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Documents: Plant owners ‘willfully’ used ineligible workers

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Six of seven Mississippi chicken processing plants raided Wednesday were “willfully and unlawfully” employing people who lacked authorization to work in the United States, including workers wearing electronic monitoring bracelets at work for previous immigration ...

Business Briefs for Aug. 5

Hoffman & Brobst add two to staff Hoffman & Brobst, Certified Public Accountants, announce the additions of Amy Denson and Kirsti Bakker to the professional staff of its firm. Denson has an associate’s degree in accounting from Minnesota West. She has accounting experience in ...

How Trump’s latest China tariffs could squeeze US consumers

WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest tariffs President Donald Trump plans to impose on Chinese goods would cost U.S. households an average of $200 a year, some economists estimate, and would start to bite consumers and retailers just as the holiday shopping season begins. That cost would come on ...

July jobs report shows solid gains amid trade frictions

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers slowed their hiring in July but still added a solid 164,000 jobs to an economy that appears poised to extend its decade-long expansion. The unemployment rate remained at 3.7% for a second straight month, the government said Friday. Average hourly earnings ...

S&P 500 posts its worst week of 2019 as trade tensions flare

Investors rattled by President Donald Trump’s latest escalation in his trade war with China drove another round of selling on Wall Street Friday. The latest losses marked the fifth straight drop for the S&P 500 and the worst week of the year for the market just seven days after the ...

Taking on a challenge

TYLER — It’s deja vu all over again. Tyler used to have a coffee shop in town, Break Time, but it closed a number of years ago. Now there will be another place to enjoy a cup of freshly-brewed java on main street, Deja Brew, which had its grand opening July 22. The new business is located ...