by Kristen Axtman | Oct 25, 2023 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON – A Senate panel on Wednesday sought to address a key issue affecting working parents: the lack of a federal paid leave program. Although no specific bill was debated during the Senate Finance Committee hearing, several Democratic lawmakers cited their...
by Casey He | Oct 24, 2023 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON – Congress needs to act on immigration reform for high-skilled workers to fill jobs in the growing U.S. semiconductor industry, a Department of Commerce director and industry experts said on Tuesday. “We are imposing a self-inflicted wound on our country...
by Cate Bikales | Oct 19, 2023 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — The U.S. government’s current response to pandemic-related fraud is outdated and not fit to fight back against dynamic foreign adversaries, experts warned at a House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee hearing on Thursday. One solution could be emerging...
by Casey He | Oct 19, 2023 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON – Artificial intelligence and cybersecurity researchers urged lawmakers on Thursday to enact tougher legislation to protects American companies and their intellectual property from cyberattacks, especially those from China. “The Chinese Communist Party,...
by Matthew Vega | Oct 19, 2023 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — Small business owners told lawmakers on Thursday that new regulations enacted by the Department of Labor are hurting their productivity and claim the rules have led to bureaucracy and mounted costs which push their businesses out of the market. Mario...
by Jessica Ma and Kristen Axtman | Oct 17, 2023 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — As Congress continues to weigh how to regulate how college athletes are being paid, University of Florida gymnast Trinity Thomas was among those urging lawmakers to create national standards regarding how college-athletes profit from their personal...
by Casey He | Oct 11, 2023 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON – The head of marketing at Booking.com, the online travel agency, testified in federal court in Washington on Wednesday about Google’s dominance in the search engine and paid search markets – and how companies like his heavily depend on it. This bench...
by Pavan Acharya | Oct 10, 2023 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday took up a rare case involving maritime law that could increase state or policyholder power over the federal law that historically governs maritime disputes. Maritime insurance contracts are governed by federal admiralty law,...
by Julian Andreone | Oct 10, 2023 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a case that is being closely followed by corporations and whistleblower rights groups across the country. It will determine whether whistleblowers must prove an employer acted with a “retaliatory intent”...
by Matthew Vega | Oct 10, 2023 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — When American consumers deposit checks, they often wonder why it can take days to access their money even with all the modern technology that should be able to verify and transfer funds quickly. The Federal Reserve has introduced a new system to fix this,...
by Cate Bikales | Oct 6, 2023 | Business, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON — She has been called a deal killer, an anti-capitalist and even a giant slayer. But as one of the Biden administration’s main antitrust enforcers, Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), said her main goal is to protect free and fair...
by Jessica Ma | Oct 4, 2023 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court mulled over the question of standing on Wednesday — whether under the Americans with Disabilities Act, individuals can sue places of accommodation for lacking disability accessibility information, even if they don’t intend to stay. The...
