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Low-wage states with cheap housing dominated the post-pandemic jobs boom

June 3, 2024, 8:39am Business

More than half of the nation’s jobs created in the past five years have come in two states: Texas and Florida. Read story

Pharmacist George Tadross, takes care of a customer at MAC Pharmacy, Wednesday, May 29, 2024, in Cleveland. Pharmacists play a role in managing chronic diseases like diabetes and heart-related issues, which Black and Hispanic people are more likely to be diagnosed with.

As pharmacies shutter, some Western states, Black and Latino communities are left behind

Pharmacist George Tadross, takes care of a customer at MAC Pharmacy, Wednesday, May 29, 2024, in Cleveland. Pharmacists play a role in managing chronic diseases like diabetes and heart-related issues, which Black and Hispanic people are more likely to be diagnosed with.

June 3, 2024, 7:46am Business

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Southwest Airlines is back in court over firing of flight attendant with anti-abortion views

June 3, 2024, 7:45am Business

Southwest Airlines is set to return to federal court Monday in hopes of reversing an $800,000 award to a flight attendant who said she was fired for her anti-abortion views and a judge’s related order that the airlines’ lawyers take religious liberty training from a conservative Christian legal group. Read story

FILE - A Boeing 777X plane takes off at the Farnborough Air Show fair in Farnborough, England, on July 18, 2022. The cost of your next flight is likely to go up. That&rsquo;s the word from the International Air Transport Association, which held its annual meeting Monday June 3, 2024 in Dubai, home to the long-haul carrier Emirates.

Expect the cost of your airfare to continue to rise, an aviation trade group and industry heads warn

FILE - A Boeing 777X plane takes off at the Farnborough Air Show fair in Farnborough, England, on July 18, 2022. The cost of your next flight is likely to go up. That&rsquo;s the word from the International Air Transport Association, which held its annual meeting Monday June 3, 2024 in Dubai, home to the long-haul carrier Emirates.

June 3, 2024, 7:45am Business

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The cost of your next flight is likely to go up. Read story

(AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)

CEOs got hefty pay raises in 2023, widening the gap with the workers they oversee

(AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)

June 3, 2024, 7:44am Business

The typical compensation package for chief executives who run companies in the S&P 500 jumped nearly 13% last year, easily surpassing the gains for workers at a time when inflation was putting considerable pressure on Americans’ budgets. Read story

GameStop leaps in premarket as Roaring Kitty may hold large position

June 3, 2024, 7:42am Business

Shares of GameStop are soaring before the market open on Monday following speculation that the man at the center of the pandemic meme stock craze owns a large number of shares of the video game retailer that may be worth millions. Read story

This photo provided by the International Transport Workers&rsquo; Federation shows Mohammad Aisha, center, near the abandoned cargo ship MV Aman in Egyptian waters in March 2021. In 2021 reports surfaced that he was living alone on the ship, forced to swim to shore for food and water. Though he left the ship in 2021, the case is still working its way through the courts three years later. He has not yet been paid, the ITF said.

Takeaways from The Associated Press’ reporting on seafarers who are abandoned by shipowners in ports

This photo provided by the International Transport Workers&rsquo; Federation shows Mohammad Aisha, center, near the abandoned cargo ship MV Aman in Egyptian waters in March 2021. In 2021 reports surfaced that he was living alone on the ship, forced to swim to shore for food and water. Though he left the ship in 2021, the case is still working its way through the courts three years later. He has not yet been paid, the ITF said.

June 3, 2024, 6:01am Business

The United Nations over the last decade has logged an increasing number of crew members abandoned by shipowners around the world, leaving sailors aboard months and sometimes years without pay. Read story

Jennifer Morgan, aircraft maintenance inspector, posed for a photo on top of a plane in Hangar 5 at the Southwest Airlines Headquarters in Dallas on April 14, 2023.

Women are less than 3% of aviation maintenance technicians. Why?

Jennifer Morgan, aircraft maintenance inspector, posed for a photo on top of a plane in Hangar 5 at the Southwest Airlines Headquarters in Dallas on April 14, 2023.

June 3, 2024, 6:00am Business

Jennifer Morgan’s day at work at Southwest Airlines includes strapping herself to a harness and standing on top of a Boeing 737. Read story