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August 4, 2022
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell after a speech at the central bank's annual symposium at Jackson Lake Lodge in Grand Teton National Park, Aug. 26, 2022.
Fed Chair Says Higher Rates Unlikely to Cause Deep Recession
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Prospective employers and job seekers interact during during a job fair in West Hollywood, Los Angeles, Sept. 22, 2021.
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August 25, 2022
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Office of Defects Investigation has opened a query into seat belt pretensioners on certain 2020-2022 Kia/Hyundai vehicles, saying that they may rupture or explode.
Kia/Hyundai Seat Belt Pretensioners Under Investigation
August 12, 2022
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A compromise allows two coal-fired plants to remain open until 2045.
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This undated photo shows the former State Line Generating Plant in Hammond, Ind. In 2018, New York City-based Star America Infrastructure Partners announced a 105,000 square-foot data center on the Lake Michigan site of the shuttered power plant. Illinois Rep. Tom Demmer, R-Dixon, helped negotiate a GOP demand that state budget include a package of tax incentives to lure to Illinois large data centers which house information technology equipment and store, manage, and disseminate digital data for companies. Illinois would join 30 other states in offering such inducements.
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Illinois sat up and noticed when Apple announced in 2017 that it would build a $1.4 billion data center west of Des Moines, Iowa.
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State Sen. Michael Hastings, D-Tinley Park, right, gets a fist bump from Sen. Toi Hutchinson, D-Chicago Heights, after delivering his remarks on Senate Bill 1, a bill to raise the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025, during debate on the Senate floor at the Illinois State Capitol, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019, in Springfield, Ill.
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IL Senate Backs $15 Minimum Wage
The last statewide bump came in 2010 and brought the hourly rate to $8.25.
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In this May 16, 2006 file photo, employees and contractors work inside Quad Cities Generating Station at the Exelon Nuclear plant in Cordova, Ill. Exelon Corp. says it will shut two Illinois nuclear plants after the Illinois Legislature declined to act on its request for financial support. The Chicago-based power provider said Thursday June 2, 2016 that it will close the Clinton Power Station in Clinton on June 1, 2017, and the Quad Cities Generating Station in Cordova on June 1, 2018.
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The two plants have lost a combined $800 million since 2009, countering consumer groups' complaints of 'bailout.'
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