- Robust U.S. employment growth expected in March, jobs deficit remains large (Reuters) – The Labor Department’s closely watched employment report on Friday is also expected to show people, mostly women, wading back into the labor market.
- Wall Street Weekahead: High-flying market to take cues from infrastructure plans, upcoming earnings (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s massive infrastructure proposal and the upcoming corporate earnings season could offer investors fresh insight on the sustainability of a rally that has taken stocks to all-time highs.
- American Airlines rebukes Texas voting restrictions (The Hill) – “Earlier this morning, the Texas state Senate passed legislation with provisions that limit voting access. To make American’s stance clear: We are strongly opposed to this bill and others like it,” the airline, which is based in Fort Worth, Texas, wrote in a statement on Thursday.
- Exclusive: Apple’s Tim Cook says voting “ought to be easier than ever” (Axios) – Cook, an Alabama native with a lifelong interest in civil rights, joins condemnations of Georgia’s new voting law. “The right to vote is fundamental in a democracy. American history is the story of expanding the right to vote to all citizens, and Black people, in particular, have had to march, struggle and even give their lives for more than a century to defend that right.”
- We moved our company culture online (and it worked!) (Utah Business) – Due to the stresses of the pandemic and stay-at-home orders, the employees at eLearning Brothers needed to feel connected and supported at work more than ever. They had to find alternatives – and they did!
- Surprise jump pushes weekly jobless claims back above 700,000 (Washington Post) – The Labor Department’s weekly unemployment tally wasn’t the dip economists expected