Economics

Ford Motor Co. on Wednesday posted its highest first-quarter net income in a decade but said it could lose half of planned production in the second quarter due to the semiconductor shortage that has halted some high-profit assembly lines. The automaker said it earned $3.3 billion from January…

LANSING — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Thursday announced a plan to tie the lifting of coronavirus pandemic restrictions to Michigan's vaccination rate, meaning in-office work restrictions are likely to ease before the end of May. Whitmer outlined four specific benchmarks that must be reached to…

Answer: Questions: What is your desired career at this point? Why does that interest you? What education/training do you need for this career? Have you ever had a conversation with someone who does this job?

Drivers will be offered pre-paid debit cards to reimburse their time and costs for each Detroit resident brought to a COVID-19 vaccination site.

The 'return to work' grants would cover up to 400,000 residents.

LANSING — Unemployed people who find a job would get $1,000 as part of $12.7 billion in proposed COVID-19 relief spending that began advancing in the Michigan Legislature on Wednesday.The "return to work" grants would cover up to 400,000 residents. They are included in supplemental budget…

Detroit, with a still-lagging COVID-19 vaccination rate, is taking its "Good Neighbor" strategy up a notch.The city, starting Monday, is offering $50 MasterCard debit gift cards to anyone who drives a Detroiter to their vaccination appointment at TCF Center's drive-through site. The Good Neighbor…

Listeners may need to get more accustomed to paying for their favorite shows.

In an effort to encourage more sustainable cooking, we won't be publishing new beef recipes on Epicurious.

U-Haul marketing president said Hawaii U-Haul facilities are the busiest they’ve been in years.

Answer: $30 to $280 Questions: Have you damaged your phone in the last year? If so, have you gotten it repaired? The cost of AppleCare+ is either a one-time fee of $200 or $10 per month. If you want loss and theft protection too, it’s $270 or $13.50 per month.

The Noid is back. And it's gotten a makeover.Ann Arbor-based Domino's Pizza has brought back its red-suited, long-eared villain from the late 80s in a campaign that hypes its new driverless pizza delivery.In a nostalgia-meets-the-future approach, the Noid is returning to TV ads. And that's not the…

Potential jobs candidates are met by a 7-foot robot of embossed steel, aluminum and plastic upon entering industrial automation and light assembly firm Morrell Group. A soldier, of sorts, reminiscent of the red-armored Master Chief from the popular Xbox video game Halo. But instead of battling for…

Some people want stock in exactly one company. Others want stock in one *type* of company. ETFs are for the latter — each ETF is made up of several investments in different underlying stocks or other securities.

Charmin, Tide, Gillette, Swiffer... Your pandemic grocery list = Procter & Gamble's pandemic winners list. In October, the consumer packaged...

While the full ramifications of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's pandemic policies remain unknown, it is possible to estimate some of the costs. Recent employment data from the federal government shows that the second lockdown that started in November, the "Pause to Save Lives," led to significant job…

Michigan's recycling landscape is gray, not green, with a recycling rate that lags far below the national average.

The only thing separating Kelley Miller from living in a nursing home is a registered nurse and aide caring for her around-the-clock inside the 54-year-old quadriplegic woman's home in the mid-Michigan village of Mulliken. Paralyzed from the neck down in a 2011 car accident, Miller relies on a…

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NEW DELHI (AP) — India put oxygen tankers on special express trains as major hospitals in New Delhi begged on social media on Friday for more supplies to save COVID-19 patients who are struggling to breathe. More than a dozen people died when an oxygen-fed fire ripped through a coronavirus ward in a populous western state. India’s underfunded health system is tattering as the world’s worst coronavirus surge wears out the nation, which set a global record in daily infections for a second straight day with 332,730. India has confirmed 16 million cases so far, second only to the United States in a country of nearly 1.4 billion people. India has recorded 2,263 deaths in the past 24 hours for a total of 186,920.

Searches for the phrase, 'When is the housing market going to crash?' are up 2,450% over the past month.

The Federal Reserve is proudly politically independent. That makes key discussions around climate change and racial inequity a balancing act.

The company, Bundled, hires workers with disabilities through the Dearborn-based nonprofit Services To Enhance Potential to create the gift packages.

Ford Motor Co. CEO Jim Farley said the worsening semiconductor shortage has prompted "perhaps the greatest supply shock" he's ever seen, as auto dealer lots dry up and the company juggles production shutdowns across the globe. Speaking to Automotive News Group Publisher KC Crain as part of…

Despite new U.S. jobless claims reaching the lowest point since the pandemic began more than a year ago, claims in Michigan rose last week. For the week ending April 17 in Michigan, 21,861 filed new unemployment claims, up from 16,470 the week prior. Nationally, 547,000 filed new claims last…

With a strong push from taxpayers, Southwest Airlines is the first major U.S. airline to report a profit since the pandemic started, and airlines executives say that the industry is on course to recover from a financial crisis caused by the pandemic. Southwest Chairman and CEO Gary Kelly said Thursday that his airline has seen steady improvement in U.S. leisure-travel sales since mid-February. He credited rising vaccinations and falling new cases of COVID-19. “We believe the worst is now finally behind us," Kelly said.

Though it was expected, the news still jarred Wall Street

The Detroit Public Schools Community District is offering an incentive to teachers and other employees who prove they've taken a COVID-19 vaccine