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The article focuses on the struggles of the people in Storm Lake, Iowa, who are facing global competition, closure of plants, and automated agriculture. Particular focus is given to immigrants filling the jobs with low wages, the animosity by white conservatives towards immigrants for unwanted cultural diversity and inconveniencing pubic service, and the developing technology adopted by meat-processing plants as the main factor for decreasing wages.

The article reports on the minimal economic impact of U.S. stock market fluctuations on the income of most U.S. households.

The article discusses the U.S. government report that the U.S. economy lost 33,000 jobs in September 2017 as impacted by hurricanes in Texas, Florida and neighboring states, the first monthly decline in employment in seven years. Topics include the drop in the jobless rate to 4.2%, decline in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, and the move of direct-to-consumer e-commerce company Radial to hire 27,000 people to work in its warehouses in the U.S.

The article offers analysis on labor market and effects of unemployment in economy of the U.S., Topics discussed include views of Jim O'Sullivan, chief U.S. economist for High Frequency Economics, on the same; strategies of the Federal Reserve towards handling of unemployment rate; and reactions of Michael Stull, senior vice president at the staffing company Manpower North America, on employee wages.

The article discusses the benefit of public-private partnerships in infrastructure spending in the U.S. Topics discussed include getting advantage in decreasing the amount of debt of governments' projects through private industry's involvement, ease in congestion through four-lane toll road installed on the highway, and offers comments from David Besanko, a professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

The article discusses a report from the U.S. government on a record lowest for the unemployment rate. Topics addressed include increase in interest rates, challenges faced by the retail industry, and comments from economist Jed Kolko and Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi. Charts and graphs representing the statistics of unemployment in U.S. are also included.

The article reports that the steel industry is expecting the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to help improve the industry through his trade actions that would benefit American steel makers. Comment from Thomas Gibson, president of the American Iron and Steel Institute, chief executive John Ferriola of Nucor, and Giff Daughtridge of Huger are presented.

The article reports on the rising interest rates which have caught lenders and borrowers off guard since the election of Donald Trump as president of the U.S.

The article discusses the author's claim that slower job growth in America may cause the U.S. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Fed) to hold off on its plan to raise the nation's benchmark interest rate as of September 2016. The U.S. economy is addressed in relation to a report issued by the country's Labor Department which states that 151,000 jobs were added in August 2016. America's unemployment rate and wage gains are also assessed.

The article discusses how various American states such as Nevada are fighting to be known as the top location for legally shielding the assets of the richest people in the country. Las Vegas, Nevada-based estate planning attorney Steven J. Oshins is mentioned, along with American estate taxes and a divorce involving the wealthy software entrepreneur Dan Kloiber. The efforts to protect rich Americans from creditors and tax collectors are assessed, along with trusts and tax havens.

The article discusses the author's claim that strong hiring in the U.S. is causing jobless individuals in the country to begin to look for employment again, and it mentions the American government's release of its February 2016 jobs report which indicates that employers added 2442,000 employees during the month. Fear and anxiety are addressed in relation to economic bubbles, America's securities industry (Wall Street), and a U.S. recession. America's unemployment statistics are assessed.

The article covers a report from the U.S. Labor Department indicating that 126,000 jobs were added in March 2015, marking a decline in hiring and reflecting overall economic conditions. Noted causes of the decrease include a drop in oil prices and a decline in consumer spending in construction due to winter weather conditions in the Northeast and Midwest. Unemployment rates, hourly wages, and hours worked discussed in the report are also examined.

The article discusses considerations of pricing Nobel medals for sale, highlighting the planned auction of economist Simon Kuznets 1971 Nobel model. Topics addressed include the significance of Kuznets' contributions as an economist, as well as the auction of the Nobel prizes of other recipients such as scientists Francis Crick and James D. Watson.

The article discusses a trend of declining wages for workers at United States factories, highlighting resultant economic problems for the U.S. middle class. Topics addressed include a lack of wage increases for factory workers despite U.S. government policies aimed at adding manufacturing jobs, as well as the impact of the use of temporary workers in U.S. automobile factories.

The article presents the theories of Harvard University economics professor Alvin Roth. Roth's research focuses on the role social repugnance and taboos play in the regulation of what goods and services may be legally sold. Roth notes that societal taboos change constantly, making the common practice of banning them economically illogical. Other researcher note that money is a relatively new invention in human history, putting it in conflict with older norms of behavior.

The article focuses on a controversy surrounding the appointment of John Podhoretz as editor of the conservative political magazine "Commentary." Podhoretz is the son of Norman Podhoretz, who was the magazine's editor from 1972-2007. Conservative writers are split on the appointment, which some see as pure nepotism. "Commentary" faces a problem with dwindling circulation and a decline in its influence in conservative politics.

This article reports on how some Nobel laureates in economics disapprove of some of the winners of the Nobel prize. Some feel that the work of winners is either too ideological, too preoccupied with theory and mathematics, or too narrowly focused on problems facing Wall Street. Some would like to see prizes given to those who concentrate on global issues such as inequality, poverty, and the environment.

The article discusses the study conducted by the researchers at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth which reveals the educational achievement gap between the poorest and wealthiest children in terms of lost economic growth and tax revenue in the U.S.

In the Albanian canon, a 15th-century handbook detailing the rules of revenge that is still in circulation, a man's relatives are expected ''to take their blood back'' if he is shot. In Iran a death can be compensated with blood money: 100 camels in early Islam; thousands of dollars today. A girl's life is worth only half of a boy's. So is an eye; a tooth, one-twentieth. In Sicily there is an oral tradition describing various methods of revenge: tying a man's feet to his neck so that when he moves, he strangles himself; handcuffing a victim to a bonfire of olive wood; throwing him into a sty with hungry pigs. Today one can see vengeance on a mass scale embodied in the person of Radovan Karadzic, the former leader of the Bosnian Serbs, who is sitting in a Belgrade jail, charged with war crimes, including overseeing the massacre of nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys in 1995 at Srebrenica. At least some of those deaths were claimed by Bosnian Serb officials at the time as revenge for previous killings of Serbs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article offers information on issues related to arts and society as of July 11, 2013 including the benefit concert supported by the Global Poverty Project which deals with the living standards of the world's poor, the lawsuit filed by scholars and writers for the New York Public Library, and the strong opening of J. Cole's music album entitled "Born Sinner" which gained 297,000 sales.

The article offers business news briefs as of May 1, 2017 on topics including personal income and spending, raising of interest rate by Federal Reserve and rise in earnings of Volkswagen.