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NEW YORK (AP) — Payless ShoeSource is shuttering all of its 2,100 remaining stores in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, joining a list of iconic names like Toys R Us and Bon-Ton that have...

Amazon almost doubled its profits from $5.6 billion in 2017 to $11.2 billion in 2018, but the company isn’t expected to pay a cent in federal taxes this year, according to a new report. The Institute...

The recent mass store closures at retail chains Toys R Us and Sears have spawned a campaign to guarantee severance pay to laid-off workers. Its backers now face their first big legislative test: a...

Ernst & Young says it's committed to gender diversity. A former partner tells a different story. View the Original Article

WAXSHAW, N.C. ― When Karen Ward started at Ernst & Young in 2013, only four senior managers in her division at the consulting megafirm were women. All the partners were men. This was a red...

Italian luxury brand Gucci lit up social media after images of a balaclava knit top that looked like blackface caricatures surfaced, leading the brand to apologize on Twitter.  “Gucci deeply apologizes for the offense caused...

Instacart, a grocery delivery app, is changing the way it distributes customer tips to its delivery workers in light of reports that the company and others like it unfairly used the tip money to...

General Motors will begin laying off 4,200 salaried workers Monday as part of its scramble to save billions of dollars in annual costs, The Detroit News reported. GM announced in November that it was cutting...

The maker of America’s iconic Harley-Davidson motorcycles, rocked by President Donald Trump’s trade war and falling demand, barely broke even in its latest earnings report and shares plummeted the most in a year before recovering. Harley’s American...

Trump once extolled the motorcycle maker, but has added to its sales struggle with his trade war and angry boycott tweets. View the Original Article

A Change.org petition says a logo stamped into the sole resembles the word Allah in Arabic and is "blasphemous." View the Original Article

An online petition with nearly 15,000 signatures asks Nike to recall its Nike Air Max 270 shoe, saying the logo resembles the word Allah in Arabic and “will surely be trampled, kicked and become soiled...

(Reuters) - Foxconn Technology Group is reconsidering plans to make advanced liquid crystal display panels at a $10 billion Wisconsin campus, and said it intends to hire mostly engineers and researchers rather than the...

Jan 29 (Reuters) - Power provider PG&E Corp filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday, succumbing to liabilities stemming from wildfires in Northern California in 2017 and 2018. The owner of the biggest...

The company faces dozens of lawsuits from owners of homes and businesses that burned during the Camp Fire and other 2017 fires. View the Original Article

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is filing charges against Chinese tech giant Huawei. A 13-count indictment was unsealed Monday in New York charging Huawei, two of its affiliates and a top executive at...

Moving the needle calls for working together. View the Original Article

A trove of more than 24 million financial and banking documents, representing tens of thousands of loans and mortgages from some of the biggest banks in the U.S., has been found online after a...

Brandon Truaxe, the former CEO and founder of the skin care company Deciem, has died at age 40. An executive at the company confirmed Truaxe’s death in an email to Vox, which also obtained the email...

Jan 17 (Reuters) - Children’s clothing retailer Gymboree Group Inc filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the second time in almost two years, and said on Wednesday it will close more than 800 Gymboree...

"If training the future workforce is a fundamental role of education, it’s just as important a role for business." View the Original Article

Pacific Gas and Electric, the power company blamed for sparking several devastating wildfires in California in recent years, announced Monday it will file for bankruptcy later this month. The company is facing billions of dollars...

The aerospace company pointed to "extraordinarily difficult challenges ahead." View the Original Article

In a major shakeup at Elon Musk’s aerospace company, SpaceX announced Friday that it will cut 10 percent of its employees. Behind the move is a planned realignment of its workforce in order to meet...

WASHINGTON ― It should be obvious by now that Mexico is not going to pay for “the wall” ― if a wall is actually built at all.   Significant parts of the government are shut...

NEW YORK (AP) — Blake Nordstrom, who led the upscale department store chain Nordstrom as co-president with his brothers Erik and Peter, has died. He was 58. The Seattle-based company did not disclose the cause...

NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market ended a miserable year on a positive note but still closed out 2018 with its worst showing in a decade. After setting a series of records through the...

Despite stock market fluctuations, a partial government shutdown and growing concerns over potentially slowing global growth, consumers in the U.S. reportedly opened their wallets with abandon this holiday season. MasterCard SpendingPulse, which tracks spending both...

People on Twitter are eviscerating an article and a tweet accompanying it that claim millennials, “the largest demographic in the American workforce,” are “increasingly deciding to freelance.” Millennials are now the largest demographic in the American...

These families worry about lost wages if they take off and how to pay for child care if they work over the holidays. View the Original Article

Jasmine, 32, is looking forward to Christmas, a rare opportunity to spend an entire day with her twin 8-year-old boys. But she’s also anxious ― anxious that she’ll disappoint them because she can’t afford...

U.S. stocks fell sharply Monday, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 400 points and extending the market’s losses after its worst week in more than seven years. Health care, technology and industrial...

Ahead of a looming government shutdown, the Dow-Jones Industrial Average experienced its worst week since the 2008 global financial crisis as stocks continued to plummet on Friday.  The Dow ― which indicates the value of...

A few years ago, the burrito chain Chipotle began requiring employees to sign mandatory arbitration agreements. The idea was to force the workers to give up their right to sue collectively over wage theft...

The company is facing a flood of arbitration cases over alleged wage theft. A judge called the company's efforts to block them "unseemly." View the Original Article

While in prison, Topeka K. Sam developed blood clots so severe that when she got her period, she bled through her sanitary pads. Sam desperately needed something more absorbent, which wasn’t available in the...

Facebook reportedly gave some of the world’s largest tech companies access to users’ personal data, including allowing some firms to read and delete users’ private messages and obtain contact information through their friends, without...

It’s important for employees to find fulfillment at their jobs — here are some ways organizations can help them do so. View the Original Article

LOS ANGELES, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Darlene Coker knew she was dying. She just wanted to know why. She knew that her cancer, mesothelioma, arose in the delicate membrane surrounding her lungs and other organs....

The earliest mentions of tainted J&J talc that Reuters found come from 1957 and 1958 reports by a consulting lab. View the Original Article

“The time is now for business leaders to step up and take action — this is our responsibility.” View the Original Article

On a recent Thursday evening, hours after closing, Francine Delarosa pulled up a moving box in the dismantled office of her 4,000-square-foot boutique. She sat down on the makeshift chair for a moment and...

“The work we see happening now in workforce development, between corporations and nonprofit education partners like ours, is some of the most innovative, intuitive and impactful of all time.” View the Original Article

“It will take a concerted, conscious effort to create the change we are looking for.” View the Original Article

This 7-year-old isn’t playing when it comes to earning power. Ryan of Ryan ToysReview is the highest-paid YouTuber, making $22 million from June 1, 2017, to June 1, 2018, Forbes reported Monday. He makes the big coin by playing...

Taking a stand is more important now than ever before. View the Original Article

LONDON (Reuters) ― Royal Dutch Shell caved in to growing investor pressure over climate change on Monday, setting out plans to introduce industry-leading carbon emissions targets linked to executive pay. Rivals BP and Total have already set...

“Why aren’t our corporate leaders a better reflection of our diverse employees, customers and communities?” View the Original Article