Tim Pearce

Trump’s Labor Department Backtracks On Obama-Era Stance On Gig Businesses

The Department of Labor (DOL) issued an “opinion letter” Monday recognizing a gig business’s workers as contract labor, a favorable…

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California Utility’s Plan To Prevent Wildfires Will Shut Power To 5 Million People

PG&E, California’s largest utility, is considering shutting off power to as much as an eighth of Californians during times of…

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Robots Track, Fire Thousands Of Amazon Employees Every Year, Report Suggests

Amazon warehouse workers are monitored by tracking systems that measure each employee’s productivity, issue warnings for workers that lag and…

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Young Americans Are Still Flocking To College Despite A Ton Of Open Jobs

The rate of high school graduates enrolling in higher education increased from 2017 to 2018 despite record levels of open…

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Is Tesla On Its Way To Crashing And Burning? Electric Car Company Posts Huge Losses In 2019

Tesla’s first quarterly earnings report of 2019 showed the company took a massive financial hit after losing a $7,500 electric…

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Union Strike Costs Northeast’s Stop And Shop Supermarket $100 Million

The owners of Stop & Shop, the largest grocery chain in New England, are expecting to take a roughly $100…

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IG Launches Ethics Investigations Into Six Senior Interior Department Staff

The Inspector General for the Department of the Interior is investigating ethics complaints made against six senior staff members at…

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Sri Lanka Says Easter Bombings Were ‘Retaliation’ For Christchurch Shooting

The terrorists who carried out the Sri Lanka Easter bombings were likely acting in “retaliation” for a New Zealand mosque…

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Minimum Wage Hikes Are Costing California Jobs, Study Says

California’s minimum wage increase has cost the state thousands of jobs worth of growth in the state’s booming restaurant industry,…

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Michael Bloomberg Is Pumping Millions Into The UN’s Climate Arm After Trump Cut It Off

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg is donating $5.5 million to the United Nations to help meet the goals of the Paris Climate…

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Sri Lanka Blames Easter Bombings On Local Jihadis

Sri Lanka government officials are blaming National Thowheed Jamath, a local jihadist group, for a cooridinated series of attacks carried…

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More Than 750 Arrested At Climate Change Protests In London

Police in London have arrested more than 750 environmental activists protesting across the city in the past week in the…

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Obama-Era Judge Slams The Brakes On Trump Order To Open Fed Lands To Coal Mining

A federal judge in Montana delayed a Trump administration attempt to open up more federal lands to coal mining Friday,…

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Unions Have Lost Hundreds Of Thousands Of Members Since SCOTUS Decision On Forced Dues

Three of the largest public sector unions in the United States have lost hundreds of thousands of members and agency…

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North Korea Tests A ‘New-Type Tactical Guided Weapon,’ State-Run Media Claims

North Korea announced Wednesday that it has tested a “new-type tactical guided weapon,” the first such test since the failed…

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