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Facebook pledged to change the world with a new cryptocurrency. Instead, lawmakers opposed, regulators balked, and partners fled.
State Department officials say they are trying to level the playing field between the two nations’ diplomatic corps.
The National Retail Federation expects holiday sales to rise as much as 4.2%, to about $730 billion
A proposed new agreement on how countries should tax multinational corporations wouldn’t just target tech companies that are mainly based in the U.S.
A proposed new agreement on how countries should tax multinational corporations wouldn’t just target tech companies that are mainly based in the U.S.
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The bottom half of all U.S. households have 32% less wealth than in 2003. The top 1% have more than twice as much as they did then.
Presidential candidate Andrew Yang says his universal basic income policy would prepare people for the 21st-century economy: "We need to wake America up to the fact that it is not immigrants that are causing these [job] dislocations, it's technology." #WSJFuture
The Labor Department released its proposal to create a new type of apprenticeship that would be run by business groups, colleges and other entities, rather than the federal government.
How much you have to earn to be in the 1%: $506,000 in New York $438,000 in California $263,000 in Mississippi
The obesity epidemic costs the world $2 trillion a year, the McKinsey Global Institute says
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