It was 62 years ago that President Lyndon B. Johnson made food stamps — now known as SNAP benefits — a permanent government program. But significant changes are coming.
Best Buy announced this week that it’s raising its outlook for the fiscal year. This follows a second quarter that saw the retailer’s comparable sales increase 4.1%.
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States are spending rural health dollars on tech startups, betting that untested companies will succeed where doctors have vanished and hospitals have collapsed.
Dick’s Sporting Goods, which acquired Foot Locker last year, lowered its outlook for the shoe store, citing “challenging conditions in the athletic footwear marketplace.”
In Akron, Ohio — once the tire capital of the world — the collapse of the rubber industry offers a stark preview of what AI-driven job losses could mean for government tax revenue.
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