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Aug 6, 2019

GM workers’ tough choice: relocate or get laid off

Plus: Toni Morrison’s legacy, China’s new label as a currency manipulator and what it’s like to “curate” snacks at Google.

Toni Morrison’s impact on the publishing industry
by Kimberly Adams
Patrick Kovarik/AFP/GettyImage
The celebrated author worked to make the American publishing industry more inclusive.
Stay or move? Laid-off GM workers face a tough choice
by Tracey Samuelson
GM says it has jobs for nearly every one of the 2,800 laid-off workers, but they must decide whether they’re willing to relocate.
RePlanet shuts down amid trying times for recycling industry
by Scott Tong and Associated Press
Jon Gordon/Marketplace
One of the largest recycling companies in California just declared insolvency and shut down all of its bottle and can redemption centers.
U.S. farmer on worsening trade dispute: “It’s like a knife in my heart”
by Kai Ryssdal and Bennett Purser
Scott Olson/Getty Images
Farmers hoped for a resolution to the trade war, then everything got worse.
The Fed enters the instant-payment fray
by Justin Ho
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
The Federal Reserve has plans for a new instant payment network, set to launch in 2023 at the earliest. But critics say the Fed’s waiting too long, given that a rival instant payment network already exists.