BUSINESS NEWS
- New jobs report shows 7.6 million jobs added in April as layoffs and people quitting their jobs both fell
by The Associated Press, Paul Wiseman on June 2, 2026 at 3:06 pmThe Labor Department reported 6.9 million jobs in March and had forecasted only 6.9 million in April.
- ‘We will fly again’: Blue Origin says rocket explosion spared vital launch pad parts
by The Associated Press, Marcia Dunn on June 2, 2026 at 2:59 pmNASA awarded the company a contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars just two days before last week's explosion.
- Trump replaces Gabbard with housing chief Bill Pulte, grandson of the founder of one of the country’s largest homebuilders
by The Associated Press, Josh Boak on June 2, 2026 at 2:44 pmPulte is a loyal support of Trump and has publicly criticized then-Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for not cutting the central bank's interest rates.
- Iran war has cost U.S. families $100 billion between increased military funding and higher oil prices, says Moody’s
by Eleanor Pringle on June 2, 2026 at 2:43 pm"With the saving rate about as low as it ever goes ... [consumers] will have little choice but to rein in their spending, weighing further on the already sagging economy."
- Hundreds of teens are flooding job ads to work at ice cream shops and swimming pools as they grapple with the worst summer job market in 80 years
by Emma Burleigh on June 2, 2026 at 2:28 pmHigh schoolers haven’t faced this tough of a summer job market since 1948. Rising inflation, higher oil prices, and a slow hiring market are to blame.
- Social Security unraveling: 7,100 workers sacked, performance metrics retired, disability claims falling
by Katie Savin, Callie Freitag, Matthew Borus, The Conversation on June 2, 2026 at 1:39 pmThe administration touts a 73% drop in call wait times. Researchers who found terminally ill clients dying before paperwork clears.
- AI is turning workers into superhumans. Their leadership teams haven’t kept up
by Adrienne Down Coulson on June 2, 2026 at 1:30 pmEmployees are scaling productivity at record speed while leadership teams remain stuck in decades-old decision-making structures.
- Jeff Bezos’ 25-year-old stress cure is to ‘make the first phone call, or send the first email’— and a recruiter says it lands even harder in 2026
by Orianna Rosa Royle on June 2, 2026 at 7:00 amWith economic uncertainty, AI anxiety, and a brutal job market weighing on workers, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has a counterintuitive theory on stress: and the answer is not your workload, it's your inaction.
- Erin Brockovich, the activist who defeated a utility giant and inspired a Julia Roberts film, is pushing data centers to be more transparent
by Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez on June 1, 2026 at 5:56 pmBrockovich’s new data center tracking project has collected nearly 4,000 complaints nationwide.
- Current price of oil as of June 1, 2026
by Joseph Hostetler on June 1, 2026 at 12:29 pmWhen oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why.