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FILE - The likeness of Benjamin Franklin is seen on U.S. $100 bills, Thursday, July 14, 2022, in Marple Township, Pa. Many small businesses don’t offer a retirement plan to employees, since it can be quite costly and complicated. But the Secure Act 2.0 passed by Congress in late 2022 and being slowly rolled out is designed to make it easier for small businesses to offer retirement plans. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

The Secure Act 2.0 offers options for small businesses who want to offer retirement plans

By Mae Anderson - Associated Press

Dartmouth's Robert McRae III (23) takes a pass from Jackson Munro (33) as Duke's Jaylen Blakes (2) defends during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Durham, N.C., Nov. 6, 2023. A ruling that gives the Dartmouth basketball team the right to unionize has far-reaching implications for all of college sports — from the quaint, academically oriented Ivy League to the big-money football factories like Michigan and Alabama. But it’s not time to cut down the nets just yet. (AP Photo/Ben McKeown, File) **FILE**

Dartmouth men’s basketball team wins union vote

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Six-packs of Bud Light, Budweiser and Michelob Ultra are displayed at a liquor store, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, in Fairfield, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Teamsters ratify a 5-year labor deal with Anheuser-Busch, avoiding strike

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FILE - A Lufthansa aircraft is parked at the airport in Munich, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. Two German unions on Monday again called on their members — German airline Lufthansa's ground staff and German rail operator's Deutsche Bahn train drivers — to go on strike this week following ongoing negotiations over wages and working conditions. Thousands of flights and trains are expected to be canceled Thursday and Friday — the two days that German train drivers’ union GDL and Ver.di called for the strikes. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

Thousands of flights and trains will be canceled again this week in Germany with new strikes

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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack speaks during a news conference, Thursday, June 29, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. Hundreds of communities around the country will receive more than $1 billion in federal money to help them plant and maintain trees under a federal program that is intended to reduce extreme heat, benefit health and improve access to nature. Vilsack will announce the $1.13 billion in funding for 385 projects at an event Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023, morning in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) **FILE**

Whistleblower: Federal agency’s HQ is ‘empty’; Vilsack says work is getting done

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

An Anheuser-Busch Companies, LLC facility is seen, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, in Cartersville, Ga. Budweiser brewer Anheuser-Busch has reached a contract agreement with the Teamsters union that avoids a strike at its U.S. plants. The union had threatened a strike at the brewer’s 12 U.S. plants if an agreement on a new five-year contract wasn’t reached by 11:59 p.m. EST Thursday. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Teamsters reach tentative deal with Anheuser-Busch

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Pages from the United Healthcare website are displayed on a computer screen in New York on Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. On Thursday, Change Healthcare, a massive U.S. health care technology company owned by UnitedHealth Group, announced a ransomware group claimed responsibility for a cyberattack that has threatened the security of patients’ information and paychecks for medical workers, but appears not to be impacting appointments or procedures. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison)

Large U.S. health care tech company hacked, leading to billing delays and security concerns

By Devna Bose - Associated Press

Cans of Bud Light beer are seen on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019, in Washington. On Friday, April 7, 2023, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly claiming Anheuser-Busch fired its entire marketing department in response to its partnership with a transgender influencer and the rollout of LGBTQ Pride-themed Bud Light cans that feature various pronouns. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

Teamsters reject new Anheuser-Busch offer as strike looms

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Starbucks employees and supporters link arms during a union election watch party in Buffalo, N.Y., on Dec. 9, 2021. Starbucks and the union organizing its U.S. workers said Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024, they have agreed to begin talks with the aim of reaching labor agreements. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex) **FILE**

Starbucks to start contract negotiations with union

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

United Auto Workers members walk in the Labor Day parade in Detroit, Sept. 2, 2019. More than 1,500 employees at Mercedes-Benz's Tuscaloosa, Alabama, plant have signed union cards with the United Auto Workers, the largest step yet in the union's effort to organize nonunion auto shops. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Majority of workers at largest U.S. Mercedes plant sign with UAW

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

FILE - Job seekers line up for a career fair in Oak Brook, Ill., July 2, 2009. While it seems increasingly unlikely the U.S. economy is headed for recession, small businesses still face headwinds like higher costs and difficulty retaining qualified workers. But owners say they're optimistic as 2024 gets underway, according to a new survey from American Express. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

Small business owners optimistic for growth in 2024

By Mae Anderson - Associated Press

Experts say Boeing’s steps to improve safety culture have helped but don’t go far enough

By David Koenig - Associated Press

Vice Media shutters website, lays off hundreds

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, bottom center, arrives in the House chambers to deliver his State of the Commonwealth address at the Capitol, Jan. 10, 2024, in Richmond, Va. The Democratic-controlled Virginia Senate and House of Delegates on Thursday, Feb. 22, each passed their own proposed version of the next two-year state budget, documents lawmakers will start to work from to fashion a compromise spending plan to send to Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, file)

Virginia lawmakers send Youngkin bills to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour

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Superintendent Jesus Jara speaks after the board of trustees voted to oust him from his position during the Clark County School Board meeting at CCSD Greer Education Center, on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021, in Las Vegas. The embattled superintendent overseeing Las Vegas-area schools will step down Friday, Feb. 23, 2024 after more than five years at the helm of the nation's fifth-largest school district. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP, File)

Jesus Jara, embattled superintendent overseeing Las Vegas-area public schools, steps down

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Superintendent Jesus Jara speaks after the board of trustees voted to oust him from his position during the Clark County School Board meeting at CCSD Greer Education Center, on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021, in Las Vegas. The embattled superintendent overseeing Las Vegas-area schools will step down Friday, Feb. 23, 2024 after more than five years at the helm of the nation's fifth-largest school district. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP, File)

Embattled superintendent overseeing Las Vegas-area public schools steps down

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Maryland Del. Joseline Pena-Melnyk, a Democrat who chairs the Maryland House Health and Government Operations Committee, speaks in favor of a bill to enable people to buy health insurance through the state's health care exchange regardless of their immigration status, with approval of a federal waiver during debate on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, in Annapolis, Md. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)

Maryland House OKs bill to enable undocumented immigrants to buy health insurance on state exchange

By Brian Witte - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks at Culver City Julian Dixon Library in Culver City, Calif., Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

Biden’s latest equity push could backfire and reduce salaries

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he departs after speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, Saturday, March 4, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

RNC scores first Teamsters donation in 20 years after Trump meeting

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

A worker heads into the JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley, Colo., on Oct. 12, 2020. Packers Sanitation Services Inc., or PSSI, one of the country's largest food safety cleaning service providers employed more than 100 children as young as 13 in dangerous jobs at 13 meat processing plants in eight states, including JBS, the U.S. Department of Labor said Friday, Feb. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Labor Department finds 2 dozen children working in slaughterhouses

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times