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America’s new blue-collar job boom is one nobody saw coming — and it’s just getting started

Compass Datacenters CEO Chris Crosby says the Red Oak, Texas, campus proves data centers need electricians, welders and carpenters over degrees.

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California Prepares to Ban Quartz Countertop ProductionThe state would be the first to block an industry that has been connected to a deadly lung disease in workers.

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OSHA investigating Gotion in Manteno after worker hospitalized with burnsFederal workplace safety inspectors are investigating the Gotion battery storage plant in Manteno after a worker was hospitalized with burns following an accident there.

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AI vs. the rest of the economyData: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, FactSet; Chart: Axios/Matt Phillips; Note: Data center construction includes construction costs, such as labor, materials, profits of contractors, architectural and engineering work and miscellaneous overhead, interest and taxes. Does not include servers, racks, chips or memory. More and more, it seems as if there's…

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“I Had to Get My Mind Right”: The Challenges to Loving Relationships After Being Laid Off by DOGELottie Joiner After the federal firings, Black women felt betrayed and disillusioned. One longtime federal worker learned from experience the importance of community. The post “I Had to Get My Mind Right”: The Challenges to Loving Relationships After Being Laid Off by DOGE appeared first on The Nation .

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Vance’s Fraud Task Force Moves Against Abusive Uses Of Foreign Labor, And The Media Miss The PointThe administration is ending the ability of corporations that rely heavily on foreign workers to turn guest laborers into permanent residents.

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Ro Khanna hears Fuyao workers claim unsafe conditions, union threatsRep. Ro Khanna convened a roundtable with former Fuyao Glass America factory workers in Dayton, Ohio, after the company refused to comply with a Congressional oversight inquiry.

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