Business, Economics and Jobs

May 24, 2019

When he was a real estate mogul, Trump earned some national recognition by taking aim at Japan back in the 1980s.

Washington activist wins a Goldman Environmental Prize for defeating a dangerous oil-by-rail project

May 23, 2019

When a major export terminal project threatened to bring 360,000 gallons of crude oil per day through the Fruit Valley neighborhood of Vancouver, Washington, along the Columbia River, Linda Garcia led a long fight against the project.

Business, Economics and Jobs

'A classic tale of human greed': California caregivers earn as little as $2 an hour

Reveal

May 22, 2019

Throughout California, many of the workers in elderly care facilities face inhumane conditions, wage theft, and abuse form their employers. Despite efforts from the state, many of these crimes go unpunished and workers are left with few options.

Business, Economics and Jobs

These caregivers work in conditions ‘akin to modern-day slavery.’ In California, wage theft is ‘rampant.’

Reveal

May 22, 2019

Inspection records available online show no indication that licensing officials considered debtors’ outstanding wage theft judgments when they visited the facilities in recent months, Reveal found.

Business, Economics and Jobs

Your ‘recycled’ laptop may be incinerated in an illegal Asian scrapyard

PRI's The World

May 21, 2019

This is hardly what Americans envision when they drop off glitchy laptops or broken printers at their local recycling drop-off center. Yet, what fuels these Southeast Asian scrapyards is junk from afar — typically more affluent places such as Europe, Australia and the US.

'Hi, I want a job in Antarctica': Meet the first female researchers to blaze the path

PRI's The World

May 20, 2019

In the spring of 1969, 19-year-old Terry Tickhill Terrell walked into the Institute of Polar Studies at OSU and told the secretary, “Hi, I want a job in Antarctica.”

Google suspends some business with Huawei after Trump blacklist

Reuters

May 20, 2019

Google has suspended business with Huawei that requires the transfer of hardware, software and technical services except those publicly available via open source licensing.

Environment

Inside the long war to protect plastic

The Center for Public Integrity

May 16, 2019

Single-use plastic is clogging oceans and landfills. The industry that makes it has waged a decades-long campaign to keep it on the market.

Technology

US blacklists China's Huawei as trade dispute clouds global outlook

Reuters

May 16, 2019

The Trump administration announced plans to hit Chinese telecom giant Huawei with severe sanctions on Wednesday, adding another incendiary element to the US-China trade dispute.

Global Politics

Rebels hope to kill off May’s Brexit deal in ‘last-chance’ vote

Reuters

May 15, 2019

Brexit-supporting rebels in British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party said on Wednesday they would vote down her European Union divorce deal when she brings it back to parliament next month. Defeat in the vote would likely spell the end of May's divorce deal and probably her premiership.

Business, Economics and Jobs

Long before bashing China on trade, Trump teed off on Japan

Washington activist wins a Goldman Environmental Prize for defeating a dangerous oil-by-rail project

'A classic tale of human greed': California caregivers earn as little as $2 an hour

These caregivers work in conditions ‘akin to modern-day slavery.’ In California, wage theft is ‘rampant.’

Your ‘recycled’ laptop may be incinerated in an illegal Asian scrapyard

'Hi, I want a job in Antarctica': Meet the first female researchers to blaze the path

Google suspends some business with Huawei after Trump blacklist

Inside the long war to protect plastic

US blacklists China's Huawei as trade dispute clouds global outlook

Rebels hope to kill off May’s Brexit deal in ‘last-chance’ vote

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