Why pay raises are elusive even with US unemployment so low
WASHINGTON — With U.S. unemployment at a 17-year low and businesses complaining that they can’t fill jobs, you might expect pay to be rising sharply as companies try to attract or keep workers. It’s...
View ArticleNations to work on curbing climate change despite Trump
BERLIN — Governments, scientists, industry groups and environmental campaigners are meeting in Germany next week to discuss implementing a global agreement to curb climate change, despite uncertainty...
View ArticleGOP tax bill would end deduction for wildfire and earthquake victims — but...
By Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — The House Republican tax bill would eliminate the deduction for personal losses from wildfires, earthquakes and other natural disasters, but keep the...
View ArticleDish’s third-quarter loss of 129,000 customers includes every single...
After taking a beating from the hurricanes that pummeled Puerto Rico in September, Dish Network said Thursday it paused service for 145,000 customers who lost service on the island so they wouldn’t be...
View ArticleHurricane sets off fierce debate about leaving Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The disaster wrought by Hurricane Maria has set off an anguished debate across Puerto Rico, where friends, family and co-workers are arguing fiercely over the morality of...
View ArticleHurricane Harvey’s “Biblical” rainfall is getting more likely
WASHINGTON — The chances of a hurricane flooding parts of Texas, like Harvey did, have soared sixfold in just 25 years because of global warming and will likely triple once again before the end of the...
View ArticleHome Depot’s post-hurricane boom comes at expense of profit
By Matt Townsend, Bloomberg Home Depot saw sales surge in the wake of this year’s barrage of hurricanes, but the storms still took a toll on the retailer’s bottom line. Even as cleanup and rebuilding...
View ArticlePuerto Ricans came for jobs in Steamboat Springs but found much more
By John Russell, Steamboat Pilot & Today STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. — When Carlos Acosta arrived in Steamboat Springs in December 2016, he knew he would have a job, a steady source of income to...
View ArticleAdvocates say Texas exploiting day laborers after Harvey
HOUSTON — Guillermo Miranda Vazquez starts his day in a parking lot near the Home Depot where he easily finds work alongside other day laborers who are cleaning up Houston after Hurricane Harvey. Some...
View ArticleU.S. awarded $30M in contracts for Puerto Rico storm victims to unproven...
WASHINGTON — After Hurricane Maria damaged tens of thousands of homes in Puerto Rico, a newly created Florida company with an unproven record won more than $30 million in contracts from the Federal...
View ArticleNTSB cites weak safety culture by owner of the freighter El Faro, which sank...
The owner of the sunken cargo ship El Faro had a weak corporate safety culture that contributed to the vessel’s demise and the deaths of 33 mariners, federal accident investigators said on Tuesday. The...
View ArticleGlobal warming boosted Hurricane Harvey’s rainfall by at least 15 percent,...
NEW ORLEANS – There’s a theme lurking under the giant science meeting here along the Mississippi River: Extreme weather really is getting more extreme because of climate change. The human influence on...
View ArticleLack of transparency clouds Texas spending after Hurricane Harvey
FORT WORTH, Texas — Texas has been awarded billions in federal aid to help recover from Hurricane Harvey and the devastating flooding that followed, but it’s unclear how the state is spending its share...
View ArticleThousands of Puerto Rico police owed overtime call in sick
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Thousands of police officers are calling in sick every day in Puerto Rico, partly to press demands for unpaid overtime pay for hurricane recovery efforts as concerns grow over...
View ArticleU.S. stocks mount milestone-shattering run in 2017
Taken a look at your stock portfolio lately? It’s a good bet it’s racked up solid gains for the year. Wall Street has taken stock investors on a mostly smooth, record-shattering ride in 2017. The major...
View ArticleMore than 3 months after Hurricane Maria, barely half of Puerto Rico has power
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico authorities said Friday that nearly half of power customers in the U.S. territory still lack electricity more than three months after Hurricane Maria, sparking...
View ArticleStorm slaps coastal South with most snow in nearly 3 decades
SAVANNAH, Ga. — A brutal winter storm smacked the coastal Southeast with a rare blast of snow and ice Wednesday, hitting parts of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina with their heaviest snowfall in...
View ArticleEast coast storm gone, but cold will stick around through weekend
BOSTON — Frigid temperatures, some that felt as cold as minus 30 degrees, moved across the East Coast on Friday as the region dug out from a massive winter storm that brought more than a foot of snow,...
View ArticleXcel sending workers to Puerto Rico for Hurricane Maria recovery
More than 60 Xcel Energy workers will soon be navigating a mountainous region of Puerto Rico, pitching in on efforts to fully restore electricity to the hurricane-damaged U.S. territory. Xcel is among...
View ArticlePuerto Rico fears post-Maria murder surge: 11 days, 32 slain
CAROLINA, Puerto Rico — Before the sun rose on the first day of 2018, someone called 911 to report the charred, bullet-riddled body of a man with a snake-like tattoo on his left hand, lying beside a...
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