A major economic bill headed to the president has “game-changing” incentives for the nuclear energy industry, experts say, and those tax credits are even more substantial if a facility is sited in a community where a coal plant is closing.
The layoffs are the latest sign of the unrelentingly tough times in the newspaper industry, which has been steadily shrinking for more than a decade as more advertising shifts from print to digital and readers turn to other online outlets for information.
Federal regulators are looking at drafting rules to crack down on what they call harmful commercial surveillance and lax data security.
The gunman placed his laptop in the oven at his apartment with a can of butane before departing for the shooting, police have said. The oven was on and set to a high temperature.
The changes are driven by a recognition that an estimated 95% of Americans 16 and older have acquired some level of immunity, either from being vaccinated or infected, agency officials said.
Applications for jobless aid have risen in five out of the last six weeks, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
Inflation at the wholesale level still jumped 9.8% in July compared with a year earlier, suggesting that inflation will remain at painful levels for months to come.
Before celebrating by splurging on a fancy trip, travelers should be aware that July’s average ticket was still 27.7% higher than in July of last year.
Nearly one in five students “have not mastered foundational reading skills by the end of third grade,” according to data from IREAD, an Indiana Department of Education reading assessment given to third graders.
Rental prices nationwide are up nearly 15% from a year ago and almost 25% from 2019, according to the real estate company Zillow.
Wednesday’s report raised hopes that a modest slowdown in inflation might enable the Federal Reserve to raise short-term interest rates by less than had been anticipated when it meets in late September.
Inflation is going to add more than $1 billion to the U.S. Postal Service budget, necessitating a request for another rate increase in January, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said Tuesday.
Thanks largely to falling gas prices, the government’s inflation report for July, to be released Wednesday morning, is expected to show a small slowdown from the 9.1% year-over-year figure in June, which was the highest in four decades.
Two people familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the Big Ten was looking for a seven-year deal worth $380 million per year to broadcast its football and basketball games from ESPN, and the network declined.
The deal could have major implications for Indiana’s economic development efforts as it works with SkyWater Technology Inc. to open a $1.8 billion semiconductor production facility in West Lafayette.
After the disruption of online learning, first-year college students are arriving arrive on U.S. campuses unprepared for the demands of college-level work, experts say.
A tax credit of up to $7,500 could be used to defray the cost of an electric vehicle under the Inflation Reduction Act now moving toward final approval in Congress. But the auto industry is warning that the vast majority of EV purchases won’t qualify for a tax credit that large.
The pharmaceutical giant continues to invest some of the cash influx reaped during the COVID-19 pandemic. The drugmaker has announced deals valued at a total of nearly $19 billion, counting debt, since late last year.
Some think delivery demand could drop further. Chase Design, a consulting firm, says its surveys show the number of U.S. shoppers who plan to use grocery delivery “all the time” has fallen by half since 2021.
The estimated $740 billion package—passed Sunday by the Senate and heading to the House—is full of party priorities.
