SAN FRANCISCO — California workplace safety officials have fined a guide company that was leading backcountry skiers down a mountain in February when an avalanche was triggered, killing nine members of the group in the deadliest avalanche in the state’s modern history. The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, or Cal/OSHA, issued $151,300 in
NEW YORK — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still has an Alzheimer’s disease program. Congress appropriated $41 million to it this year. There’s just no one staffing it. Then there’s the agency’s Office on Smoking and Health. Congress allocated $246 million for that. Its staffers were cut, too. Same for the epilepsy program.
A proposal slated by Pauline Hanson to allow Australians to withdraw more from their superannuation would “decimate” the retirement income of millions of Australians, Treasurer Jim Chalmers warned this morning. “[Superannuation] is a really important part of our economic security and retirement incomes for Australian workers,” Chalmers told Seven’s Sunrise. Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers.Alex Ellinghausen
You probably know a woman supporting an unemployed man. Maybe you’ve been that woman. What used to be an embarrassing secret has quietly become a macroeconomic data point, and now the Federal Reserve has the receipts. As of early 2026, women held more payroll jobs than men in the United States. This has happened twice
The stock market has been hot but the job market has been cool, potentially leading some older workers to simply head for the exits sooner than they expected. Friday’s jobs data showed that the overall labor force participation rate ticked down to 61.4% in July, the lowest since early 2021 when the economy was still
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has blamed rising rents and low wages on Labor’s migration policies in a sweeping attack on Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, as she accuses the government of planning to bring in an additional million migrants over the next four years. “Tony Burke isn’t cutting migration … Labor is lying again.