About 40 current and former employees of the outdoor equipment store REI in Grand Rapids, Mich., regularly communicate using the messaging app GroupMe. On July 6, they received a jarring note from a colleague.
“Hey guys just so everybody knows I tested positive for Covid-19,” the employee wrote. “I was
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday said it would impose new tariffs on $1.3 billion worth of French goods, including cosmetics, soap and handbags, in retaliation for a French tax that largely hits American technology companies, escalating a trade dispute that threatens to further damage the global economy.
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A chorus of the Federal Reserve’s top officials said on Tuesday that the United States economy was probably past its pandemic-era low point, although they signaled that the recovery ahead was likely to be long and uncertain.
Jerome H. Powell, the
Companies began sending in products to restock Amazon’s warehouses. But with attendance down and more items coming in, workers could not replenish the supplies fast enough. Trucks backed up, waiting days to be unloaded. The company offered shift after extra shift, raised wages $2 an hour and paid double the
