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...And here’s what I’m keeping tabs on today and over the weekend: Economic data: The US Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics releases monthly import and export statistics and the University of Michigan...
...That’s a key part of the argument being made in a new petition for trade relief and state support of the US shipbuilding industry under a so-called section 301 case filed by the United Steelworkers union...
...In the US the Federal Reserve is publishing its third Beige Book of the year, while at the end of the week the Bureau of Labor Statistics issues the state unemployment data for March....
...This month, the US State Department gave its approval for the potential sale of 24 Super Hercules military cargo aircraft to Australia, a deal worth almost $6.4bn....
...“God didn’t bring us this far to leave us,” said Jennifer Bates, an Amazon worker at the plant, and one of the leaders of a campaign for her colleagues to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store...
...Today the US Department of Labor releases data for the week ending March 12. (FT, WSJ) Earnings round-up The world’s largest maker of athletic gear, Nike, has results today....
...Mr Acosta was picked by President Donald Trump in 2017 to head the Department of Labor....
...A Department of Labor spokeswoman said on Monday: “We will defer to DOJ [the Department of Justice] for comment.”...
...The Department of Labor recently delayed until mid-2019 the implementation of key provisions of its fiduciary rule that applies to transactions with retirement account clients....
...In a court filing on Wednesday, the US Department of Labor said it had submitted a proposal to postpone elements of the so-called “fiduciary rule” for an additional 18 months....
...Instead of stopping the fiduciary rule, the Department of Labor will review whether it needs to be changed or scrapped after it goes into effect....
...The Commerce Department also reports revised wholesale inventories numbers....
...His most concrete action so far has been a presidential memorandum directing the Secretary of Labor to review the fiduciary rule....
...The lawyer, who became a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, the law firm, one year after leaving his job at the SEC, is particularly keen to halt the Department of Labor’s fiduciary rule....
...Tom Perez, Labor secretary, said the administration would vigorously contest the suit....
...(TPM) “I’m a Republican, and there’s not any doubt in my mind how I’ll vote…I don’t believe Hillary Clinton is qualified to be President of the United States.” – Donald Rumsfeld, former defence secretary...
...Methodology: The Middle and the Rest There are any number of ways to define the middle class — it can be a state of mind, a reflection of whether someone owns their own home, or whether they do white-collar...
...The new rule, from the Department of Labor, was due to take effect in April next year....
...Figures released last week by the Department of Labor show that the US added more jobs in 2014 than it has since 1999....
...In a recent study entitled “The Polarization of Job Opportunities in the US Labor Market,” the Brookings Institution concluded “the phenomenon of employment polarization is not unique to the United States...
...Like Hilda Solis, the outgoing labour secretary, Mr Perez is Hispanic, the son of immigrants from the Dominican Republic....
...Separately, Mr Obama announced that his Labour secretary, Hilda Solis, would be stepping down....
...“2013 is our window of opportunity,” said Eliseo Medina, secretary-treasurer of the SEIU, one of the US’s biggest unions, representing healthcare and public service employees....
...Hilda Solis, the labour secretary, said on CNBC that the claim was “ludicrous”....
...In a striking intervention, the FT says, the US secretary of state said: “In the wake of an attack like this, in the fog of war, there’s always going to be confusion. She told CNN....
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