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Anton Petrus/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Growing recession alarm at the outset of this year warned of a coming business slowdown and significant job losses — until a government report last month showed that unemployment stands at its lowest level in more than 50 years. A couple weeks later, in mid-February, fresh retail sales data […]

The Good Brigade/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Social media platform TikTok will set a default 60-minute screen time limit for users below age 18, the company announced on Wednesday. When the one-hour limit expires, young users will be prompted to enter a password that allows them to continue viewing the app, the company said. Young […]

Kinga Krzeminska/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — When Alyn Carroll received information that her Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will soon be substantially decreased, her emotions almost overtook her. “I wanted to cry,” Carroll, 56, told ABC News. “I wanted to cry because I just started feeling comfortable where I could budget every week a certain […]

Caíque de Abreu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Eli Lilly will cut the price of its most commonly prescribed insulin products by 70% and expand a program that caps patient costs at $35 per month, the company said on Wednesday. “While the current healthcare system provides access to insulin for most people with diabetes, it still […]

Scott Olson/Getty (BELVIDERE, Ill.) — Over a thousand automotive workers in Illinois will clock out of a Jeep assembly plant for the last time Tuesday, stopping what a local union president described as the “heartbeat” of the small city. In December, multinational automotive giant Stellantis announced that they would be “idling” their Belvidere, Illinois, assembly […]