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Supported by Government Shutdown Shakes Stability of Jobs That Are Often the Best Around Image Verla Bloomfield handles claims for the Social Security Administration in Tulsa, Okla. Ms. Bloomfield, who has a master’s degree, prefers the stability of her federal job to more highly paid work in the private sector.CreditCreditJoseph ...

Supported by Trump Has Promised to Bring Jobs Back. His Tariffs Threaten to Send Them Away. Image At Billco Products in Holland, Mich., which makes furniture for hotels, costs have increased 10 percent since the tariffs were put in place, but the company has not been able to pass them ...

As Jobs Go Unfilled, U.S. Employers Vie to Hire Foreign Laborers Image Jose Vera Ramirez is among the immigrant seasonal workers employed by Phil Steinhauer’s landscaping company in Centennial, Colo. Businesses were chosen by lottery to be able to hire workers under the H-2B visa program.CreditBenjamin Rasmussen for The New ...

Image A graduating student from the JetBlue program from CAE Aviation Academy in Mesa, AZ.CreditBrad Torchia for The New York Times SectionsSkip to contentSkip to site index More Jobs Will Be Cleared for Takeoff. Aspiring Pilots Are Ready. As big airlines face a wave of retirements, a fresh batch of ...

In About-Face on Trade, Trump Vows to Protect ZTE Jobs in China Image ZTE said last week that it had halted “major operating activities” because it could not get needed American components. It has 75,000 employees and says it has business in more than 160 nations.CreditJohannes Eisele/Agence France-Presse — Getty ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — The anxiety and seething anger that followed the disappearance of middle-income jobs in factory towns has helped reshape the American political map and topple longstanding policies on tariffs and immigration. But globalization and automation aren’t the only forces responsible for the loss of those reliable paychecks. So ...

Jerome H. Powell, the new Federal Reserve chairman, on Friday visited a Chicago incubator for industrial start-ups, highlighting the role of manufacturing in the recovery. Lyndon French for The New York Times The rapidly escalating trade conflict with China has upended the prevailing economic dynamic of falling unemployment and faster ...

Advertisement General Electric is racing to keep pace with seismic shifts in the global energy industry, as its new leadership moves to eliminate bloat and grapples with the fallout from earlier, ill-timed decisions. In one of the most visible moves, the company said on Thursday that it would cut 12,000 ...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Ellen Gaugler remembers driving her father to the Bethlehem Steel mill, where he spent his working years hauling beams off the assembly line and onto rail cars. When the Pennsylvania plant shut down about two decades ago, Ms. Gaugler thought it was the last time she or ...

From the mountain hollows of Appalachia to the vast open plains of Wyoming, the coal industry long offered the promise of a six-figure income without a four-year college degree, transforming sleepy farm towns into thriving commercial centers. But today, as King Coal is being dethroned — by cheap natural gas, ...