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States Predict 80% Slump in Auto Sales

Industry-wide predictions are worse than the drop seen during the Great Recession.

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GE Furloughs Jet Engine Workers

In this Friday, March 27, 2020, photo provided by NASCAR, safety splash shields are made at the NASCAR Research and Development Center in Concord, N.C.

NASCAR Engineers 3D Printing PPE

Open-Source, DIY Face Shield

In this Nov. 11, 2014 photo, Ron Hudgins welds a 2015 Ford F-150 cab at the Dearborn Truck Plant in Dearborn, Mich.

Major Autos Push for Factory Restart

Snack Maker Keeps Farmers, Amazon Moving

Their cheese snacks are keeping the paychecks flowing for 250+ employees and local dairy farmers, but will that matter to the Shark Tank panel?

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General Mills Allowing Office Employees to Work in Plants

The company's new staff support actions allow healthy office workers to help in its factories and include enhanced benefits for plant employees.

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Ultra Precise Shaft Torque Transducers

They offer extreme measurement accuracy with fast installed response.

President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington on Wednesday, April 1.

Trump Invokes DPA for Ventilators, Slams 3M

The administration named 3M and six other companies in the DPA, and later lashed out at 3M on Twitter.

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Judge Tosses Shareholder Suit

The judge’s ruling indicates that Lululemon’s board negotiated a separation deal with CEO Potdevin after confirming that he had engaged in “pervasive misconduct.”

Workers gather near the Unit 2 reactor which is undergoing re-fueling during a tour of the Browns Ferry nuclear plant in Athens, Ala. U.S.

Longer Shifts at Nuclear Plants

The shift extensions would allow workers to be on the job for up to 86 hours a week.

In this Nov. 7, 2019, file photo, the first panels of levee border wall are seen at a construction site along the U.S.-Mexico border, in Donna, Texas.

Border Towns Fear Virus Spread

Despite a clampdown on people’s movements in much of the country, groups of workers travel every day from camps in New Mexico to build President Donald Trump’s border wall.

'For Sale By Owner' and 'Closed Due to Virus' signs are displayed in the window of Images On Mack in Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich., Thursday, April 2, 2020.

Lost Your Job? What Now?

Workers who have lost their jobs or income through no fault of their own should immediately file a claim for unemployment.

In this Dec. 20, 2018, file photo Juul products are displayed at a smoke shop in New York.

Feds to Breakup Altria-Juul Deal

The complaint alleges that Altria agreed not to compete against Juul in return for the $13 billion stake in the company.

A closed sign is shown at Romeo & Juliet Furniture and Appliances with an empty parking lot in Detroit, Thursday, April 2, 2020. The coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak has triggered a stunning collapse in the U.S. workforce with 10 million people losing their jobs in the past two weeks and economists warn unemployment could reach levels not seen since the Depression, as the economic damage from the crisis piles up around the world.

US Sheds 701,000 Jobs

Last month's actual losses were likely larger because the government surveyed employers before the heaviest layoffs hit.

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Toilet Paper Truck Catches Fire

The load of toilet paper 'burned extensively.'

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DoL Clarifies Paid Leave Implementation

The FFCRA reimburses private US employers that have fewer than 500 employees with tax credits for the cost of providing paid leave related to COVID-19.

Zantac tablets at a pharmacy in Miami Beach, Fla.

FDA Demands Recall

It was determined that a contamination issue with the medications poses a greater risk than previously thought.

In this Nov. 4, 2019 file photo cargo cranes are used to take containers off of a Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation boat at the Port of Tacoma in Tacoma, Wash.

US Trade Gap Falls

The Commerce Department said Thursday that the gap between what the U.S. buys and what it sells abroad dropped 12.2%.

Joe Tavi, Bloom Energy senior director of manufacturing, holds a refurbished ventilator as he kneels beside fuel cells, Wednesday, April 1, 2020, in Sunnyvale, Calif.

Can You Fix Ventilators?

California had a bunch of broken ones, and the governor had asked if San Jose-based Bloom Energy could repair them so coronavirus patients could breathe.

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Toyota, China's BYD Partner Up

Toyota and BYD “determined that there is much we can learn from one another’s expertise,” the companies said in a statement.

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6.6 Million Seek Unemployment

Applications for unemployment benefits generally reflect the pace of layoffs.

Top 5: April 2020

A video of the top five products of the month for April 2020.

In this Sept. 27, 2018 file photo, robots weld the bed of a 2018 Ford F-150 truck on the assembly line at the Ford Rouge assembly plant in Dearborn, MI.

US, World Mfg. Contracted in March

Economists had expected a bigger drop in the US manufacturing index but predict it will signal more weakness in April.

Medical workers wearing personal protective equipment due to COVID-19 concerns pause for rest before loading bodies onto a refrigerated container truck functioning as a makeshift morgue, Tuesday, March 31, 2020, at Brooklyn Hospital Center in Brooklyn borough of New York.

N95 Mask Imports Reach US

It's not nearly enough to meet demand.

Julie Dolan, chair of her town's Broadband Committee, poses with her computer on the steps of her family's rural home in Sandwich, N.H., Thursday, March 26, 2020.

The Struggle of Quarantine Without Internet

Although efforts to extend broadband service have made progress in recent years, tens of millions of people are still left out.

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Ethanol Industry Aided in Making Sanitizer

Hospitals are desperately searching for hand sanitizer, and ethanol plants that can make large batches of alcohol have offered to help.

Clade Karim takes a take out order over the phone for Falafel House in downtown Grandin on Monday night, March 30, 2020.

Relief Loans Possible by Friday

The loans are available to small businesses ranging from sole proprietors and freelancers to companies with up to 500 employees.

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GE Workers Protest Aviation Layoffs

Employees want idle factory space to be deployed in the fight against COVID-19.