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Exclusive: Kamala Harris wants to give every unemployed worker $8,000 for job training

A new bill would mark a major federal investment in worker training, and would also help underemployed workers.

By Li Zhou

The Green New Deal is fracturing a critical base for Democrats: unions

National labor leaders oppose the Green New Deal but some state unions endorse it. That’s a challenge for presidential contenders.

By Umair Irfan

Bitcoin is an energy hog. Where is all that electricity coming from?

By Umair Irfan June 18

Goldman Sachs’ CEO says the real test for Uber is how it does over time

By Emily Stewart June 11

Can US companies solve the Trump tariff problem by manufacturing in the US? It’s complicated.

By Emily Stewart June 10

California is cracking down on the gig economy

By Alexia Fernández Campbell May 30

Chick-fil-A’s many controversies, explained

By Gaby Del Valle May 29

Wow Air’s collapse has seriously affected Iceland’s economy

By Gaby Del Valle May 24

The controversy over WeWork’s $47 billion valuation and impending IPO, explained

By Matthew Yglesias May 24

McDonald’s workers are on strike. 3 presidential candidates joined them.

By Alexia Fernández Campbell May 23

How AirPods became an unlikely status symbol

By Kaitlyn Tiffany May 23

A Silicon Valley startup is trying to rebrand payday loans

By Gaby Del Valle May 22

Airbnb is partnering with 23andMe to send people on “heritage” vacations

By Gaby Del Valle May 22

McDonald’s workers are striking and suing the company — in the same week

By Alexia Fernández Campbell May 21

The US government’s battle with Chinese telecom giant Huawei, explained

By Emily Stewart May 21

Why is art so expensive?

By Gaby Del Valle May 20

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse explains why big banks should get into cryptocurrencies

By Eric Johnson May 20

Connecticut is about to get a $15 minimum wage

By Alexia Fernández Campbell May 17

Fossil fuels are underpriced by a whopping $5.2 trillion

By Umair Irfan May 17

Texas may pass a “Save Chick-fil-A” bill

By Gaby Del Valle May 16

Abigail Disney just gave a searing indictment of American capitalism

By Alexia Fernández Campbell May 15

The world’s richest institutions invest in fossil fuels. Activists are changing that.

By Umair Irfan May 15

Grocery startup Instacart says it’s fixed its payment problems. This gig worker says it hasn’t.

By Chavie Lieber May 14

The Facebook free speech battle, explained

By Jane Coaston May 14

Uber had a terrible first day as a public company. It might not matter at all.

By Theodore Schleifer May 10

Delta told its workers to buy video games instead of unionizing

By Gaby Del Valle May 10

Bernie Sanders’s campaign staff just signed a historic union contract. Here’s what’s in it.

By Alexia Fernández Campbell May 10

How new research is shaking up the debate about a $15 minimum wage

By Dylan Scott May 8

Elizabeth Warren wants to break up Big Tech. Tim Cook says keep Apple out of it.

By Emily Stewart May 6

The big business of loneliness

By Laura Entis May 6

The push to break up Big Tech, explained

By Matthew Yglesias May 3

Facebook bans Alex Jones, Infowars, Louis Farrakhan, and others it deems “dangerous”

By Emily Stewart May 2

Instagram has a counterfeit fashion problem

By Chavie Lieber May 2

Labor Department comes out against gig workers being classified as employees

By Chavie Lieber May 1

Workers in Mexico just won the right to organize real labor unions. Trump helped.

By Alexia Fernández Campbell May 1

Ro Khanna and the tensions of Silicon Valley liberalism

By Ezra Klein May 1

Should chopped-up cauliflower be advertised as “rice”? Not according to rice farmers.

By Gaby Del Valle April 30

More than 100 LuLaRoe sellers have filed for bankruptcy

By Chavie Lieber April 30

Rent-to-own furniture is being rebranded for millennials

By Gaby Del Valle April 29

Amazon says it will roll out one-day Prime shipping

By Gaby Del Valle April 26

People buy millions of unsafe products every year. Here’s why recalls are harder than they should be.

By Chavie Lieber April 26

Beyond Meat is going public. Investors are betting on a new future for food.

By Kelsey Piper April 25

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