er of unemployed people per job opening hovered at record-low levels in February, a new sign of the difficulty employers face in hiring and retaining workers.
President Joe Biden released his $5.8 trillion budget for fiscal year 2023 on Monday, including significant funding for the police, in an effort to set himself apart from progressives in his party who have advocated for defunding the police. Biden also called for more defense spending and a new minimum tax targeting the rich.
Republicans in the House are working on their own version of the Contract With America, at least so says the GOP Speaker who helped pen the original version.
Layal Aswad was already exhausted by Lebanon’s devastating two-year economic collapse. Now, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sends food and energy prices soaring even further, she finds herself struggling to put food on the table for her family of four.
The United States plans to accept up to 100,000 Ukrainians fleeing Russia's invasion and is pledging $1 billion in new humanitarian aid, the Biden administration said on Thursday after a month of bombardments touched off Europe's fastest-moving refugee crisis since the end of World War Two.