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  • Oct 10, 2018

    Japan expands use of foreign "interns" to address labor shortage

    Workers at the Tsuda Shoten fish plant in Kamaishi, Japan. About 10 percent of the workers are non-Japanese “interns” who come through a special government program.
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    The unemployment rate is just 2.4 percent in Japan; the country is filling the job gaps with a controversial program for foreign interns.

  • Oct 10, 2018

    Duke Energy CEO on the future of energy

    Lynn Good, president and CEO of Duke Energy, speaks at the KPMG Women's Leadership Summit in 2015 in Harrison, New York.
    Scott Halleran/Getty Images for KPMG

    The company's big challenge is keeping pace with technology.

  • Oct 10, 2018

    IMF forecasts slower global growth

    The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday it’s shaving off some of its earlier optimism about world economic growth over the next couple years. It has downgraded its growth forecast for this year from 3.9 percent to 3.7 percent, and for next year, the IMF has ticked the world’s growth down from 2.7 percent to 2.5 […]

  • Oct 10, 2018

    Is the Google Plus data breach a threat to Google’s business?

    Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has announced new privacy measures that include shutting down its social network Google Plus. The decision comes after news this week that Google exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of Google Plus users. We’re talking full names, email addresses, birth dates, profile photos and more. Google opted not to […]

  • Oct 9, 2018

    U.S. Census Bureau will be looking to hire field workers in a competitive labor market

    The U.S. Census Bureau says it needs to hire hundreds of thousands of workers to complete the 2020 census. But since the economy is in such good shape, with unemployment down to 3.7 percent in September, that hiring task may be a lot harder than it was back in 2010. And the census faces more […]

  • Oct 9, 2018

    How Nobel Prize winner Paul Romer redefined economics

    “I’ve been really disappointed that we just haven’t had the kind of political environment where we can think about speeding up technological progress,” Paul Romer said Monday.
    ERIC PIERMONT/AFP/Getty Images

    Economists comment on what makes Romer’s views unique.

  • Oct 8, 2018

    Nobel winner Nordhaus changed terms of climate debate

    Yale Professor William Nordhaus speaks during a press conference after winning the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences at Yale University on Oct. 8, 2018 in New Haven, Connecticut.
    Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images

    There’s a new report out on climate change science and it’s bleak. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, made up of thousands of scientists, finds the earth’s temperature has risen 1 degree Celsius — or 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit — since pre-industrial times. And if we don’t keep warming under 2 degrees? Well, the oceans could rise an […]

  • Oct 8, 2018

    Rising crude prices are kick-starting the Kansas oil industry back to life

    Tom Casey, a supervisor at Express Oil Service, checks in with his workers.
    Brian Grimmett/Kansas News Service

    Low oil prices hit the state's mostly small producers hard. As a barrel of oil goes up, the industry is hopeful profits will start flowing again.

  • Oct 8, 2018

    Young shoppers are giving the makeup industry a makeover

    Young shoppers are giving the makeup industry a makeover
    Mario Tama/Getty Images

    With big chains like Sephora and Ulta on the move, department stores are playing catch up.

  • Oct 8, 2018

    This handbag company is grappling with a new tariff reality

    Dagne Dover Co-Founders, Jessy Dover, Deepa Gandhi (center) and Melissa Mash at their New York headquarters.
    Courtesy of Dagne Dover

    "We are confident we'll be able to weather it, but it definitely has us making some tough decisions," said Deepa Gandhi, co-founder and COO of Dagne Dover, a handbag and accessories company.