The action follows calls from bipartisan members of Congress and industry leaders warning about the potential consequences of the shortage.

U.S. home sales unexpectedly rose in January despite tight inventories boosting house prices.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Southern cities slammed by winter storms that left millions without power for days have traded one crisis for another: Busted water pipes ruptured by record-low temperatures...

Largest U.S. supermarket chain says decision was "accelerated" by Seattle mandate of extra pay for grocery workers.

Economists have argued the merits of minimum wage hikes for years

The coronavirus pandemic has had a major impact in the travel industry.

Carmakers and consumer-gadget companies are struggling to source enough computer chips.

A drive to increase enrollment at Albion College was successful in bringing more students to campus. It didn't solve Albion's problems.

The Covid-19 lockdown sent the flower market into free fall, but recently, flower prices have been picking up again. Who are the culprits behind this? Our old friends supply and demand, of course!

The nationwide move to working from home has been devastating to such makers of office furniture as Steelcase Corp. of Grand Rapids.It has been a boon, though, for Vincent Leman, the owner of a small furniture business in Benton Harbor. Sales jumped 60 percent last year, all of that increase coming…

A pizza maker for 40 years, Fredi Bello has sold out of pizza daily this week and his autism foundation has raised more than $26,000

Disney Plus notched 94.9 million customers worldwide as of Jan. 2, 2021, continuing the streaming service's meteoric rise.

Are we out of the uncanny valley? The MetaHuman Creator tool wants to help.

GM could take up to a $2 billion hit to pretax profits this year due to a chip shortfall, but will protect production of profitable pickups and SUVs.

This interactive tool allows users to explore how various policies to increase the federal minimum wage would affect earnings, employment, family income, and poverty.

A look inside the pricing playbooks used by dozens of unicorn companies with Pete Flint and Madhavan Ramanujam.

Some researchers and economists say a minimum wage raise will likely benefit workers in Mich., while opponents argue that small businesses may suffer

Ford will cut the number of shifts at the factories that produce its best-selling F-Series trucks for one week due to the global semiconductor chip shortage affecting the auto industry.

This year isn't turning out to be all bad. Peeps are back in production.

PayPal Holdings Inc beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly profit on Wednesday, with a coronavirus-driven shift to online shopping and digital transactions driving record levels of payment volumes for both the quarter and the year.

The deal vaults the seven-year-old start-up past many of the industry's longtime leaders in the race to become the Uber or AirBnb of private aviation.