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The US desperately needs skilled workers. But the community colleges that train them are woefully underfunded

CNN, UCLA, TIKTOK, @THEERIKACRUZ, UCLA, TIKTOK/@TheErikaCruz By Alicia Wallace, CNN Business As America seeks to train workers for the hundreds of thousands of new infrastructure jobs that are being created, it will have to lean heavily on community colleges. But these workhorses of workforce development are facing some infrastructure issues of their own. Pandemic-related declines

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The US desperately needs skilled workers. But the community colleges that train them are woefully underfunded

By Alicia Wallace, CNN Business As America seeks to train workers for the hundreds of thousands of new infrastructure jobs that are being created, it will have to lean heavily on community colleges. But these workhorses of workforce development are facing some infrastructure issues of their own. Pandemic-related declines in enrollment, particularly in hands-on skilled

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Why every Costco product is called ‘Kirkland Signature’

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Business Costco’s Kirkland Signature brand is perhaps America’s weirdest private label. You can put Kirkland Signature AA batteries alongside Kirkland Signature cashews in your shopping cart. It’s also shockingly successful. Kirkland raked in $58 billion in sales during Costco’s latest fiscal year, making up around a quarter of the company’s total

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‘Blockbuster’ jobs report suggests Fed can raise rates without tanking the economy, Austan Goolsbee says

By Matt Egan, CNN Business January’s shockingly strong jobs report suggests the US economy is healthy enough to withstand the Federal Reserve’s plans to raise interest rates in the coming months, former Obama economist Austan Goolsbee told CNN on Friday. “We had an honest-to-God blockbuster positive surprise of a job report. Hopefully, it’s a sign

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Surprisingly strong jobs report: America adds 467,000 positions in January

By Anneken Tappe, CNN Business America’s jobs recovery got an unexpected boost in January despite the Omicron variant spreading rapidly throughout the country. The economy added 467,000 jobs last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday, significantly better than most economists had expected. Restaurants and bars added more than 100,000 jobs. Positions in retail,

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Amazon is the anti-Facebook

By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business Amazon and Facebook’s Meta are two of the market’s biggest players. Both have come under pressure during a recent sell-off in tech stocks. But this morning, the direction of these companies and their stocks couldn’t look more different. What’s happening: Facebook’s earnings report triggered a 26% collapse in its stock

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