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It's not just convicts. Russia is forcing its African migrants and students to fight for them in Ukraine.
Russian officials have threatened not to renew the visas of African migrants and students if they d…
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
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Immigration has helped the hot US economy and labor market, but there's a risk of oversupply, Fitch says
The surge of immigration into the US is supporting the blowout jobs market, but eventually that cou…
Filip De Mott
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America's Gen Zers are buying TikTok hauls that could be made with forced labor
Lawmakers say inadequate scrutiny of fast-fashion brands Temu and Shein "all but guarantees" that s…
Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins
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The sharp rise in US immigration explains why the labor market is so loose and the housing market is so tight, JPMorgan says
Immigration has added close to 3.3 million people to the US in 2023 and 2024. JPMorgan explains the…
Filip De Mott
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Temu reportedly thinks shoppers should be blamed if they buy goods from the site that were produced by forced labor
Lawmakers said there is an extremely high risk that Temu's supply chains are contaminated with forc…
Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins
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The forever labor shortage is pitting parents and their childfree coworkers against each other
Childfree workers are sometimes left to pick up the slack of parents. They blame their employers.
Juliana Kaplan
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Strippers are suing an Alabama club for $100K, saying it forced them to share tips with other workers
In a lawsuit, exotic dancers at an Alabama strip club said they were forced to share tips and pay "…
Joshua Zitser
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In potential leadership shakeup, Amazon Labor Union agrees to hold new elections for top positions
The Amazon Labor Union will hold new leadership elections, which could see the departure of the cur…
Katherine Long
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The pandemic forced many women to leave their jobs. Hybrid work is bringing them back.
Women are rapidly rejoining the labor force, boosting the economy.
Allie Kelly
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2 Tennessee restaurants had to pay $270,000 to servers who were forced to share tips with dishwashers, the labor department says
The Nashville, Tennessee restaurants made servers give $5 in tips to dishwashers on Fridays and Sat…
Grace Dean
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China rolled out a new measure of youth unemployment. It shows the nation's labor market is still a mess, think tank says
"The lower result though, is still about three times the overall unemployment rate in China (5.1 pe…
Filip De Mott
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Fewer Americans were working or looking for work in April, and it means the labor shortage has no end in sight
Even as recovery chugs along, it seems like some Americans may not be fully sold on job hunting jus…
Madison Hoff,Ben Winck,Julian…
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Russia's war in Ukraine has drained it of labor — it lacks nearly 5 million workers this year, report says
Russia's economy was short nearly 5 million workers this year. Many skilled workers have been draft…
Filip De Mott
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The truth behind America's labor shortage: We're not ready to rethink who is a good worker
Employers are still complaining that they can't find enough workers. Experts say they're discrimina…
Madison Hoff
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23 major brands suspected of illegally sourcing products made by forced labor in China
And it's not just cars. Many more household brands have been suspected of having links to forced la…
Jacob Zinkula
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Russia is wrestling with a labor crisis — and is making it even worse by sending highly-skilled workers to war
Around 900,000 Russians have fled the country since the Ukraine invasion, causing a workforce crisi…
Tom Porter
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AI models like GPT-4o could give some blue-collar jobs a leg-up and force white-collar workers to adapt
OpenAI's new multimodal model could help plumbers and electricians do their jobs more effectively, …
Erin Snodgrass
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What dream job? Gen Z and millennials are being forced to confront a difficult job market.
It's tough out there for Gen Z and millennial workers, who are likely to be impacted the most by a …
Jennifer Sor
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The AI boom could force you to enter the gig economy
Generative AI's adoption could lead to even more Americans working in the gig economy.
Jacob Zinkula
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Tesla, Mercedes, and GM are being probed by US Senate on whether they use forced Uyghur labor
The chair of the Senate Finance Committee Ron Wyden sent letters to eight major car makers asking t…