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New Rules Protect Pregnant Workers, But Red States Sue Over Abortion Provisions

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 07/09/2024 - 5:00am

Natasha Jackson was four months pregnant when she told her supervisor she was expecting. It was 2008, and Jackson was an account executive at a rental furniture store in Charleston, South Carolina — the only female employee there.

“I actually hid my pregnancy as long as I could because I was scared about what could happen,” she said.

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The Number Of Job Openings Has Declined Sharply In Every State

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 07/09/2024 - 4:00am

The number of job openings has declined sharply in every state since 2022, better aligning the numbers of unfilled jobs and people seeking work.

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‘Frustrating’ Partisan Stalemate: The New Normal For Farm Bills?

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 07/09/2024 - 3:00am

WASHINGTON — The stalemate over the current farm bill may be solidifying a new era in farm politics as it joins the last three farm bills in a trend of delays and partisan division — a contrast from the legislation’s history of bipartisanship.

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Mishandled Bodies, Mixed-Up Remains Prompt Tougher Funeral Home Regulations

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 07/09/2024 - 2:00am

The headlines were the stuff of nightmares.

One Colorado funeral home owner let the body of a woman decompose for two years in a hearse parked outside a house he rented, while hoarding the cremated remains of dozens of others inside.

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Soft-Serve Survivors: How Zesto Endured In Nebraska After Its Ice-Cream Empire Melted

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 07/02/2024 - 8:00am

A pickup truck pulls into the drive-thru at Zesto in Omaha’s Florence neighborhood. Opened in 1953, the shop is Omaha’s only original Zesto location still in business.
(Brock Stillmunks / Flatwater Free Press)

On the hottest day of July 1948 in Norfolk, a second-page ad in the local newspaper presented readers with a flavorful way to cool off.

The recently opened Baldridge Zesto Shoppe touted its “new and different … high quality dairy product” that contained 6% butterfat but was “not ice cream.”

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Petition Signatures Turned In For Nebraska Paid Sick Leave Ballot Measure

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 07/02/2024 - 6:00am

LINCOLN — The 250,000 Nebraskans who work at least 30 hours a week but don’t have paid sick leave from their employers will likely get the chance to help secure the benefit at the ballot box.

Organizers of Paid Sick Leave for Nebraskans announced Thursday that they were turning in 138,000 voter signatures aimed at putting a minimum level of sick leave into state law.

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Federal Reserve's Preferred Inflation Gauge Shows Price Pressures Easing Further

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 07/02/2024 - 5:00am

WASHINGTON (AP) — A measure of prices that is closely tracked by the Federal Reserve suggests that inflation pressures in the U.S. economy are continuing to ease.

Friday's Commerce Department report showed that consumer prices were flat from April to May, the mildest such performance in more than four years. Measured from a year earlier, prices rose 2.6% last month, slightly less than in April.

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Walgreens To Take A Hard Look At Underperforming Stores, Could Shutter Hundreds More

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 07/02/2024 - 4:00am

Walgreens is finalizing a plan to fix its U.S. business that could result in closing hundreds of additional stores over the next three years.

CEO Tim Wentworth told analysts Thursday morning that “changes are imminent” for about 25% of the company's stores, which he said were underperforming. The drugstore chain currently runs more than 8,600 in the United States.

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Fireworks Sales Have Fallen Back To Earth After Years Of Explosive Growth – Here’s Why

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 07/02/2024 - 3:00am

It’s almost the Fourth of July – a day of parades, barbecue and, of course, fireworks. But while parades and barbecues are still very popular, shockingly, this year fireworks are less so.

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Ready to Consider Business Ownership of Your Own?

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 07/02/2024 - 2:00am

Essentially, there are two main entrepreneurial pipelines – those who’ve always dreamed of owning their own business and those who eventually consider a career transition. At the same time, there are three ways to launch a business of your own. You can start from scratch (provided your idea is good enough), buy an existing business, or consider franchising your way to an entrepreneurial life.