by Olivia Olander | Mar 17, 2020 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — Reading a map with her back to the Washington Monument, Anne Basanese, a grandmother on vacation from Massachusetts, prepared herself to respond to the novel coronavirus by cutting her trip a day short. “We pushed our luck coming here and we’re...
by Rupa Palla | Mar 12, 2020 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON – The economic relationship between the United States and India has grown under the leadership of President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi, but the future of trade between the countries is uncertain. The U.S. goods and services...
by Joshua Irvine | Mar 3, 2020 | Business, SOTU2020, Topics
WASHINGTON –The federal government’s top lawyer argued Tuesday to reduce the power of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau in a case before the Supreme Court that could strike down the independent regulatory agency as unconstitutional. Solicitor General Noel...
by Gregory Svirnovskiy and Janea Wilson | Jan 22, 2020 | Business, Campaign 2020, Featured
WASHINGTON – Democratic presidential candidate and former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg emphasized the need to improve America’s infrastructure in a speech Wednesday at the Winter Meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. In 2017, the American Society of Civil...
by Zamone "Z" Perez and Benjamin Rosenberg | Jan 15, 2020 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — The last three Senate committees considering the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement approved it Wednesday, paving the way for a Senate vote on the Trump administration’s trade pact to replace NAFTA. Six Senate committees had to sign off on the massive...
by Olivia Olander and Rupa Palla | Jan 15, 2020 | Business, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON – Women and people of color should once again receive a tax incentive to purchase broadcast TV and radio stations to diversify station ownership that is now substantially under 10 percent, members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee said Wednesday at...
by Leslie Bonilla | Feb 15, 2019 | Business, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s controversial nominee to lead the Federal Housing Finance Agency told senators Thursday that he wanted to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two mortgage finance companies meant to make the housing market more stable and...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Jan 31, 2019 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON –– Economic redistribution is the solution to global inequality, according to International Monetary Fund researchers who gathered Thursday at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. “We’ve seen protest after protest over the past 20 years in...
by Gabrielle Bienasz | Jan 30, 2019 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON —The Paycheck Fairness Act was reintroduced in the 116th congress Wednesday by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and other Democrats from the House and Senate. If passed, it would protect employee’s ability to discuss their salaries, require employers...
by Priyanka Godbole & Kristina Karisch | Mar 7, 2018 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s recent announcement of tariffs on steel and aluminum likely will have consequences for two American industries – whiskey and Harley Davidson motorcycles, related only because they come from states that are home to Senate...
by Kristina Karisch | Feb 22, 2018 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON —The United States needs to adjust its labor laws and regulations that are holding back growth of an expanding technology-based economy, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta said Thursday. Speaking to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Technology Engagement Center’s...
by Priyanka Godbole | Feb 22, 2018 | Business
WASHINGTON – Otto Madrid is a former temporary protected status holder turned small business owner and citizen who fled El Salvador in 2001 because of devastating earthquakes. After arriving in the U.S., he settled in a Virginia suburb of Washington and got a job as a...
