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Savannah is a former Marketplace reporter based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her reporting centered on Indigenous communities and rural economies.
In addition to overseeing the U.S. Mint and Fort Knox, Treasurer Lynn Malerba will run the Treasury’s new Office of Tribal and Native Affairs.
The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index ticked up in August, but only slightly.
The “I’d prefer a full-time gig, but I can’t find one” measure can give us a sense of how much slack or unmet potential there is in the labor market.
Several states in the West had 60 days to figure something out, and the government hasn’t offered much guidance.
Rising costs and slower-growing incomes cut small town households’ discretionary income by 38% in the last year, pressuring a way of life.
Extreme weather events drive down cotton harvests and push up prices for the more scarce commodity.
Some funds are seeing a rise in their budgets, but there’s also been a sharp rise in demand for services.
A federal program to aid farmers of color has been changed to omit references to race.
The recently signed climate bill allots almost $1 billion to help the parks system deal with natural disasters and the chronic lack of staff.
The hope is that over-the-counter sales could make the devices more affordable to millions of Americans who would benefit from them.
