it’s coming online in ‘26,” Zuckerberg said in a post on his social ...Read more