Economics

Michigan public health officials expect to receive 29 percent fewer doses of Pfizer Inc.'s COVID-19 vaccine next week, an unexplained drop in supplies on just the second full week of the state's mass inoculation of health care workers on the front lines of the pandemic. Lynn Sutfin, a…

John Stossel and David Henderson discuss how Canada fixed its debt problem.

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The Federal Reserve said Wednesday that it will keep buying government bonds until the economy makes “substantial” progress

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For many Michigan families, mental illness and developmental disabilities are a fact of life. Their daily activities include providing high levels of personal care for a loved one and, very often, they find they can't do it all on their own.That is where our state's direct care workers come in…

The Fed could disappoint at least some market pros who are expecting immediate changes in its bond buying program.

The U.S. Postal Service predicts this week will be the busiest time of the season for mailing, shipping and delivery. It’s also turning out to be a season

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The Federal Reserve’s policymakers face an unusual conundrum as they meet this week

Imagine for a moment that your alarm goes off at 6 a.m. and it's time to go to work. But somehow you can't get out of bed. You wait. You pick up your phone and see that the person that was supposed to be your arms and your legs to get you out of bed, cleaned up and dressed and ready to make a…

German sportswear maker Adidas AG said on Monday it is considering strategic options, including a potential sale, for Reebok, 15 years after it bought the U.S.-focused brand to take on archrival Nike Inc on its home turf.

Apple announced on Tuesday that it won’t be shipping the four new iPhone 12 models with EarPods or a power adapter, as a way to prevent them from ending up in landfills. In France, however, the new devices will have earphones in the coffret, likely thanks to a quirk of local laws, as spotted by MacRumors.

Fulton County Schools is providing a temporary pay incentive to substitutes through the end of the school year.

Doctors and nurses are lauded as front-line heroes in the battle against COVID-19, but direct care workers who help people at home are a less visible and relatively unheralded part of the health care ecosystem. The pandemic magnifies their long-simmering undervaluation.Direct care workers —…

Silicon Valley has been the epicenter of the tech industry for decades, starting in 1938 when Bill Hewlett and David Packard started tinkering in a Palo Alto garage.

Socialist-minded millennial heirs are trying to live their values by getting rid of their money.

Virtual assistants are one click—but often one continent—away. A new industry for bringing order to our work lives could shift the order of our workforce.

The government wants to break up the world’s biggest social network. Internal company emails show why.

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The COVID-19 recession is likely to sideline a minimum wage hike for Michigan workers in 2021, the state announced Friday. The minimum wage was supposed to increase to $9.87 an hour and $3.75 for tipped employees under a 2018 law legislators passed to sidestep a ballot drive that successfully…

Legislation pending in Michigan that would limit direct vehicle sales in the state has narrowed to remove an exemption for Tesla, a change that major automakers say softened their earlier opposition to the bill. Its chances of passing, however, are not certain in the waning days of Michigan's…